MemoLanes

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. ...