Sunday 17 February 2013

Dive logging becomes more fun

While Mario is doing a bad job in Koh Tao (Apparently he is to shy to walk into shops with a little flyer about Diveary), Victor and Jiangti came up with some pretty cool features.

Let's put this in a quick list, so you can see what's new:

  • Notifications
    Whenever someone follows you or logs you as a buddy in a dive, you will be notified. So you don't really have to look for the activities you are involved in on your Diveary homepage.

  • Copy Dive
    Now this is one of our favourites. Whenever someone published a dive you were part of, you now have the opportunity to copy that dive over to your logbook. Meaning less logging work for you, since you might have seen the same critters at the same spot anyway. You only have to adjust your personal notes, your air consumption, weights and so on.

  • Little things
    The devil is in the details. So we also had to fix a bunch of little issues. Facebook just recently changed their API calls, but we had no one to call. Mr Zuckerberg was apparently busy or demanded USD 100 for even reading his emails. Mario was complaining about slow internet, so we gave him a little loading icon whenever his log page is busy loading species or dive sites. Mr Google didn't like our page titles for dives, but we also could satisfy him. And this list goes on and on.... but yeah we are on it and love doing it ;-)

Happy Logging

Wednesday 30 January 2013

Features in progress

Hi there,

we were able to fix most of the issues that came up during our first week. We are now working on some more features.

  • Profile Link 
    Now you get your unique Nickname on your profile page url (just make sure you set your nickname under settings (Example: http://diveary.com/profile/mario)
  • Emails
    We had some issues, sending out Emails, they went all straight to the spam folder. We integrated an email gateway to make sure we reach our buddies when we tag them in a dive. This is still work in progress, but we are close to drown the spam filters.
  • Notifications 
    This is a feature soon to be released, we want to know if someone tags us in a dive or follows our deep water activities.
  • Dive Log Imports
    Some of us have dive computers and hell yeah we don't want to type in every single dive we did, since it's given in a nice digital format already. This will hopefully be finished early next week and looks good so far. It comes with a fancy little graph which then shows your exact dive profile.
Happy logging....

The imported dive profile data in early stages,...

Notifications in development

Tuesday 22 January 2013

Diveary - first beta version


We are damn proud to announce the release of our first beta version of Diveary. A beta Version (for the non-nerd) is a version that might have some errors. So don’t get mad at us in case you discover something we have overseen, but we would love you to send us a little message about it. Just use contact@diveary.com and we will get our hands on it straight away.

Despite that fact, it looks really nice and we already have fun logging our dives. So what are you waiting for ?  Get your hands on it! http://diveary.com

May the bubbles be with you

Your Diveary Team
Victor, Jiangti and Mario

just a little screenshot

Wednesday 9 January 2013

Quality takes time


... would be a professional or a political excuse for not delivering Diveary as promised last year. The truth is, that most of us have been on Christmas holidays, back home or on a road trip in Australia and haven't really had time for our precious project. We have collected content though and we can already post this content on Diveary.

We've picked up our work again this year and finished most of our promised features. We currently gave access to the "live" version to selected beta users. Let us know, if you are keen to play with it just yet, even though you might get some emails twice or your tablet version still looks a bit funny and we can set you up. But you might find some bugs -> which is the whole point of it...

Victor and Jiangti are now on fire in regards of programming. Mario is on fire too, but more in a "bush fire" kind of sense. He is making his way to through the desert from Sydney to Port Lincoln to see one of his favourite sharks.

Thank you guys for staying tuned. We will keep you posted. And many thanks to our beta tester team, you guys are annoyingly precise when it come to logging a dive ;-)