Monthly Recap, May 2014
Every last Wednesday of the month a little recap and outlook. This time: usability update, MobileCamp, Gründerfoyer, blog, 1000 facebook likes.
What's new? - Improving Arundo.
After launching Arundo naturally there was a lot of new input and feedback not yet covered during the beta test. Since developers never sleep we go right on with making Arundo as ready for productivity as possible. We used the great responses to target transparency and general usability first, before adding further features.
After tweaking and fixing a few bugs that were largely caused by the productivity environment Arundo runs in when downloaded from the store (and not the provided test environment it runs in during development), the In-App-Store received a brand-new look.
Which events are going on? - On the Road again.
Florian and René breathed the air of a real bar camp this month. It smells of bytes, hightech and a lot of good ideas. It's the building of the department of informatics at TU Dresden, where the MobileCamp 2014 took place. At the beginning of each day the barcampers suggested topics for talks and presentations they could give and then decided democratically which of them were the most interesting and should actually take place. You can read all about René's experiences and a summary of the presentations on our blog (German).
The Arundo team was once more part of the "Gründerfoyer" of dresden exists with an audience of about 600 listeners attending the presentation of Peter Leibinger the vice chairman of Trumpf GmbH & Co.KG.
Five young Start-ups were pitching their ideas in front of the same audience as well. A two-minute elevator pitch had to be sufficient for Whisp, Nordwerk, Fodjan and others to present their start-up vision. One year ago Arundo was in the same spot, so we know about the challenge this comes with. A few impressions from the pitches and our test stand can be found on our blog as well.
What's next? - Bright Future.
Following your feedback we would like to make the first contact with Arundo clearer, easier and less challenging. The next two main updates will bring less buttons, easier page navigation, an example WorkDesk and event-based tips to get started.
That being done we plan on working on that feature wish list by implementing a key feature asked for by many - it's a surprise, stay tuned!
What else? - Odds and Ends.
Thank you for 1000 facebook likes! About 60% guys, 40% gals, 80% German, 15% from the States and 4% from Austria... https://www.facebook.com/ArundoApp
We started our productivity and tech Blog this month! Of course it will be partly about Arundo, the use cases and our thoughts behind it but it will mainly inform about events, tools and in general about ways to be more productive. http://arundoapp.tumblr.com
It's twittering here and there! With this month we started using twitter more regularly and getting used to the platform. So if you prefer little blue birds just go ahead and follow, there will be news. https://twitter.com/ArundoApp
