CRAWL

A crawl event
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Shameless appstore links: https://crawlapp.io/

Inspiration

Have you ever tried to meet up with your friend and it goes something like this:

You: Hey I just got off the train. Where are you at?

Friend: I'm at the Starbucks

quickly google searches starbucks only to find 3 within a mile of you

You: Which Starbucks?

Friend: The one with the drive through

You: ....

Well that's basically the inspiration for the app. My girlfriend and I were trying to find our friends at an outdoor concert and it was difficult to track them down. So I made this. A simple app to share your location with your friends during a set period of time.

What it does

Crawl allows you to share your location with your friends during a set period of time. Easily. Without an account.

How I built it

I built it using react native expo and a metric ton of npm modules. I just kind of glued the pieces together till I got something almost functional.

Challenges I ran into

Developing cross platform is difficult without a mac :(
Finding time to develop the app in-between work and school!
Learning all the devops knowledge for deploying an app to either app store
Working with packages on the latest version broke the app more than once. I have learned to be more appreciative of stable builds.

Accomplishments that I am proud of

I am mostly proud of building something I can share with my friends. Most things I code for only work on "my machine" or are "internal use only". I'm also proud of creating my first mobile app!