Voo Plan for iMessage

Plan and meet with friends fast via iMessage.

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Plan and meet with friends fast via iMessage.

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Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

I'm the CTO at Voo! I'm super excited with our new app. We had a lot of fun experimenting with the new iMessage Applications and iOS10. I'm here to answer any questions about what we're doing. Our goal is to provide the best way for people to plan directly from within their actual tools, in this case iMessage. A bit of personal background, I'm a technology enthusiast, particularly everything that touches programming. I love react and react-native. This app is actually all made up with react-native! So if you have any questions about the technology we used I'll be happy to answer! You can email me at hugo@letsroundup.com. Here's a photo taken during the development, when you develop on beta software, using the Force always help!

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10yr ago

Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

@dozoisch @tryvoo There was a lot of force being used to build an iMessage App in React Native! :P

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10yr ago

Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

@bentossell @dozoisch Thanks for the feedback! We are truly convinced iMessage apps will improve the way we communicate. Stay tuned!

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10yr ago

Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

@bentossell Thanks a lot! Yes, I think there is a superbe opportunity on that front. We do hope this problem gets solved as it such a common problem.

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10yr ago

Maku

Congrats on the launch, guys!

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10yr ago

@dozoisch This looks great. Excited to actually use it soon. Apple micro apps are here :)

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10yr ago

Maku

This is fantastic. Really excited to give it a try on IOS10! Will you be supporting iMessage on Mac as well? I often just text from my Mac.

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10yr ago

Maku

Oh and where do you get your restaurant listings from? Just wondering if it'll work smoothly anywhere in the world.

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10yr ago

Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

@david_el_achkar thanks 😄 works on the mac just fine! And you can send plans to anyone even if they don't have iOS :)

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10yr ago

Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

@david_el_achkar it works on Google places so anywhere in the world pretty much 😄 what else would you like to see in the product?

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10yr ago

This looks great and as Kumar said there are a ton of these get-together apps that have popped up but none that I've seen that work straight from iMessage. This is a game changer I'm excited to put it to use. When are you adding the full calendar integration?

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10yr ago

Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

@alex_tatem Thanks a lot Alex, we're actively working on that. It's already live on our side so 2-3 days it should be out. What do you think of being able to suggest dates to your friends? Yoni above was asking about that. Would that be useful to you?

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10yr ago

@cturlica yes, definitely useful I find myself always sending 3 dates / times with people when arranging to meet up. It depends, the use case if this is with close buddies I'm meeting up with for drinks or if I am arranging a lunch meeting with someone. I could even see suggesting locations as a cool thing in the future.

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10yr ago

Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

@alex_tatem @cturlica That's actually a good idea! We're going to do a bit of whiteboarding to see how we could fit it in the context of the app!

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10yr ago

Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

@alex_tatem Alex, we spent over a year perfecting our group recommendation engine. You can follow your favorite places in the city and get smart recommendations of where to go depending on the people in the group and the time you want to do something. You should try it ;) We also integrate Opentable, Groupon, Mogl, Eventbrite, Ticketfly for your places.

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10yr ago

Waydev

Love the app, everything else I used for planning was always about getting my friends to fill out forms and annoy everyone on another app. When are you guys adding the calendar updating? Will it be live updated?

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10yr ago

Love it! Apps like Voo is what iMessage needs to become better than Messenger. Btw what is your experience working with iMessage SDK?

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10yr ago

Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

@bojanbabic Thanks! The SDK works pretty well. There haven't been major bugs apart from a few changes! Documentation has been improving in the past week which is good. The API is pretty stable (surprisingly given that it's very new!). We're hoping that they will let us link to external targets.

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10yr ago

Hey I love this new product - beautiful design and so intuitive! Just one question -- what happens when 2 people make edits to the card at the same time? Great job team :)

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10yr ago

Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

@nawal_ghali Yay! The cards are collaborative but the first person to send it out sets the plan in stone. We considered making it live collaborative and that's what we have in another product we build Would that be something useful to you?

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10yr ago

@cturlica Yes definitely ! Do you have a timeline for this in imessage?

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10yr ago

Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

@nawal_ghali It could be as early as this weekend :)

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10yr ago

VitaDAO

I've got to say thank you for building this! It's something technology should've solved a long time ago. Now it's here. Do you wish iOS 11 will bring some new features to enable you to do even more on this? What's next?

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10yr ago

Voo Plan for Kik

Maker

@laur_ion Thanks!! Yeah right now Apple is really limiting us in things we can do such as deeplinking and a lot of other things. We could have built something a lot more powerful but we had to play in the sandbox that was given to us. What else would you like to see in it? How would you see it evolving?

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10yr ago

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