Ask HN: My app's featured on Walgreens Developer site, how to capitalize on it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8554326

by sunnynagra • 12 years ago

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https://developer.walgreens.com/blog/locations/immunization

sunnynagra4• 12 years ago

Direct Link to App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/immunizations/id914709957?ls...

aaronbrethorst2• 12 years ago

Capitalize on it how? Clearly you're doing that for some definition of the term given that it's on the front page of HN and the Walgreens developer website.

What are you hoping to get out of this exposure?

sunnynagra4• 12 years ago

Sorry that the it wasn't very clear. Is there any way to use the exposure on the Walgreens developer site to gain even more exposure?

aaronbrethorst2• 12 years ago

Why do you want exposure?

* Get more downloads of your app

* Build a consulting business

* ???

AznHisoka• 12 years ago

I don't actually think you're going to get as many downloads as you think from being in a blog almost nobody reads.

subrat_rout• 12 years ago

It is very impressive and nicely designed app. To make app capitalize, you can do following:

1. contact few bloggers who are prominent in healthcare area.

2. Does this app also contain locations for other pharmacy including Walgreen's? If not then contact other pharmacy chains such as Rite Aid, CVS etc. 3. Try to take part in different hackathon or contest related to healthcare and talk to people in the field.

Did you code it in Swift? I am curious how did you learn to code and what are the sources of learning materials.

sunnynagra4• 12 years ago

1. I will continue to reach out to several bloggers, hopefully this will help me receive a better response than I was previously.

2. The app allows anyone to enter in their pharmacy if they choose to. The developer team at Walgreens is very helpful and made it very easy to collect all of their location information.

3. I have not taken part in a hackathon before, I will be on the lookout for any in my area.

I did code the entire app in Swift. I dabbled in iOS programming but was never able to make anything substantial because I just didn't like programming in Objective-C. This app is the first app I have ever made on my own (I used to help a friend by designing apps together with him). The main source of learning material I used was Apple's PDF Swift book.[1] I also looked for tutorials here and there and would modify them to make them do what I wanted. It really ended up being a lot of trial and error as I am still trying to build upon my programming skills. I am a pharmacy student in my second year of pharmacy school with no formal training, just self-taught Ruby (Sinatra mainly) and web design.

If you have any specific questions, I would love to answer them.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...

Ask HN: My app's featured on Walgreens Developer site, how to capitalize on it?

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