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?