Knowing your app (part 27) happy mother's day.

Happy mother's day to every mother out there. Dead or alive you're still loved and would forever be loved. You shall not be forgotten and will forever be remembered. Massive thank you for all the sacrifices you've all made for your kids and we shall continue to cherish you forever. And to everyone  who has their mum alive and around I hope you treated her to something nice today. Wish you the best of weeks. If she's far away don't forget you can always leave her something sweet on the Just Talk messaging app.

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Knowing your app (part 25) My story. developing an app with zero development skills.

In the past few weeks, I have been getting wonderful feedbacks on my app. It is far from what it should be but it has been doing better than I expected and i'm very grateful to everyone who has been supportive so far. Many people do not know how long it has taken me to build the app and many make several hypothesis of how I have managed on. The Idea of Just talk came to me more than a year ago. At this time I had no app development skill. I knew nothing about coding languages and how they codes actually worked. But I had with me the most brilliant idea ever. How did I know this was a brilliant idea? easy, I believed in it, I told people and I entered it in a completion. The feedbacks from people were both encouraging and depressing but I worked on the criticized points of the app improved the already good parts and best of all I was successful in the competition.

At that point it felt I have gotten a certificate that said to me confidently that my app would change the world. With this in my mind the next stage was to build the app. With no app development skills I obviously needed to find help. I spoke to a couple of people and I was advised to find  co-founder who was good with app coding. How was a fresh graduate who studied BSc economics and MSc Entrepreneurship going to find someone to join him in a crazy new project. Not being in University anymore just makes things harder as there are less people to ask questions. All I thought I had was the brain of think of the idea and that was it. Well I studied entrepreneurship at a good university so I had to do something somehow. Perhaps using the degree somehow would be a good start. I decided to begin my hunt for a co-founder. As I was succesful in my competition i had some acces to university and it's facilities so became a stalker at the computer science department at the University of Liverpool trying to find someone to join me. I spoke to a couple of people and they loved the idea but the challenges and the work was enough to put them away. Most of them were students so I didn't really get the best of help there as they had their university work to bother about also. Then I went on Facebook and linkedin perhaps a few messages to a couple of people should find me a co-founder. Fortunately I did find two people who were students. I was able to spark some interest in them, but they had university work to do and coding challenges deterred them. It wasn't totally a loss at time this time because one of them did teach me one or two things about coding. The moment I discovered I could grasp some knowledge about coding I decided to do some more learning. next thing I knew I found myself watching coding videos on YouTube.

I started learning one or two things about app development. It didn't take me long enough to learn that my dyslexia was going to become a deterrent. Reading and writing long words were just not my thing. Thus didn't stop me from writing 40 pages of words describing my app, all its features and however button should work in details though. After a number of YouTube videos it was time to start getting things done. I knew I couldn't do it alone because even after learning one language I had to code the server end anyways. I decided I would do something with my newly learnt skills and begin creating my app.

I decided to divide the development of my app into different stages. Front end, back end and Server end. Inbetween those ends I also divided into other smaller stages. I went on LinkedIn to scout for developers. At this stage I was no longer looking for co-founders as I had given up on that move and decided to do things myself. I needed to find a way to create the app in the cheapest way ever. I began messaging people I believed would be able to develop parts of the app for pretty low prices. Learning how coding works made me look and feel knowledgeable and was able to convince the people I spoke to that what I was asking for was little and didn't require much work. prior to speaking to this people I had already completed my very long description of how everything about the app works and had gone on pain to draw how the app should look. (Talk about designing skills) so yeah, I basically designed everything about my app. My brother was able to convert it from the paint look to a more realistic look on photoshop. I spoke to someone who made me a fully functional front end for a very cheap price. I went on freelancers.com to scout for developers. obviously no one very good was going to do it for cheap. If I at all did find someone who could do it for a cheap price, it would mean I was going to find someone who only just learnt how to code and was going to use my app as practice. To be fair I didn't mind so I went for it. Most of the new app developers who were happy to develop the app for a cheap price where Indians and language was a great barrier, explain exactly what you wanted was a task on its own. I had to break every stage down in very little bits so they could understand and begin developing, in many cases I've had to do some research on how to get along with certain parts of the app and teach the developers how to do it. It didn't go very smoothly if  I'm honest. I went through three different sets of developers with one set containing a minimum of about three people. Changing hands from one developer to another was also a challenge as it too about one month for some of the new developers to get used to the codes and understand where everything are.

