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Show HN: Curiosity, a context-aware Wikipedia reader for iPhone

28 points| jeffd | 10 years ago |tamper.io

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kenhaggerty|10 years ago

Very cool. At some point I'll have to get a Watch to see what it's like having it on my wrist, but the iPhone app itself is a fun time killer.

What was the most interesting / surprising / difficult part about making the Watch portion of this app?

jeffd|10 years ago

The hardest part of the watch portion is just the testing and debugging. It takes a long time to install on the device and get a real feel for the speed of the app.

The other hard part is figuring out what feels right on the wrist, that part I'm still figuring out.

thehoff|10 years ago

Great idea, I even went to the store and purchased it (I'm that guy, the one that never buys apps).

Alas, the app won't open, it keeps crashing upon startup (6s+) so I can't even play with it.

jeffd|10 years ago

Bummer, I'll try and hunt down the crash logs and see what's happening.

grinich|10 years ago

Is this built with Swift or Objc-C?

jeffd|10 years ago

It's 100% Swift, with some Obj-C libraries.

wingerlang|10 years ago

Cool, although I really wish it was free and with an iAP to unlock it. Or a lite version. I want to give it a go for some days to see if I really use it.

How do you get the items by location?

jeffd|10 years ago

I thought about doing some sort of free version of the app with IAP, but it was very hard to find a way to do it that didn't make the app feel too restricted. I might toy with the idea in the future, are there any good examples that you like?

I get the items using the GeoData extension of the MediaWiki API: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData