Garage sales... my new app!

[okamitengu]

afternoon all,
i asked with bennoz, to check he was ok with me posting this...

so last year i built (with a small team) a mobile phone app, i call g-saler.

its been running since the end of November. the app itself is free, and for now, its free to add garage sales.
id like to see it get more use.

im using adwords to promote it, and for now its getting about 10 sales in each weekend. split fairly evenly VIC\NSW
the app only shows sales within a radius of your handset, you can change this from 5 to 500 km. and you can use it to get directions to the sale.


this post is to serve a two fold purpose. one, try the app out, come over to http://www.facebook.com/AusGsaler and come comment on it.
use it! add sales for your FTO/car parts

two, tell a friend, or share the facebook page to a friend. everyone loves garage sales ... and we all know some jerk who nabbed an awesome bargain. let them know.
if you could all help get one friend to have a look at it, it will help.

www.g-saler.com.au
the links to the apple app and the android app are on the page. you can add a garage sale from the website, OR you can add it from your handset.

give it a go. and if any of you want to build an app for anything come have a chat.

thanks guys.

[tarkus]

great idea! only thing is it runs on V4.3.0 and above. and you cannot update to the newer version.

i am running V4.2.1 and its not compatible. my iPhone is only 2 years old and I would presume a lot of the people that go to garage sales would have old phones as well. "looking for a bargain" type of people.

best of luck with the venture.

robert

[okamitengu]

thanks, its not running omn earlier versions of iOS?

i will let my programmer know... i want it to be accessible to everyone


thanks for the input.

**update**

well in the 4 minutes since i made this post, i have scheduled in backwards compatibility for older phones. i'll post here when its fixed!

thanks so much for the feedback!
anyone else seen anything? tried it?
comments?

[aza013]

I will be downloading it after the 16th of this month as I have over cooked my download quoted for the month .
Updated a sh*t load of program's on all the computers and iPhones / iPads.

[Taz]

Problem is that its an iphone
Ill give it a go amd let ya know dude I probably wont use it but I can give somw feedback atleast

[Bennoz]

great idea! only thing is it runs on V4.3.0 and above. and you cannot update to the newer version.

i am running V4.2.1 and its not compatible. my iPhone is only 2 years old and I would presume a lot of the people that go to garage sales would have old phones as well. "looking for a bargain" type of people.

best of luck with the venture.

robert

Only 2 years old? You're still on iOS 4! lol

Man, you should check out this new operating system coming out from Micro$oft,
It's awesome, they've called it 'Windows 98!'

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Downloaded & installed fine on Android 4.0.4

[shadowarrior]

Works awesome on 4.1.2 Android. But can't see any listing within 500 kms of my location (Gold Coast)

As for a club app idea:

A members database app would be great. Members can download and install it. It could use either their forum details to login (which might need to share login database) or login via facebook account or something. Even if it has it's own registration and login system; and the users use the same forum name and forum profile pic that's all it would need. The app would use the GPS data and google map service (MapView and LocationManager for Android) to locate each registered member in the map. Other members can check the members' location, and the app can give out some kind of a notification when a member is within a said proximity from the user.

For privacy, members need to request (add a friend?) other members to see their location.

Members can also save their travel logs (just the route traveled should be fine along with time taken and some notes the user wants to specify; like 'watch out for unmarked cops') against their profile and share nice routes/drives/locations of interest among other members. So pretty much I can hop on to the app when am in NSW, check which route Bennoz says is awesome for some twisty action...and select that route which takes me to Google's Navigation system and off I go.

I know this can be done via different apps...but just a thought to combine them all together for one FTO Community App

[okamitengu]

sorry shadow warrior, our google adwords campaign was focussed on nsw and vic,

im from adelaide and i dont see any sales either! we had to build an admin version just so we could see what was happeneing in the app for other states!

tell anyone you know and hopefully more sales will pop up in your area!

[okamitengu]

bit like one of those hook up apps but for us car nerds instead of *~delightful!~* dudes hooking up?

interesting idea...

(:

[PHIL069]

Then everyone will be coming around for tappet work

[Vectose]

Only allow people with tappets already adjusted to see where you are.

[tarkus]

Only 2 years old? You're still on iOS 4! lol

Man, you should check out this new operating system coming out from Micro$oft,
It's awesome, they've called it 'Windows 98!'

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Downloaded & installed fine on Android 4.0.4

could not get 98 to boot so got VISTA instead! lot more stable and only crash's once a day!

robert

[Bennoz]

[okamitengu]

just an update

new version came out for android friday.
apple is "reviewing" it now.

check it out, so many garage sales!! (:

[shadowarrior]

Apple's reviewing process is *~delightful!~*. Till you buy Test time blocks, they don't even tell you why your app didn't qualify for their store. Every time we have a release for iOS, it's a nightmare for me!

[-Nighthawk-]

Will be dealing with their review process soon. I'm currently in the process of developing an FTO DIY app which is scheduled to be released in the next few months. In general if you stick to the HIG, have decent performance and no bugs you are generally fine.

[okamitengu]

i always allow 2 weeks fop crapple reviews (:

look forward to the FTO DIY app (: great idea!

let me know whan its out and i'll plug it on my fb page

[okamitengu]

apple version was approved today!

that was only 4 working days... they must be bored at apple.

[-Nighthawk-]

I take it you used Phonegap for the framework?

[okamitengu]

nope, built and compiled in titanium by my developer

it outputs in android and apple, so one dev 2 platforms.

i dont do any of that side of things.. (: lol