Iphone App Ferry Boat Xport
Do you want to create a long-term programming relationship with a company in the USA?
Do you have very good written and comprehension communications skills in English?
Are you easy to work with, always available, and willing to go the extra-mile for a customer in order to build a strong working relationship?
If you answered YES to all three of these questions, this multi-generational project may be what you’re looking for!
I am looking for a developer who can work with me to create an iPhone application similar to:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=288902938&mt=8
The app will be slightly different, although a majority of the functionality (schedules, alerts, web cameras) will be similar. The look and feel will be similar. We will add more functionality over time, but the first generation will have a few more functions then the competing product. It will be offered for free on the iPhone App Store, and will feature advertisements so any experience you have with ads or ad systems on an iPhone (Google Adsense for iPhone) environment is a bonus.
I will be providing detailed and ordered screen shot pictures for the entire user experience as well as use cases, so you will know what each screen should say, how it will look, and how it will function. However, you – as the programmer – will be responsible for making it work, look and run in a polished and professional manner. You must have fantastic coding skills as well as common sense – if something doesn’t appear to work properly in my design, then we must have a dialogue about it. This should be a long-term partnership, not a one-time programming job (more about that below).
Most of the data will come from the Washington State Ferry website:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Ferries/Schedule/Small/PDA.aspx
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/Schedule/RSSFeeds/RouteAlerts.aspx?departingterm=7&arrivingterm=3
We will need to decide if the app should be built off of their site (reading in real-time from http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Ferries/Schedule/Small/PDA.aspx, for example), or if we should build a website that will read their website daily and then store it on our website. (So, yes, I’ll need your input as we architect this program.) Daily ferry boat schedules are only updated once per quarter, but service disruptions (http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Ferries/Schedule/Small/ServiceDisruptions.aspx) may happen throughout the day. If we build a website, I would like it to be built in ASP.NET with a SQL Server backend and it must be hacker safe (stored procedures, etc.).
Either way we determine to architect this app, we will need a website in order to store some information on individual usage (date/time, IP address, page, route, etc.). I’d also like to display advertising banners, so that will be served from a database on my website. (The website will only be for internal purposes: store data for reference of app, upload advertising campaigns, review app usage. There will be no front-end required for users as part of the first phase of this project.)
One of the most complex (fun!) things I’d like to do on this app is determine if any given ferry boat is on time (http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/commuter_updates/vesselwatch/index.cfm?vesselwatch_ind=4
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