Generally speaking, this is probably the worst looking/functioning app out of YC. I was actually surprised to hear it was YCW12.
I know those are jerky things to say, but I felt really let down by the experience. I really do think this idea is relevant but not executed the way that would be conducive to opening an app each time I want to record a moment with my wife.
My advice (grain of salt) is that you point these events and moments inward to Pair – have Facebook, Twitter post to Pair (e.g., "Post messages I leave on my partner's wall to Pair") or Foursquare check-ins (e.g. "You and your partner were at Giant Tiger together on May 9, 2012". I understand that Pair is for 1-to-1, but since there is no community element, it's hard to stay engaged. If Pair was more like my memories box I think it has legs. You could kind of think of it as an Evernote for relationships.
I also think you should really try to have Pair accessible faster. Having other apps post to it is one way (people are happy to have Facebook open, for example). Another way is to make it as fast as possible for a user to be able to post memories.
Anything to share about what people are doodling?
SELECT action_type, COUNT(*) FROM pair_actions GROUP BY action_type;EDIT: I was not able to find the app by searching for pair in the Play Store. But they have a link to the online store on their website which worked. For those looking to download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tenthbit.j...
It looks like a well written normal Android app supporting a variety of screen sizes on Android 2.2 and above. Text is only available in English. They use regular Android screen layouts and widgets inside (lists, images, text etc). The Android compatibility library is used (primarily fragments) so it should layout well no matter what. They have composed their app using numerous different Activities as is best practise for Android, although they force several into portrait mode.
Mixpanel is used for analytics. There are several "realtime" sockets related thirdparty libraries. All the code was Java (ie no C/C++/ObjC was involved).
I obviously can't see their source code, but based on what I do see they have a textbook example of how to write an Android app following best practises.
Check out Sony Ericsson's recently released ApkAnalyser
I'm happy that they got the funding but I'm just curious as to what the pitch was to justify that investment.
For instance, if there's a new todo/reminder/etc. added is there a notification sent out? There could be a problem if one person uses the app updates it a lot and the other doesn't check it as often.
- Signup screen is broken. When I'm entering my details (email and password), I don't see the textboxes. Keyboard is covering that. Screen should re-adjust if I'm entering details.
- When I upload the photo, please give user choice to scale and orient that photo. My photo didn't scale to fit by default.
(I still am amused that I needed to convince my girlfriend to get an iPhone instead of another blackberry, last year)