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I am 20 years app developer. I started creating apps 2 and half years ago. I always liked programming and when I discovered Objective-C I simply “falled in love with it”.
Every time I create a new app I try to outmatch the results of the previous ones.
One of my passions is traveling, discovering new countries and cultures, foods and cuisines. For many months I reflected about creating an app which could provide a “universal travel guide”. So I started creating Veu. It’s my most complex app at the moment, which comprises also a backend written in nodejs that serves the data.
Initially Veu was launched as a paid app. First error. At least in my case this metodology didn’t work.
At this point, I made some changes on Veu. I added an ad banner, made a better icon and sent the update to Apple for review. I revised the app description with a more “selling” one.
This time things were going better, hundreds of downloads every day. So I took the opportunity to write to press. iMore, TUAW and AppAdvice talked about Veu in different days, with a peak of 30.000 downloads in a day.
Capacity planning for Veu. Batch request and caching with Redis are implemented.
Now to the downsides. The server had a downtime of 3 hours, due to quota exhaustion in one of API I was using. I lost many users and received many bad reviews. My fault because I didn’t implement cache. So check that! ;-)
At the moment I am working to add the OpenStreetMap places to the database. Here is a work in progress.
Veu for iPhone is available on the App Store for Free
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/veu-city-explorer/id648861758?l=it&ls=1&mt=8&at=10l7qw
