MemoLanes

TL;DR MemoLanes public beta has started, come and give it a try: https://app.memolanes.com/ MemoLanes is a route tracking application designed to conveniently record and securely store your travel footprints while providing rich visualization. Through continuous exploration of the world, you can create unique digital traces, allowing you to revisit and relive your treasured travel memories. Some background stories about developing this app can be found in this blog post of mine. After two and a half years (weird chinese meme intended[1]) of development, we are proud to announce that MemoLanes has started public beta testing! This means that as long as you don’t mind some potential stability issues and missing of certain details in the beta software, you should come and try it 🙏. Currently, we provide the iOS beta version on TestFlight and offer APK downloads for Android users. Later, we will also provide the beta version on Google Play and bring this app to more platforms (e.g., HarmonyOS). You can find more information on our official website. ...

TL;DR We’re developing an open-source travel visualization app called MemoLanes. It’s currently in small-scale testing, and I recently switched from Fog of World to MemoLanes during a trip to Australia and New Zealand. If you’re interested in joining the internal testing, feel free to email me(zed@zijun.dev)! Project Link：https://github.com/MemoLanes/MemoLanes As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been pretty addicted to an app called Fog of World, and during 2021 and 2022, I spent quite a bit of my spare time developing a third-party extension tool called Fog Machine. Through this process, I picked up some knowledge about this domain and started forming my own ideas. It might just due to being a programmer, but I often find myself thinking about how I would design things differently, how I would implement the feature. I roughly formed this idea around April 2023, and it took me about a month to go from trying to come up with a name to giving up on naming it altogether (There are three hard software engineering problems: 1. naming; 2. cache invalidation; 3. off-by-one errors). Then in May, on a work trip to London, I created a folder with the weird codename ProjectDV on the plane and started designing the data structure and choosing the tech stack. After a bit over a year working on this part time, I kicked off small-scale testing around August this year. ...