Roast Me

[Lofty]

Out of interest, since it is a similar topic, how easy is it to develop an app yourself?

[Offshore Toon]

Pretty easy these days with ChatGPT. You'll need other tools, so it's handy to have somebody in the industry to guide you, but it can be done in a fairly straightforward manner for basically zero cost.

[Raoul Duke]

It's one of those things though where you can knock something together with off-the-shelf parts easy enough but as soon as you want to do something custom then it gets trickier quite quickly. But if it's just an Android app or something then you can probably get some cheap labour to do something (while they install crypto mining backdoors)

[SvN]

It's very easy to do badly. If you want to develop something that can actually scale, you need to invest in a proper team.

[Magic]

Out of interest, since it is a similar topic, how easy is it to develop an app yourself?

Not easy at all.

[Baz]

Isn’t the fee to be a developer and upload apps to Apple’s App Store something daft-expensive?

[Spikey M]

It's Apple. So yes.

[SvN]

It's not, it's about £100 per year.

[Magic]

Hi guys, sorry me again. I've totally changed my landing page on the back of a few more conversations I've had. I've also started (badly) designing my app.

Thoughts and roastings appreciated (www.feedingforward.co.uk) xxx

[Baz]

What does it cost?
For consumers, the app is entirely free to use.

For restaurants, there will be a monthly subscription fee to access the hospitality portal.

But what does it cost? Either put how much it costs or change the question to ‘is there a cost?’

Also could you get a stock image with a most recent model of phone?

[Magic]

But what does it cost? Either put how much it costs or change the question to ‘is there a cost?’

Also could you get a stock image with a most recent model of phone?

Done.

I'm super amazed that's the feedback on the photo rather than how shit my app looks.

That was the best of a bad bunch, put it that way.

[Jimmy Floyd]

'Get change' sounds like you'll receive coins for your feedback.

[Magic]

'Get change' sounds like you'll receive coins for your feedback.

Alternatives? Drive change sounds a bit too blue sky.

[SvN]

Yes, as long as the venue exists on Google it will appear to leave feedback on.

This is really vague, and doesn't really mean anything. What does "exist on Google" mean? That they have a Google Business Profile? If so, say that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Alternatives? Drive change sounds a bit too blue sky.

Achieve change

[thommo]

The Idea Merchant

[Magic]

This is really vague, and doesn't really mean anything. What does "exist on Google" mean? That they have a Google Business Profile? If so, say that.

I know, it's the terminology. 'A unique ID' but I didn't know what that actually is. Bootstrapping.

[Magic]

The Idea Merchant

Point taken and amended.

[Magic]

Achieve change

Achieve change. Atchi atchi.

[SvN]

I know, it's the terminology. 'A unique ID' but I didn't know what that actually is. Bootstrapping.

You really need to figure that out, it's fairly fundamental. As someone who works in the industry, there's no concept of a "Unique ID" on google; but I suspect you are indeed referring to their GBP.

[Magic]

The core rule of the internet is the 90/9/1 rule. 90% of internet users are passive. Any time you ask anyone to do anything the most likely scenario is they won't. For every extra step a user has to take the drop-off rate increases.

Say you have 100 people with a base interest in this. The moment you ask them to register, you've lost 80 of them. If you make them verify their email before doing anything, you've lost 15 more.

So to get your product to be useful for people you'd need millions of people to see it. The best way to get to the millions is by providing a service to the people who already have the millions of people rather than you convincing millions of people to take a punt.

So I didn't realise but the app can automatically know who you are from your device ID. This is a good way to not require people to sign up because I don't need their user info. Thanks.