posted 3 years ago
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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