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 a lite day because the last thing I want is to watch a movie and get Peetimes after having a crap-day at work. Therefor, at the very least I’ll be able to spend about three hours on Thursdays working on cleaning up features in the RunPee app.
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If there is anything in the app that you’ve noticed is a bit off, then please let me know in the comments below. This is the time to speak up.
Coming Soon, a Coming Soon Feature
Something I have wanted to do for a long time is add a coming soon section to the Movie List. That way you could see what movies are coming up in the next few weeks/months and give them a thumbs-up if you would like to have Peetimes for that movie. One of the difficulties I face is deciding which movies to add Peetimes for. If a movie is a wide release then we’ll do our very best to get Peetimes for it. But it’s the popular limited-release movies that give us fits. First, I don’t even know which ones are coming out all the time because there are so many to keep up with. And second, I can’t go see many of them anyway because they either don’t show here in Asheville, NC. Or, if they do, they show up in theaters a few weeks after premeiring in the big cities. That doesn’t do most of you all any good. So I have to pay someone else to go see the movie. That costs me $50 so I need to know if it’s worth it.
Multi-Lingual
Making the RunPee app multi-lingual is going to be a big bunch of work. I have no idea how long this will take to accomplish. My hope is that it will be ready by this time next year, but at this stage, that’s just a hope. This will require lots of updates, not just to the RunPee app but also to the database, and the RunPee admin app.
The reason I haven’t made RunPee multi-lingual before is because paying to translate Peetimes would be cost-prohibative. Fortunately, the advances in AI/LLMs has grown to the point that it’s doable. I’ll enter the Peetimes in English, and then use an API to get an LLM to translate those Peetimes into probably about three dozen languages, maybe more. Because once I add the functionality to to make RunPee work in two languages it’s no more effort to make it work in 200 languages.
Off the top of my head we’ll have Peetimes in every language spoken in the Europe, Chinese, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, all of the south Asian languages, Urdu, probably at least half a dozen versions of Hindi, and at least a few dozen languages representing Africa.
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July 11, 2019
I’ve loved this app for years and use it at the theater and home. Super easy to use and so helpful to know when it’s a good time to run for the restroom. I notify my kids when it’s close to time, so I don’t end up running them to the restroom multiple times. (Updated review from 4 to 5 . I’d had an issue with the app while at the theater and it was quickly resolved with FANTASTIC customer service. Thanks, RunPee!)
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There is one little problem, I personally be able to add Peetimes for “local” movies. To do that I will need to have local help who can go see movies and add them to the database. My plan is to track the donations made for each country individually. I will take 50% and use the other 50% to fund paying people to get Peetimes. If, for instance, I pay someone in China $50 to see a movie and do the Peetimes then once I get $100 in donations total from China then I can pay someone to go add Peetimes for a Chinese movie.
If you would be interested in doing this sort of work then please leave a comment below and we’ll talk.
And yes, of course, Minionese will be one of the translated languages. 🙂
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