January 7 – January 21: “Monumental” is the word to describe this sprint. If you remember from last sprint we worked a lot on building the application into an actual production ready app. Well, this sprint we not only built the application and deployed it internally on multiple phones via side loading and apple ad-hoc provisioning, we also got the DrivnBye appliaction approved by Apple’s test flight security and code review to be deployed internally and externally on test flight for our staff to begin playing around and reporting bugs! Soon we’ll be inviting our beta testers to join us!
This was a monumental step for our team, we can now see our app ready to download from apple’s infrastructure and we cannot wait to start to share this to our stakeholders to start gathering user feedback.
Before we jump into the release notes there are a couple of business notes we want to include too!
- We welcomed a new engineer to the team, he will be working on the web side of things that way for release day we’ll have a fully functioning content moderation platform for staff and content moderators.
- We observed an increase of 558% in website traffic in the last 30 days
- The Drivnbye.com website Appeared in over 500 google searches in the last 30 days
- Started a new campaign to start featuring our follower’s vehicles on our blog as a “Fan spotlight” starting with our director of software engineer’s BMW 435i
- Instagram gained 2k followers in the past 2 weeks
- Instagram reached over 180k unique users in the past 2 weeks
Release Notes
- Released on Apple Test flight!
- Created an engineering wiki with helpful documentation to setup your environment quickly
- Refactored app routing for the most intuitive navigation
- Removed stagnant libraries that either we do not use frequently or are proving to be unreliable in a production-like deployment
- Deployed a staging backend and database for our test flight deployment to interact with on a micro cluster.
- Refactored test scripts to generate over 8,000,000 rows in our database to stress test queries and identify queries that need attention
- Created multiple environments for production, staging and development to identify bugs before they reach production
- Blurhashes! added blurhashes for profile pictures, reviews, posts, and businesses
- Added full support for light and dark mode across the entire application
- Geohashing! We switched our SQL query over to geohashing
- RSVPing to events as a business, spectator, or vehicle
Whats Next?
A lot of happening over in DrivnBye world! Every day we’re making progress and taking one step closer to releasing to the general public. Now that we have out developer accounts approved by apple we can begin testing the app by multiple people across the world. Sprint 7 we’re going to be focusing on addressing any reported bugs that come in from staff users and stakeholders along with wrapping up the map view so we can move onto all the other feature rich (but not as feature rich as the map view) screens!
We look forward to seeing your sprint 7!
– The DrivnBye Team
Progress Screenshots
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