mobile social networking in 25 days
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Mobile Social Networking. In 25 days.Vishnu Gopalvish.in
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Me:Technical Lead, MobME.
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A real world case study
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of rewriting a stubborn old application
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and making it new, pretty and usable.
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1 designer. 1 developer.1 sweeper. 25 days.
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OLD MOBSHAREPHOTOS, VIDEOS, AUDIO, BLOGS, CLUBS, PEOPLE, SPOTLIGHT, HALL OF FAME, INVITE
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NEW MOBSHARESLIDER, PHOTOS, VIDEOS, PEOPLE, UPLOAD, SIGNUP, FEATURED PHOTOS/VIDEOS, ACTIVE USERS
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How we did it
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Lessons learnt
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Mistakes made
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Interlude: Background
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Poor design and usability.
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Slow site.
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Confusing. Too many features.
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OLD MOBSHAREPHOTOS, VIDEOS, AUDIO, BLOGS, CLUBS, PEOPLE, SPOTLIGHT, HALL OF FAME, INVITE
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Was not sellable.
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We (re)started with the vision.
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A place where anybody can share media taken on
a mobile.
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Cut down on the features:Photos, Videos, Social Networking,Mobile interaction.
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Less is more. Do less, but do it better.
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Made mockups of the whole site design.
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MOBSHARE MOCKUPPOWERPOINT MOCKUP OF THE PROFILE PAGE.
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HTMLized the Mockup ASAP.
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DESIGN NEUTRAL HTMLHTMLIZED VERSION OF THE VIEW PAGE.
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outsourced rest of the work to a design firm
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FINAL DESIGNPRETTY MUCH EXACTLY TO SPEC.
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High Level Technology Choices:PHP, Symfony frameworkStandard LAMP serversFactory in Ruby
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Had lots of choices:RAILS / DJANGO, LIGHTTPD / NGINXDecided on Familiar over ‘Better’
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Fast turnaround needs agile and small teams.
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Clear separation of work
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Developer, Designer and One Person to Roam
Around Between the Two Roles (Sweeper)
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Definite milestones
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Do or die, we kept to those milestones.
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Daily Communication with management through
EODs.
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Mistakes
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Didn’t get reliable servers.
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Didn’t plan for continuity.
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Not enough documentation.
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No Unit Tests.
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Praise: George BrodyIt looks FANTASTIC!! The team has done a great job on the whole user experience part.
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NEW MOBSHARESLIDER, PHOTOS, VIDEOS, PEOPLE, UPLOAD, SIGNUP, FEATURED PHOTOS/VIDEOS, ACTIVE USERS
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Sellable.
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Proud.
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Questions?Register at
www.mobshare.in& send MMS to