Saturday, August 23, 2014

Social Networking app for iPhone: Freshh

Check out my new iPhone app, Freshh! I spent a decent amount of my summer working on it, and the first update went through since it got accepted on the app store a few days ago. 

Freshh lets you see people nearby without knowing where you are- it uses bluetooth and wifi (iOS 7's multipeer connectivity) to see other users nearby. A list of people within 30-50 feet will be displayed, including names and pictures. You can then look at their Facebook or Twitter, or see their Instagram or Snapchat names. It's an easy way to find strangers online. I think this is the direction that social networking needs to go, so I made Freshh to have people focus more on proximity based social networking.


Freshh is roughly 7000 lines- mostly objective-c, and also some auto generated xml from using storyboards. I developed this natively using Xcode 5 on my mac mini (sometimes from my macbook when the weather was nice and I wanted some freshh air). A big thanks to Apple for the awesome multipeer connectivity framework!


I posted freshh at no charge because I thought it would be cool for people to use. I have a few ideas for updates that  I want to push out... but with school starting soon and a bunch of other app ideas lined up, I'm not sure where in the picking order this lays. I also want to get this app on android and google glass... so I guess I have a decent amount of work to do.


Freshh doesn't use data and is free. Maybe you'll test it out, and if you like it, leave it a good rating  :)




https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/freshh/id889663839?ls=1&mt=8