After the second developer was unable to deliver, we took a bit of time off and re-evaluated the whole plan. We decided to shell out significantly more money to hire a US based developer - who was referred to us by a friend. We committed to them several months ago.
The developer has worked pretty well so far, but we've had to make choices on priorities based on cost. We initially wanted to start out with an iPad version, and then do an iPhone later, but we switched that around as we felt that more people use an iPhone than an iPad. However our app is a Universal, so it would look the same on both.
The design is functional. Not elegant, but it gives you all the information you want. To make it real intuitive would have doubled the cost of the app so we had to leave out some things to get it to market sooner.
They set up an interface which would allow us to input all the recipes we have ourselves. Once we started doing that, we ran into several issues. For example, it didn't allow us to do recipes in stages. Some of our recipes require you to assemble 2 or 3 things separately and then put together into a finished product at the end, so each stage has its own recipe and directions.
Also, we found that we were unable to "save" pictures or videos that we put in, so that was a bug that had to be fixed.
These bugs were fixed and they added a mechanism to do multiple stages of recipes and then we finished the last few recipes and submitted to the developer so that they could add to the app.
The apps we've received for testing were decent, but didn't have our recipes preloaded until we got it this Monday. We'll be busy testing every recipe to make sure everything works and we've already found some errors that need to be fixed before we submit to Apple.
Stay tuned!
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