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podcast I'm your host Jim Harmer and today is a very exciting today,

something I've been teasing for way too long.

The really good PhotosPots app is now live on the App Store.

So in this episode, I kind of want to just give all of the behind the scenes

information that may not be obvious when you're using the app and kind of help you

to become power users and to take advantage of all the things in the

app that the others may not notice.

Now the app is pretty straightforward and easy to use.

It's not complicated at all we've really I've tried to be

as careful as possible to get just the right feature set in there so it's easy to

use and and easier to develop.

I've been teasing this project for forever.

I remembered on my first trip to Iceland,

we had some conversations years ago about this app and what it might look like and I've talked with hundreds and hundreds of you guys as we've gone out and shot together about you know what, what features it would need, what would be required

to make an app like this succeed.

And then finally in March 2015, I sat down and I started putting pen to paper and I wrote down you know exactly what it would need what it would cost to do it

starting to work out the original designs and and we refined them and refined them and if eventually we got to the end of of 2016 last year that we really started to go with things I mean we hired the developer, started the active development of it, and then I was

hoping at that time that we could release it in March and April and May and hour May and an hour to July.

I've never done a project like this.

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