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SKIP App--an idea whose time has come. Are you that programmer who can make an app???

 
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I think I speak for EVERYONE who's had to upload pics to the site when I say, There's got to be a better way.  I mean, we can put a person on the moon.  We can have instant delivery of doodads.  

And I am 99.99999% sure Paul doesn't have time to whip up an app for this...anyone else have programming skills? maybe I should post this on java ranch instead, where that is??

It would:

remind you of each thing you need to take pictures of in order while you're out there doing your chore, for example, checking your animals.  

app: "Joshua, dumbf#&*, don't forget to take a picture of their water first before you change it."  (And then maybe it keeps beeping at Joshua constantly until he appeases with at least one photo).
app: "Joshua, space cadet, now you can change their water.
(10 seconds later)
app: Joshua, you dumb()*)(, take a picture of the water bowl now that you changed it.
(waits for photo)
app: OK, not bad, dips*(&t, now take a picture of their feed bowl.
Joshua: Stop talking to me that way! I'm not a dips*#t!  

Then, it also labels each photo in addition to the time stamp, based on when the photo was taken (e.g. before changing the water or after, you can maybe knuckle-swipe the smartphone screen when you're done with a step), and gets the whole thing ready to upload with the correct categories to a thread on permies and lets you check it over before you hit submit.

This tool could even help people learn to do the steps of a chore, but that would be a separate project.  The main thing would be just to make sure you got the pics.  Pics or it didn't happen.

It's infinitely better to have a cameraperson, who's well organized and can follow directions better than I can, but if I don't have that, I think 90% of the tricky part of this could better be handled by robots.  Thoughts?

If anyone has already started making this, I'd love to be the idiot for the idiot-proofing!

No, I don't have the knowledge to code this myself, my coding days are long past and I needed to stop typing 15" ago for my body's wellbeing...but I could collaborate with someone.  Please get in touch.

 
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Spent more time searching for a solution than will admit here.  I am a programmer, but not in apps, so this appealed to me as a learning tool, yet don't have time to devote to learn and develop a full app now.

There are ways to build this without code background since it's basically a checklist of known steps.  There are numerous applications that can build an app from an excel spreadsheet yet downside is most of them require a subscription service, some per account, some per person designing app, and that seems almost prohibitive in cost for what permies might, or might not, pay for an app like this.  Of those I looked at could find none that would make a forum post but a few could e-mail stuff so forum post wouldn't be out of the question.  Guessing a plug-in or software development would be required, assuming permies.com sofware would allow automated posts.

In my time searching wasn't able to find an open source / fully free version of creating an app from a spreadsheet other than doing all the coding from scratch.

Thoughts / know any platforms or places to look?
 
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