Xiongmao Posted July 27 Not sure if this is the right part of the forum for this, but I'll use it as a placeholder for our grand new doll-related project. A few months ago I made the doll social media gadget thing as seen with Ciel below. The how-to YouTube video bombed and the gadget never really worked properly due to Ciel and I having a fairly limited knowledge of C++. For years I've been planning to make a mobile phone app. Despite knowing nothing about app development it was actually my first task in my new job 😲. To try and learn more of this brave new world Uzuki and I have started building an app for dolls (and maybe their human owners too). This one is written in C# and SQL, of which I have decades of experience. There are a few collector type apps in the app store but this one will be aimed specifically at dolls. Although if it's successful we might turn it into something for pet owners or general collectors of stuff. Alas it will be Android only to start with, not because we can't make an iPhone app but because Apple's policies are just so restrictive compared to Google. Well hopefully it will make it into the Play Store. Watch this space... Also let me know if you can think of anything useful to put in it. Right now we're putting plenty of unuseful stuff in 😁. But the best feature so far is having a list of your dolls' birthdays. 11 My Dollfie doll family 😊. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PlasticJester Posted July 27 Interested to know more about this. I know nothing of coding, but UI design and aesthetics are important to me for an app, especially one I would consider an "organization" app. Would love to see mockups sometime! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ohnoaiwa Posted July 28 it would be really interesting to see a social media-like app focused for dolls! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chupakiba Posted July 28 Aww, as an iPhone user, I would have loved to have had a doll owners' app. 1 Sometimes you're Godzilla and sometimes you're Tokyo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tierparkzone Posted July 28 So far, I've only played around with a Python toolkit for app development. - Which, from the perspective of somebody who hadn't done any app development before, worked decently well.(No doll related app, though...) But I guess, you have to work with whatever language you want to practice for work. A little tracker for your doll birthdays sounds nice! Maybe a memo sheet you can set up for your dolls too. - Where you can add individual items. A "Stain Diary" function could also be pretty useful. - I keep one in a paper memo pad right now, but a digital one would be cool. Basically, mark when you did the last stain check and on whom you found stains where. Then check if treated and when, or if they faded, etc. 1 Photo Story - Photo Thread - make your own signature like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xiongmao Posted July 30 App progressing well. Towa just authorised the purchase of the domain name for the project. Amazingly it was still available. I thought installing 64Gb of RAM in my [human sized] PC was a dumb use of money that could have been spent on doll accessories 😁. However this beast of a machine is now really good for mobile development. The app looks pretty amazing with all their photos in. At the moment you can't add or edit dolls but it will come with my dolls preloaded and then they'll be deactivated once you add your own dolls. I'm currently adding in bestie and nemesis functionality. It will have a lot of quirky stuff like this. It's going to be a generic doll app, so won't specifically be for vinyl/resin/anime dolls. If it flops I'll reskin it and turn it into some other collectible app. I just downloaded a fishing app to spy on the competition. In case anyone thinks it's vapourware, here are some screenshots. I don't think it's too bad for a week's work. I did once have a small business software company back in the days when installable downloads for Windows were a big thing. I did really well out of that one. 7 My Dollfie doll family 😊. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mmmuguet Posted July 30 This looks fun, I'd love to try it out when it's ready! It has my love of filling out profiles and cataloging which I tend to do with everything from perfume to dolls lol. I use a pixel so Android works well for me! I think it'd be neat to have the function of progress boxes for dolls/WIP tab or something similar, since I feel like several of us tend to have at least one that's in the works. I usually keep a list for each doll in my hobby journal so I can track things I'm still hunting or needing (ex: body for x, wig for x, brown shoes for y and z). 1 •୨୧┈ Iskander tinyfox little anna • Bishop tinyfox lilith • Lariat tinyfox 06S • Crocus tinyfox asmoti • Cedar tinyfox nomi • Copernicus tinyfox murphy • Hyacinthe tinyfox c-16 • Salem tinyfox little ashley • Arlo tinyfox raya • Clary tinyfox li chun • Wren tinyfox lizzy • Drosera tinyfox fluffy • Narcisse tinyfox d-01 • Robin mdd ddh-01 • Otto mdd ddh-01 • Yuliy mdd ddh-01 • Chino obitsu 50-04 • Eden obitsu 50-04 • Vivian azone fururu tan ┈୨୧• Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xiongmao Posted August 4 OK so Uzuki has realised this has turned into a major project and we're way over budget 🥵. We spent most of last week rebuilding the internals to make it more flexible. There's still a lot to do but hopefully the main part of actually adding and editing dolls shouldn't be too problematic. The app could go in many directions but it's definitely going towards being a play orientated app where you can find out more about your dolls... Given the whole world's gone AI mad, once you upload dolls you can then see what they're posting to their DollBook. I'm probably not alone in thinking what they've written is a lot more intelligible than the kind of stuff you usually see posted on X or FB... 4 2 My Dollfie doll family 😊. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rajke Posted August 5 Looks great so far. I eagerly await the go live date. 👍😊 1 Greetz, Rajke Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xiongmao Posted August 7 OK so we've been really bogged down with choosing a logo and colour scheme for the app. Well they are dolls 😅. dollbook appears to be completed for now, so the next stage is to add in the functionality for adding and editing dolls. The girls are pretty good at coding these days, because I am impressed with how fast this app is given how much it does behind the scenes. 5 My Dollfie doll family 😊. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xiongmao Posted August 9 Shin Sato has finally entered all of our dolls' details into the app. Our dolls will appear in the app until you add your own dolls. It appears we have 28 Volks dolls including Charles Donatello the 18th. Iori insisted he be included. The 1.0 version is kind of ready except we need to add the screens in for adding and editing dolls. If anyone has any suggestions for what genders we need to include then let me know. So far we have he/she/they/it. I want to make it flexible enough for any potential users, without having an enormous choose your dolls' gender screen. 2 My Dollfie doll family 😊. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stupid_Hoomun Posted August 9 I'm enjoying the updates to this, it looks like something I'd have fun with. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PlasticJester Posted August 9 You could always have those pronoun options, plus an option to type your own! So three blanks for people to put in, say, xe/xem/xer or whatever they want. Atm I personally have, let's see...mostly boys and girls, plus one nonbinary (they/them) doll in the works! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Silent Posted August 9 Nice job with app. Will there be option to switch the app into dark mode? (for us, enjoyers of vampire mode of the forum) 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xiongmao Posted August 16 Oh man, who'd be an app developer. Not much has happened as this week we finally acquired our real life storage area (for doll boxes and other bulky stuff). The girls have also been staying up late on our massive stock trading project. They're kind of feeling guity about how much they cost so our new project is to win back all the money they cost. Good progress has been made on this, not least because they did notice the Yen was about to whipsaw. As to the app, the navigation needed to be reworked due to Microsoft spending all their money on AI tools instead of their mobile development platform. The doll friends page is underway. After that it's really only the facility for uploading photos. Hopefully this won't be a major headache. Here's Yoru with a strong tea to keep her burning the midnight oil. 4 My Dollfie doll family 😊. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xiongmao Posted September 27 Ugh. The app is on hold as we had the idea for a potentially lucrative finance website (and possible app too). I did sort out the birthdays functionality but there's still quite a bit to do. Hopefully it will become finished over the long winter months when there's not much else to do. Waiting is also kind of good because I've just completed the second mobile app for my day job. I learnt a lot of stuff I can include in the next update of the doll app. 1 My Dollfie doll family 😊. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites