Category: Behind the Scenes at RunPee
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How do I decide which new movies to add to the RunPee database?
This is one of the hardest management decisions I have to make for RunPee. It’s hard because I have incomplete information. I can’t know how popular a movie will be before it’s released. Here are the general guidelines I follow when making the decision. The Ease Choice If it’s a well-known wide-release movie, then it’s…
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Tails from Asheville, North Carolina
Many of you may know that RunPee HQ is based in our home in Asheville, North Carolina. Actually, if you’re familiar with the area we live just outside of Asheville in a small town called Swannanoa. Many of you have probably never heard of Swannanoa, or the Swannanoa River, until yesterday. Now, it seems both…
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Using AI to improve Peetimes
AI is revolutionizing many professions, including our work at RunPee. While I’ve used AI (Copilot) for years to assist with coding, we’ve recently discovered its potential to enhance a crucial aspect of our service: crafting the perfect Peetime Synopsis. Our team still handles the essential task of watching movies to select Peetimes, but summarizing missed…
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The brother and sister team behind the Peetimes
A RunPee fan recently commented that he thought the RunPee app was just another app created by an app farm to make money. He was delighted to discover that it’s a bootstrapped company created and maintained by a small family. RunPee: A Brief History You can read the details here, but the idea for the…
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What to do when the RunPee app crashes or you spot a bug
Monday night (August 5, 2024) was not a good night to need to use the RunPee app on Android. I updated the app in the Play Store and then much to my dismay got an email from a fan telling me that the app crashed for them every time they opened it. I checked and……
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RunPee Roadmap
Here’s what’s to come for the RunPee app in the next year or so. Cleaning House I have a super busy summer and fall ahead of me with work on my day job (CTO at Mapt.co). I generally reserve Thursday’s as RunPee Day. That’s the day we go see movies and I try to make it…
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RunPee at Google I/O
Google invited and more importantly paid for me to attend their developer conference in San Jose this year. This is the place to be if you’re interested in technology and specifically AI. At the end of the keynote they used AI to count how many times they said AI in all of the sessions: 120…
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How to help support RunPee without spending a penny
[image created with ideogram.ai] Tell your friends and family The secret to RunPee’s success isn’t that we provide a unique service for a niche problem, but that RunPee is also a fun story for people to share with others. It’s the reason the RunPee user base has grown as wide as it has without resorting…
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We Have WORM SIGN!
It’s probably not a shocker that February is generally a slow month for movies. Every few years we get a Black Panther, Thor Ragnarok, or Deadpool movie in February, but those are the exceptions. This year (2024), February had some lackluster movies, to say the least. Movies like Drive-Away Dolls, Bob Marley, Lisa Frankenstein, Argylle,…
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Meet the RunPee Family
I get a few user support emails each week and it’s always amusing to me to discover that many people think that RunPee is a company. And that’s not really the case at all. We’re a family and a pretty small one at that. Maybe a few people out there would find it interesting to see…
