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Finish Line

Hey folks! All of the apps have been redesigned, but I haven't published the updates yet. The biggest hurdles have been jumped over at this point, and I'm feeling positively that I am nearing completion of the app. It's taken me about a year to feel certain of it, but here are the steps to the finish line:

- Fix the metronome. How? Instead of being built into the app ( how it currently is ), the app will play a link to the BPM selected by the user and it'll be looped.

- Update the custom button to have a "play in order" and "shuffle" button on the screen so the user can make a simple list.

- Playlists button will be where you can build and SAVE songs. No account creation required. Just pop a song into the data base, search the data base for songs. 

- Crate alert windows the user can do the know "Do not show again" option to give a small tutorial on the screens of how things work

The last point I'm excited but also nervous about. Kind of makes me think of the old days of Youtube where anybody can put anything in there... and I have to moderate that list to make sure there's nothing inappropriate in there so that if there are kids using the app, they're not seeing any curse words. 

Not sure how long all of this is going to take me. I'm in the brainstorming stage right now where I want to try and make this as least design work heavy as I can so I'm not completely flipping everything on it's head. And like I said in my last post, the challenge will be not in my ability to get everything done all at once, but to pick pick pick away at things when I have time until things start coming together.

Then duplicate it for the Bass. Have a Guitar, Ukulele, Bass Rukus app. 12 apps total. Hopefully the bass app will be super simple. Duplicate the app once it's all polished, put the new chords in there, publish.

Boy oh boy. Then I gotta figure out how to get thousands of people to use my app. Fuck

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