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0 pointspastor_elm6y ago0 comments

A simple RESTful mobile-friendly web page could have handled this easy. What were these people thinking?

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xnyan6y ago· 2 in thread

Counterpoint, the primary use environment of the application will be on a smartphone. Web applications are not even second class citizens on iOS. In a situation where the user will be entering data all night, opening and closing and refreshing, variable internet connection quality and so on, all else being equal I would imagine the ideal platform would be a native application.

I lean towards agreeing with you that a simple website plus cheap laptop would the real world best case, but I can understand why you would want a native app.

boardwaalk6y ago

You could use local storage and make an offline web app to avoid data loss.

I agree a web app isn't great for low friction data entry, but they only enter the totals for each candidate x each round, so that'd be a dozen or two dozen short numbers for the whole night per user.

I found this which has some specifics: https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/politics/iowa-caucus-voting-a...

The only extra thing I see is a photo upload. Which is not rocket science from a web app either. At least on iOS you can take people right to the photo gallery or the camera.

I would really like to believe this isn't a flask app I couldn't whip up in an afternoon and polish over a week in my free time... but I'm having a hard time.

ss20036y ago

Maybe but I would guess that none of those factors were even considered.

war10256y ago· 2 in thread

I think that realization is something that comes with experience, and I'm guessing these people had very little real experience.

sidlls6y ago

The company was co-founded by a Google alumna.

war10256y ago

That doesn't mean as much as you might think.

Working in the depths of google and running a company are two very different things.

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