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iPhone as Service Professional Beacon #6

Open darylm88 opened 9 years ago

darylm88 commented 9 years ago

As a Grat Service Professional user, I would like the ability to use my phone as a beacon. I would like to use the app to broadcast my name and picture (if available) so that I can appear in the search results of anyone using the Grat app nearby.

I would like the ability to toggle this feature on and off, and customize my beacon broadcast name / picture (if available).

ackermcc commented 9 years ago

Agreed, is this needed for the experiment? On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:11 PM darylm88 notifications@github.com wrote:

As a Grat Service Professional user, I would like the ability to use my phone as a beacon. I would like to use the app to broadcast my name and picture (if available) so that I can appear in the search results of anyone using the Grat app nearby.

I would like the ability to toggle this feature on and off, and customize my beacon broadcast name / picture (if available).

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/ackermcc/Grat/issues/6.

darylm88 commented 9 years ago

It's likely that smartphone broadcasting for Grat will be far easier and cheaper to scale, and help with user adoption; users won't be forced to buy an iBeacon.

It would be good to test as many real world ID options as possible within our time frame. Testing performance / preference of iBeacon and phone broadcast is a really solid start.

It also seems as though we may have some extra capacity as we are still refining the graphics design needed for the app - however you are closer to this process so let me know if this is not the case.

Please let me know your thoughts.

ackermcc commented 9 years ago

I like that actually and I think it's a good point. We may want to split the testing up to see how it performs. The work required to add this may be significant if you're expecting to test both the Valet and the end consumer. We would really need an log in flow for them. On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:42 PM darylm88 notifications@github.com wrote:

It's likely that smartphone broadcasting for Grat will be far easier and cheaper to scale, and help with user adoption; users won't be forced to buy an iBeacon.

It would be good to test as many real world ID options as possible within our time frame. Testing performance / preference of iBeacon and phone broadcast is a really solid start.

It also seems as though we may have some extra capacity as we are still refining the graphics design needed for the app - however you are closer to this process so let me know if this is not the case.

Please let me know your thoughts.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/ackermcc/Grat/issues/6#issuecomment-71544303.

darylm88 commented 9 years ago

ok good to know.

quick question - did you ever implement a log-in for NiteLife? - it does seem very cumbersome to add at this point.

I wonder if we can do a simplified version of the phone broadcast - and skip setting up the login feature.

from my perspective, a log in feature requires the following, if not more:

  1. server side storage for user names and password
  2. password validation rules to ensure users create secure passwords
  3. username validation rules to make sure duplicate entries are not created
  4. email verification for user name creation (maybe)
  5. security - so that user names and passwords are secure

can we skip ALL of that and purely have a way to broadcast the phone with a name entered in a text box (similar to setting up an SSID for a WiFi router)?

I can draw up a user flow for what i'm thinking if thats helpful