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Time for big changes..

It’s been a while.. since my last blogpost. If you’ve read it, you know why.

No, there is no change on how codesofa is organized or what I do here.. Just big changes in GottaGo - don’t worry, it’s still free.

Let’s take a look back.. A month ago, I released GottaGo and it was a huge success. Even though I knew it was far from perfect - I was quite surprised :)

This gave me the chance to get a lot of feedback which resulted in a lot of thoughts. The biggest issue seemed to be the translations. As I mentioned in an earlier blogpost, this has been fixed - or is beeing fixed right now. Those are actually the easy parts of an update when you had success. Fixing the things the users complained about. Finding things the user will notice only when he sees it, is another thing :)

So another bunch of thoughts.. Soon it was clear - a big change was needed on how GottaGo works internally. Maybe I’ll find time in the future to write in detail about it - or let’s say as soon as Apple lifts the NDA.

I’m now just going through all the features we have now - to wet your tongue a bit ;)

Live Search:Search through your contacts and stations as you type
New Locator:Set your desired accuracy and start/stop it whenever you want.
Setting your travel time:Set the time you want to arrive or travel from.
Transparent offline mode:Load your old trips without any internet connection
Station validation:You’ll be prompted, when your station was wrong
Use addresses or locator for nearby searching:You can even set both to nearby and it will cross-connect them
Keeps Application stateWherever you close GottaGo, it will come back to that point
Favorites with one value onlyDefine your favorites for your from only, or your to only or both
Very nice UIA lot easier to read and find your way through

This is quite a bit, I’d say - And that’s why it took me so long.. Or let’s say “us”.

So, who is this “us”:

Stefan Sicher - Had a lot of work, arguing with me about design, usability and the like. But every time he’s more or less excited again to provide me some fine art - Even if that means that he has to do the same view 10 times until it fits. (Like the places view..)
The local.ch guys - Providing me an API which makes GottaGo so damn cool ;)
The liip.ch guys - Providing me with time and a lot of support through testing and contacts.
Memi Beltrame - Doing the translation for our “ragazzi”
Joel Bez and Jakob Bohnacker - Doing the translations for our “amis”

Does the future look any bright? I hope so. Even though I don’t have any plans for further releases.. Just issue fixing probably.

I think we’ll start some new projects soon. I kinda need a change :) So don’t expect any big updates on GottaGo. Just as the rule no.1 in software engineering: ”Release often, release early”

If anyone’s interested in some new cool apps, just drop me a line :)

When does it come out? Somewhen in the next two weeks. Beta testing will end as of sunday evening, and I’ll release it to the AppStore by then. And then it’s up to Apple :)

So here are just a few Screenshots and there is of course a video!

Here’s the video: http://couch.codesofa.com/static/ggo_010_streaming.mp4 (About 50mb, h.264)