Hey everyone,
Just wanted to send my notes on the hack demos from this weekend, and
potentially start a discussion about shipping some of them!
*Apple Watch: *Corey & Jason did an incredible job on this, and I'm
essentially sold that a watch companion app could augment our *read later* and
*search* flows for what seems like a reasonable development cost.
Not sure who did it, but server-side image/upload validation could be
further facilitate cross-platform mobile uploads?
*Image surface content gap*: IOW, which pages are in the most need of
pictures. Seems like a "micro edit" workflow that could work well for apps
when combined with location/geo-fencing.
*Haikus from recent changes:* More of a technical inspiration: I'd love to
discuss building a service that sends push notifications in response to RC
stream events.
*Dmitry's "Wikipedia Lite" hack*: I think we should do some prototypes on
this. In particular, I'd like to play around with parsoid to create a
"reader view" for Wikipedia pages. Aside from streamlining content for
mobile and improving performance, this could also make it easier to bring
back a lot of reader-centric features. Dynamic font sizes & color/contrast
configurations are two things I see pop up from time to time in OTRS &
iTunes.
*Bernd's map view for Nearby:* This seems like a no-brainer. I sent a
separate email to mobile-l, because it seems like some progress has been
made in this area since I last looked into it.
What were your favorite hacks?
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