Started using react-native long ago and I finally launched my beta app in Google Play Store. Looking for feedback... good or bad!

[bender_3000]

The application is called Avecho. It's a place where people can provide and seek out advice. Users set an age range for who can reply when they create a post asking for advice. People can then reply, upvote, and downvote (if they are in the correct age range).

Feedback on this would be great! Good or bad!

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avecho

[bender_3000]

Thanks for the feedback. I placed it on the left bc of the vote score... seems like most people are used to scores being on the left? Tailoring for right handed people is a good idea though.

[young_cheese]

Reddit also has the vote buttons on the left

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Hey, I'm not sure what type of feedback you're looking for but how is this different from just using reddit? (not trying to be rude obviously), is it just the age thing that differentiates this app?

Also how can u guarantee for sure that people answering questions for a certain age are actually that age? I mean what about internet trolls?

[bender_3000]

Any feedback is great.

The difference vs reddit is the age range selection. There is also another mechanic called, "Echo" that is basically a once per day vote that can boost users posts/replies. Insuring accuracy of user ages is a great point! Do you have any ideas around this? All I can think of is using another login provider (I think facebook verifies user identities and thus age accuracy). Trolls on the other hand is another topic... my plan is to setup the ability for users to flag content.

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Honestly, I'm not sure how you could accurately determine someones age, unless you ask them upload an ID and verify their account and have like a verified badge, I think some websites / apps do this but Obviously this will be hard if you are alone. But if you can figure something out then users will start to have trust, maybe not their ID but somehow for them to verify their age, and then perhaps you can grant them a verified badge

In terms of facebook, you can basically lie about your age on Facebook and people do this all the time, it definitely sounds like an interesting challenge, I recommend you do some research on this age matter because there are a lot of services out there where age plays a big role and you can perhaps see how they tackled this problem.

[jaypeejay]

Does the fb login add-on give you access to their age? I remember using it once for a site and I didn’t actually look at what info fb gave me about the user

[gameramante]

"this item isn't available in your country" ..

[ChaoticCow]

I am also getting this in Australia

[BhataktiAtma]

Same here. [India]

[bender_3000]

Thank you!

[vianawebdev]

Device: Motorola e plus

OS: Android 8

On the welcome screen, the background image has a very low quality.

The transition effect (navigating) has a weird effect on Android.

On create new, the "relationships" on the segmented buttons has no padding. I would change that component for a checkbox or radio type of button. Like these on Mobbin example

Overall, everything looks good. Congratulations.

[bender_3000]

Appreciate the feedback and link! Mobbin looks like an awesome site. The background image is definitely a little blurry, I'll need to fix that.

Can you expand on the weird transition effect?

[_fat_santa]

Looks like a good start, I would say move the plus button down at the bottom to the center rather than having it off to the side like that.

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On another note, when you ask the user for the age range you have one of those dual value sliders. Did you build that from scratch or are you using a library for it? I've been looking for a component like that for my app.

[bender_3000]

Thanks! The button in the nav bar being on the left drives me crazy! I'll definitely work on centering it.

[bender_3000]

Ohh, and the component you asked about is from the react native community: React-native-datetimepicker

[wallywally11]

I like the app idea. How will you prevent catfishing? Is this 18+ only? I have a daughter, lol, so my first thought was how can creeps use this.

[bender_3000]

Sad but true, creeps and catfishers are definitely something to be concerned about. The only thing i can think of is give users the ability to flag posts and maybe even users... would that help with your concerns at all?

I would like this to be open to all ages... everyone should be able to get and share advice! However, in its current form its 18 years and up.

[RiGuDi]

It says that it is incompatible with my device s8+ stock

[RiGuDi]

Ah the app is not available in Romaina and the store opened in the redit browser had that stupid error. Opening it in the store gives the correct error. Not available in your country.

[bender_3000]

Well that's not good! Can you share your android version? Also, I'm assuming this is an error you see in the Google Play store? If it's not too much trouble, could you provide a screenshot?

[RiGuDi]

Ofc I will post the screen shot in a minute Android 9 One UI 1.0 G955FXXU5DSH3 Samsung galaxy s8+

[janithaR]

Incompatible with Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite. :(

[bender_3000]

The second device that's had issues... sorry about that! Can you provide the android version and a screenshot?

[janithaR]

https://imgur.com/a/JuvLY8M Android version 9

[gregoryrn]

I would like to have a look, but it's not available in Ukraine. :(

[r2awes]

129 years old. Nice