JS.LA July Meetup - Hosted by HUGE Chris Mendez demonstratedĀ Geotunes - theĀ "world's largest index of place songs". Ā He also discussed the product development cycle and the efforts to get approved as a Spotify plugin.
Geotunes started as road trip app, intended to find music to listen to that was relevant to the place you're currently passing through. Ā It uses a modified D3.js geographical map as the base layer, and employs MongoDB and AWS in the backend, along with PHP and Javascript. The Spotify submission process (to get approved as a plugin) took about 7 months and it involved the following stages:
Concept - idea pitch
UX/Prototype - wireframing / mockups
Quality Assurance - no sloppy code
Development - app released in agile way; ensure 99.1% runtime
Security - appropriate data collection from app user
Sam L'Ecuyer talked about the struggle to handle file uploads in the browser and the creation of his own True Type font engine.
