Hi guys, I found that it takes too much effort going from having an idea to building an app and having the world use it.
I wanted a way to have an idea, turn it into a fully functional native app, and share it with the world, all in the next 10 minutes, almost like writing a blog post. That's why I built Jason.
Jason is a completely hackable iOS client that does what you tell it to do. You just write a script in JSON and load it from Jason. Jason then interprets it in realtime and turns it into a native app. Check out the gallery to see what's possible. For example here's a product hunt client I built yesterday, in 10 minutes. http://www.jasonclient.org/galle... You can use it right now.
Here's what I had to go through to build that app:
1. I opened up my text editor.
2. Wrote a JSON.
3. Saved and shared it online.
That took about 10 minutes and the app was LIVE immediately for anyone to use, simply by sharing the JSON url.
Jason was extracted from production apps including Ethan and Textcast, which means it can do some serious stuff, probably anything you would need in a modern cloud-facing mobile app. In fact the current version of both Textcast and Ethan are running on Jason.
@nbashaw Here's a horizontal version :) http://www.jasonbase.com/things/... (You can also open it using url scheme: jason://data/http://www.jasonbase.com/things/...) Let me think about the gallery I honestly haven't thought this through because I've been so focused on getting this out there. Please sign up for slack channel if you're interested we can chat there!
The latest esoteric app from Ethan-creator, @gliechtenstein. Check out the gallery for some examples of mini-apps you can build from just a JSON file (hence the name!).
I specifically reached out to chris to check this out for hunting because he's one of the important contributors of OAuth, and OAuth was what gave me the most headache during the development process (but once implemented very much powerful) so I thought it would be an honor. Maybe I'll build a custom Uber client on Jason that only lets Chris uber me :)
@gliechtenstein this is so awesome. any chance you'll release something to let us ship apps without having to have users use the Jason app? I'd love to make some interesting stuff without having to say "go get Jason and copy in this URL"
@sanbsll@ethan I designed everything including the UI layout with Android in mind. The layout engine in particular is similar to how Android linear layout works. So yes, Android is in the roadmap. Currently I'm focused on the iOS version but will get to Android as soon as possible!
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