The challenges just never stopped but I managed anyways. I went through so many even after finding the developers who are still the best till date. I have managed to create the app and made it available on the app store. updates are still flooding in daily and will keep coming to improve user experience. Just Talk, is one of a kind. none that have ever existed and I very much love all it's users. Those I know and those plenty people who I've never met. Bless you all and I wish you all the best of days.
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Knowing your app. (part 24). Happy Sunday

First of all, I Just want to take this time to say HAPPY SUNDAY to everyone. Best wishes today and we hope you have a wonderful week ahead. I worked tirelessly last week and had no time to blog. 6am to 10pm daily. I'm now back and ready to blog again. The app "JUST Talk" is currently experiences notification issues. We're trying to find solutions to that problem because it seems to keep coming and going. Some times it works and some times it doesn't, however in the past two days, it has been the same thing. It has not worked at all. I'm certain it will be sorted by Monday (tomorrow).  we've also been experiencing great increase in the number of daily app downloads. I'm super excited about that and we expect this will keep improving. In the next coming days we would be uploading a new version of the app to the app store. It will contain, Facebook login and Just talk Cast. We're also still working on new filters which would be available soon. 32 new filters are projected to be available by the end of the year.

Knowing your app (Part 23) : Share Casts on Facebook. Coming soon

Hello world, hope we've all had a great weekend. I'm guessing most of us have been able to update to the latest Just Talk app version that was made available in the weekend. Recently we learnt that Just Talk would enable Facebook Login and Facebook sign up with Cast recording (Click here to find out more about Casts). However, there's something else thats new and was missed out, Facebook share. This feature will allow users to share both their cast messages and their Just talk contact's cast messages. This should be expected to be made available in the coming update. Wish you a wonderful Week ahead. Happy Talking.

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knowing your app (part 15) downloading and listening to your messages

I may have not gone through sending a new message just yet, but it will come soon. For now we will focus on downloading and playing receieved messages. This is because you may add me and I will send you a message immediately. Like I explained in earlier posts, feel free to send me a friend request on the app. My user name is "keshjacobs". downloading a message is very easy. On the timeline page/screen all the = information are clear and easy to understand. names/usernames of app users will appear here as well as indications for opened, unopened or deleted messages (more info in the "timeline page/screen") above. At the moment, receieved message will have an arrow facing the left. To download the message tap on the name/username bar. the message should begin downloading at that point, and a message saying "downloading" should appear immediately, if any other thing appears, please tap on it again. After downloading the message should change to "ready to play" tap on it to play the message. You would be able to play the message as many times as you want under 24 hours and the message underneath the Name/username should say "receieved" and the smiley besisdes the image would change. love and share the experience to the world. The instruction might look long as you read this post, but it is really easy to understand. I can very much assure you that you would be a pro in the first few seconds.

notice the smileys arrows and the texts in the picture below.

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Knowing your app (part 12) : News. got some interesting pics for you

Hello wonderful blog readers, back at it again. In my last post I indicated that there was going to be a new update coming sooner than expected. Well, i'm back again on it to let you know for sure that this update would surly be ariving sooner than I expected the last time (can't wait can i?). got some pictures about the new update i'll love to share. I would love you to do abit of guess work if you can. feel free to comment if you can. Plus I had a rethink about the link for new readers who do not know what the app is about so I thought it would be nice to put it at the bottom of the post for this one. But first here are some tease pics for the new update.

Feel free to do the guess work. Now for you new new users readers, what is Just Talk - DTJT about? It is a messaging app but this time for voice messages only and it allows users to use voice filters to change how they sound. You can listen to your messages as many times as you want but after 24 hours they would be deleted. This is regardless of whether you've opened them or not. I've you fail to open the messages withing 24 hours a smiley would be there to let you know you've not been very responsive to a friend. :D . don't text, just talk. keep talking people.

Knowing your app (part 8) Like and share, record and share.

We shall begin once again just how we love to. What is Just Talk? It is a new way of communication, a bespoke app for sending only voice messages and uses voice filters to change how you sound. It is available for FREE on the app store and would also be available for FREE on the google play store soon. unlike other apps, users can listen to their messages (audio messages) as many times as they please but after 24 hours they will be automatically deleted. This would also be regardless of them being opened or unopened. So if you send someone a message and they do not open it after 24 hours the message would be taken of the server and they would no longer have access to the message.




At ther moment the only way to share audio messages on the app is by sending audio messages to contacts who already use the app. We understand that some of you would love the voice filters and would love to share daily activities with friend's an family even if they do not have the app (an example would be to android users who may not be able to download the app at the moment). we have however found you a solution.  In the next coming days there would be an update which would allow user create podcasts (pod talk). Short podcasts that users and none users of the app can view and share on facebook. Please let me know what you think about this new and exiting feature. a message shall now be called a pod.





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