Good question. I am a believer of change from within, but also, I do find joy in the tools I develop. They are not related directly to the company product software or its quality, but hopefully it helps others improve their development experience.
Thanks Leo. I've seen a few of Tal Kol's posts and talks, and it seemed to me that Wix was all in on React Native. Thanks for sharing a different point of view.
I've seen Tal's talks and based on his passion and enthusiasm I do not see Wix moving away from RN, for as long as FB actively pushes RN forward. If FB drops it that's a different story.
NativeScript does not support GL/ThreeJS but RN does so I expect games will be built on top of RN. And when that happens we should get lots of new entrants in the ecosystem and greater creative mass.
Like you said, one of our use cases is helping people find the right neighbourhood to stay in. Whether it's because they find it safe, close to things they'd like to see, or has the vibe and lifestyle they want to experience.
Your suggestions are interesting and we've had similar thoughts. Hope we'll be able to implement them soon.
Regarding your concerns:
We want Lucal to be a community project so we don't see ourselves paying freelancers directly.
You're right, covering off-the-path locations is definitely a challenge as public media sources for these are limited. We indeed need to incentivise locals to contribute to the platform. One such incentive is publicity for their area and small businesses within it. We hope to work with local businesses and get them to contribute media for their areas, providing content for us and getting their names out at the same time. Partnerships with local tourism boards could help us with this as well.
For more popular destinations it's easier to seed the media so we plan to do some of it ourselves at the start. We can attract users with these initially. Once we have a large enough user base we can start social media campaigns for lesser-known places to get the community to contribute to those.
Panoramio has a lot of nice photos but just by using it you can tell that it's outdated and not being actively developed. We want to do more than that: local live streams, videos (drone, vines, etc.) as well as VR with 360° photos and videos.
Our goal is to help you get a feel for any place as it currently is and see what's happening there right now, for example weekly local markets, festivals, annual events, etc. Thus the focus is on live and recent visual content that will stop being displayed after a certain time (possibly 1 month).
A cool thing we can potentially do with this is time travel. You'll be able to see what was happening at any place at any given time on Lucal with a timeline slider.
Google almost shut down the site to integrate exclusively in Googlemaps.
A lot of people responded, including the founders, and Google decided to keep for some time the service. Maybe you should check the Panoramio communities to see what they miss about.
I used Panoramio a lot when I was backpacking. Are you from Brazil too?
Oh are you from Brazil? We are not from there but are very fond of the place. My cofounders Anton and Brystal used to stay there for a while. Anton did live there for years at one point.
The author didn't include an optimisation that the React example has.
In React you can use the PureRenderMixin [0] to avoid re-rendering subtrees if the arguments passed in are the same. In virtual-dom there's something similar called Thunk [1].
I did a partial implementation of the demo here [2] using Thunk. You can see that it performs much better than React for many thousand items. Adding items is also faster using virtual-dom.
