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Johnny Lin
@johnnylin · 🐶
Hey PH,
I got frustrated with fighting my wi-fi, so I built Wi-Fi Widget, which lets you instantly see, test, and share your wi-fi. Since it's accessible even from the lock screen, it's the fastest possible way to do this.
A few scenarios with and without Wi-Fi Widget:
1) "Why Google is taking so long to load??"
- WITHOUT: You seethe with anger and wonder how long you should wait until you throw your phone against the wall.
- WITH: Swipe down to Today and Wi-Fi Widget shows you you’re connected to some random router named “NETGEAR” with no internet.
2) Your friend comes over and asks, “what’s the wi-fi here?”.
- WITHOUT: Find that scrap of paper somewhere with the 20 character long random string, dictate it multiple times to your friend and screwing up because “sorry, M, not N… and it’s all capitalized… wait start over… okay never mind I don’t really need the internet here."
- WITH: Swipe right from the lock screen and tap “Share” on Wi-Fi Widget.
3) You’re wondering “is it just my crappy Comcast cable, or is this site actually down?”
- WITHOUT: You’re like, “ARGH, NEVER AGAIN, COMCAST…"
- WITH: Swipe down to Today, tap Wi-Fi Widget. It immediately tells you either how quickly your connection can ping the internet, or “ERROR: Couldn't reach internet.”
Wi-Fi Widget: Why Fight Your Wi-Fi?
It’s just 99 cents for the Product Hunt launch, regular $2.99.
Cheers,
Johnny
P.S. Passwords are synced via your personal iCloud Keychain, so only you have access. Also, Wi-Fi Widget has full iPad support.
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Johnny Lin
@johnnylin · 🐶
EDIT: This feature is live now in 1.0.2 and rolling out worldwide.
After receiving multiple requests for a feature to hide password on the lock screen, a new toggle to enable this behavior is now pending approval by Apple (version 1.0.2).
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Johnny Lin
@johnnylin · 🐶
EDIT: This feature is also live now in 1.0.2 and rolling out worldwide.
Also coming in 1.0.2: Tap your router name in the widget to open the Wi-Fi page in Settings for quick switching.
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Jp Valery
@jpvalery · Product Manager @ Gameloft
@johnnylin really cool - purchased it.
A cool thing could be to have built-in speed test (in Mb not ms :) )
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Johnny Lin
@johnnylin · 🐶
@jpvalery Thanks and great suggestion -- will put this feature request on the list for next 0.1 version.
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Arthur Ruppel
@arthur_ruppel
@johnnylin And that is the feature that sold me. Can't wait till the feature is available. Thank you!
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