App Store Currency Lookup Widget

As an indie mobile game developer, we need to constantly add new skus for sales in app. Thus, we consistently look up the price conversion for our skus. Currency Lookup Widget alleviates this problem.

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Inspiration

As a small indie mobile game developer, we need to constantly add new skus for one time weekly sales in our app. Thus, we consistently look up the price conversion for our skus when we are adding new in game products and items. App Store Currency Lookup Widget alleviates this problem by fetching the supported currencies for your mobile app.

What it does

It's a Jira plugin that adds a button to the issues and it will convert your app's base currency to the currencies that you support. It saves the configuration in the Jira settings and looks it up every time you convert a currency, so you don't have to constantly look up the same currency pairings.

How I built it

It's built as a Forge app and it's using an API to call to fetch the latest exchange rates.

Challenges I ran into

The documentation was great in terms of how to set up a Forge app. I'm trying to delete some sample apps I installed via Forge but can't seem to be able to, but that's a minor issue.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

It's nice to be able to add functionality to Jira, a system that we are already using. I had some issues with the permissions but the lint checker was AMAZING! Good job on that piece Atlassian team!!

What I learned

I think building on Forge is definitely easier than connect if you already know React. It's really a breeze to implement and it's great to not have to set up your own deployment

What's next for App Store Currency Lookup Widget

I look to deploy it to production to help other fellow indie game developers!

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