Proposal work done for week 5 & 6 - Alpha available in Play Store 🥳

Presentation of work done

Announcements

I'm super stoked for this update as a lot of things have happened both regarding the progress on the Haveyoubeenhere app but also on the business side of things, guess what, I'm moving to Georgia (the country) to set up the company there!

Another big announcement is that we now have a first version on the Android Play Store as a super-duper-early developers alpha. Do keep in mind that this is a test version and not a final product. There will be bugs and features missing, however there will be changes coming all the time. We'll try to roll-out a new update bi-weekly or faster, but we're also tied a bit by how fast Google can review the updates.

If you want to jump right in: the link for the app in the play store 🥳

For those of you who think this is not experimental enough, reach out to me and I'll hit you up with the latest APK version.

Feedback

There is only one way for us to make the best travel social media app ever and that's by receiving and listening to feedback from all of you. Here is the list of features we're looking to get feedback on this time around. Please share your thoughts here in the comments or in our Discord.

The action of follow / unfollowing a user
The look and feel of "my feed" and "latest feed"
The process of creating a waypoint
The process of creating a post
The look and feel of a users profile
The process of liking and commenting on content

Bugs we are aware off

Profile stats don't update (fixed for next release already)
Options from vertical dot menu on a post don't work in a profile feed (work fine in latest and my feed)

New features

Profile + profile feed
Follow / unfollow users
Show feed with posts from users you follow
Search for users
Post to the Hive blockchain
Double tap post to like

Design

Finished profile design
Finished search design

Front end

Finished double tap to like animation
Finished profile + profile feed
Finished user search
Finished performance improvements (preloading some skia animations)
Finished improving image loading speeds
Finished improving visual feedback after user performs an action all over the app
Finished posting to Hive
Finished increasing tap-area for smaller icon buttons
Finished showing likers of a post
Finished possibility to zoom on images in posts (pinch to zoom)
Working on migrating to Flutter 2.0