Placelist
Discover places you'll love from people you trust.
It's been a bit of a slog, and had to put the project down for a bit, but Placelist just passed 200 signups! This has been the result of several efforts, including blogging, social media marketing via Instagram and friends of friends signups.
I was stuck for a bit not knowing if I wanted to go ahead but at this point I thought I'd at least continue to learn and validate before building anything more.
Partially this project has allowed me to get more practice with Figma and Protopie and workout a general approach for these types of consumer MVPs by assembling a kind of toolkit.
Chaz
I started using Fuse Open last year - fairly steep learning curve but allowed me to build a real working version of an app.
Right now the app is "half built" - has most of the scaffolding in place - but the core maps functionality has to be re-built (Fuse doesn't have great map integration so need to re-think).
However, the core features are built and you can search places by neighborhood.
Did another re-design in Figma so I could have a working prototype I could test with. Since the older versions of placelist were designed more as a web app I felt I needed something really reflective of "an instagram of places" type angle.
This was great as well as I hadn't used Figma in a while so it gave me a chance to brush up on it.
The prototype is here - https://www.figma.com/proto/b06buP45bObXJ4XeFdehIDmh/Placelist?node-id=10%3A650&scaling=scale-down
Sent out a google survey to a group of people (friends, friends of friends) to solicit feedback and understand how they thought of the problem of saving, sharing and discovering places.
The really interesting thing I found is that many felt there was still not a great way to discover new places - or to have a quick list of places they could pull up and share with friends who were asking for recommendations.
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