What we've done for Hack Manchester 2014
Not long until we have to down keyboards, but we're pretty much stopping now because actually we've done what we set out to. Or rather, we've done the minimum we wanted to do; if we had another half day we'd be cracking on with the next feature.
Just after noon on Saturday we sat down in the kitchen area with a big piece of paper and some post-it notes and wrote this story title:
I want to meet my friends at a pub
It's a compelling story I'm sure you agree and helping with this everyday social problem is what we've spent our weekend on. A bit more detail (written in gherkin form):
Given I have friends available to meet
When I invite them to meet at a pub
Then it suggests a centrally located pub
We call this creation justmeet, which we think is snappy and just close enough to being litigiously derivative to another site to be interesting.
What does look like in practice? Well it's a bit rough but here's a screenshot journey.
The start screen, where it all begins:
If you are the one who decides to start the meeting, you get to choose who is in:
If instead of creating a meeting you are luckily enough to be invited to one then this is what you get:
Then the magic bit. Once everyone has accepted the meeting the application uses everyone's location to work out the pub that is nearest to the prospective-drinkers central location:
In this case we wanted a better test so we roped in someone who is at home in Leeds. Actually after being up for 30+ hours I don't fancy going to Oldham, but I think it proves it works.
Here's another one where we stuck to the team all sat in MOSI:
In another post we'll describe how we wrote justmeet.
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