Dmitry AmelchenkoDec 15, 20193 minHow to make your Photo-sharing application visible to crawlers.You've just built and launched an anonymous photo sharing app (WiSaw) which has tons of cool pictures. Now you want to start promoting it to masses to benefi...
Dmitry AmelchenkoDec 15, 20192 minRecent Wisaw updatesOver the past few weeks, some really cool updates were released for Wisaw. Keep reading for more details. Thumbnail quality Now you can actually read text on...
Dmitry AmelchenkoMar 18, 20195 minAlways use Google's URL Inspection tool when launching a new Site.Recently, I've launched what I saw web site, which was supposed to make sure, that all the content available via my mobile apps, is indexed by Google bot, ...
Dmitry AmelchenkoFeb 23, 20191 minwisaw web app launchedNow you can go to https://www.wisaw.com and see all the photos and comments in a browser. Cheers! The app follows our minimalistic philosophy, so the page de...
Dmitry AmelchenkoFeb 15, 20191 minWiSaw launched on ProductHuntWe recently announced the launch of WiSaw on ProductHunt. Please help us to get issued on the home page https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wisaw/maker-invite...
Dmitry AmelchenkoJan 17, 20192 minWiSaw rewrite to react-native (before and after)Today a react-native version of WiSaw app went live -- the life will never be the same. Just having better development environment and tools, allowed me, som...
Dmitry AmelchenkoDec 28, 20182 minMinimalistic architecture for Minimalistic product.General principals Giving scarcity nature of a startup company, main goal of the architecture is to provide simple solution, yet potentially scalable, that r...
Dmitry AmelchenkoAug 10, 20181 minTrailing comma everywhere?I recently posted a question to Boston React-Native group: Take a look at the example https://github.com/echowaves/WiSaw/blob/master/App.js I actually kinda ...
Dmitry AmelchenkoJul 31, 20183 minHow do big companies stay afloat hiring whoever's left?I recently lost a job and it never occurred to me how competitive the job market currently is. Most of people that were let go as part of the same layoff are...
Dmitry AmelchenkoJun 22, 20182 minWhat do WiSaw users think?Below we publish the results of recently conducted survey about WiSaw: 3.55 out of 5 stars -- not bad for a start. The biggest concern for our users is the l...
Dmitry AmelchenkoJun 8, 20181 minInfinite scroll -- a game changer!We have recently released a small improvement which will make a huge difference to our users. Now, instead of seeing no more than 100 relevant photos at a ti...
Dmitry AmelchenkoJun 2, 20181 minKeeping things up to date.Not a biggie, but wanted to let everyone know that we are keeping things up to date: Today we migrated to the latest and greatest PostgreSQL 10.3 (from 9.6)....
Dmitry AmelchenkoApr 11, 20181 min"Echowaves" is a different kind of a company.There is huge buzz going around in the industry about the Facebook wrong doing these days. Some suggest to kill Facebook completely: https://www.nytimes.com...
Dmitry AmelchenkoJan 16, 20185 minMigrating "WiSaw" to serverless AWS Lambda.Originally"WiSaw" backend was built on KOA2. See earlier blog posts about how it was done. At that time it was an excellent choice. Here are few things the p...
Dmitry AmelchenkoNov 1, 20171 minFew Final days [Android, more plans, final thoughts]It was super easy to get Android going. I had a fully functional API, and, since I already figured out the business logic while building for iPhone, I almost...
Dmitry AmelchenkoOct 26, 20173 minDay 7 (Thursday) [Conclusion]It's been a great week. At this point I will be concluding writing about this experiment. In a week, I built a working MVP! It took me little longer and I ha...
Dmitry AmelchenkoOct 25, 20172 minDay 6 (Wednesday) [Appealing iTunes, Android continued]Got rejected by Apple again for a different reason. This time the binary worked, which really makes me question the whole iTunes review process -- it was ess...
Dmitry AmelchenkoOct 24, 20172 minDay 5 (Tuesday) [Submitting to iTunes for review, Android bootstrap]The build was uploaded, but never appeared (I waited overnight) on the iTunes connect, so I can't submit it for review. After Googling around, I found that I...
Dmitry AmelchenkoOct 23, 20172 minDay 4 (Monday) [iOS]Generating and storing UUID on iPhone, so it can be sent as a mandatory parameter when submitting a photo. Capturing GPS location for the same reason, will a...
