We have a small problem with the iPhone app not uploading photos corectly – if portrait photos are uploaded they get rotated 90degrees left, A fix has been submitted to the app store – just waiting for it to be approved. Apologies for this!
Flukle
iPhone app bug
February 2nd, 2010iPhone app in store now
January 29th, 2010This morning I received a very welcome email from apple letting me know that our app has been approved and is in the store now.
To find it, just search for “flukle” on the app store or follow this link.
This is the first version of the app so is very basic at the moment, it just allows you to login and snap a photo or choose one from your roll and upload to the site. The second version will have the website built in so you can see your live stream, comment on people’ photos etc – one step at a time though!
Obviously I would appreciate any reviews or star ratings on the app store – I shall purchase you a lager in return if your ever in Manchester!
Site tweaks + iPhone app news
January 12th, 2010Based on feedback and beta testing we have been working on fixing a few things on Flukle this week :
- Pagination fixed on homepage stream – limited to 15 pages now
- Pagination in private messaging added
- Welcome note added with links what to do when a user first signs up (some people were confused)
- Sharing widget and HTML code for images added to photo display pages
- Avatars linked to public profile page
- Private messaging, sent items ordered correctly.
- 7. “Your Profile” tab now shows your comments and photo comments with ability to delete them.
We still have more things on our to-do list but we’re getting there, a live stream of all users on the site and the ability to upload a photo via web cam were the two most requested features so they are being built also.
Our iPhone app was submitted yesterday so fingers crossed that should be available soon.
1st day of testing
January 6th, 2010Yesterday I mailed 1000 people who were on our list from the holding page and also let my friends on twitter know about the site so we could get some people on here to do real testing. It proved to be a really handy exercise, it goes to show that no matter how much you think something is ready you can never be sure untill a group of real people get their hands on it!
Some stats from our first day of beta testing :
- 260 users registered
- 460 images uploaded
- 1400 visits
- 13,000 page views
- 284MB site bandwidth
- 600MB Amazon S3 Bandwidth
The experience has been really helpfull and thrown up lots of glitches that need fixing, usability features that need adding etc so we will be working on these over the next week or so before I do some more promotion.
Upcoming Features
December 23rd, 2009As I mentioned we have an iPhone application ready to be submitted to the app store, I thought I would give you an idea of some other features that are planned for the future :
- Developer API – to allow programmers to build on top of our framework
- Widgets – some way to display your photos on other sites
- Customisable profiles (possibly, not 100% decided on this yet)
- Flickr and other social media site connections
- Geolocation features
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head, I’d love to hear any suggestions for features, if you have them – let me know!
Welcome to Flukle
December 15th, 2009Welcome to Flukle – we’re in the early stages of beta testing at the moment so i’m aware that we still have a few things to iron out with the interface and workings, if you notice anything unusual it would be a big help if you could let me know, I’d also love to hear any feedback and suggestions.
Seeing as this is the first post on the flukle blog, I thought I’d give a bit of background info about the site and its development.
I’m a big fan of Twitter (follow me here or follow flukle here) and liked what people like Noah at Twitpic did to allow Twitterers to share photos with each other. I was over in Dublin for some nights out with a mate and we were taking loads of photos and added to facebook when we got back. I thought it would be cool to build an app that took the best bits of Twitter and Twitpic and combined them so you could follow your mates and see what they were up to in real time. Other sites in our space doing really well are DailyBooth (focused on photos of yourself) and Posterous (more than just photos) – hopefully there is room for us and our slightly different take on things.
I started a design for the site on April 7th 2009, the site was originally going to be called “Snapdater” but I decided on something shorter and snappier. Here is some initial (boring!) designs I did for the Snapdater name :
I personally have done all the design work and html/css templates and the programming was done by one talented guy called Donatas Dautartas – its taken a bit longer than we planned but we’re finally at the stage to accept testers.
We have an iPhone app programmed and ready to be submitted to the app store once the site is open to the public – that will be released very early 2010. At the moment the app just allows you to take and upload pictures, the second version will allow you to see your timeline and follow friends updates as well.
Thanks for reading, I hope you find Flukle entertaining!
Oliver Dale – Creator of Flukle