What are you doing with TouchDB?

[Jens Alfke]

Hey everyone,

Here at Couchbase Towers we’re starting to plan out our post-1.0 mobile strategy*. And we’d love to hear from you about what you’re using TouchDB for. We’ve got the In The Wild wiki page listing the handful of shipping iOS apps, but I know there are apps for iOS and Android that haven’t shipped yet, and is anyone building Mac apps? We want to know!

You can reply here, or if you have things you’re willing to tell us but not post in public, you can reply to me directly.

Thanks!

—Jens

* which definitely includes getting Android to 1.0 too! Thanks for being patient.

[Aaron]

Hi there,

This is as good an occasion as any to announce my new iPhone app here. Tiberius is a personal logging app "from the future" — using an interface inspired by the future, you can record your own personal logs, in audio or video. Tiberius uses CouchDB to store and replicate recording metadata from the device to a web server. One of the most powerful features of Tiberius the ability to share recordings; thanks to TouchDB and CouchDB, that happens seamlessly.

You can learn more about Tiberius on my site: http://tiberiuslog.com

It should go without saying that I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the efforts of Jens and the rest of the CouchDB dev team. 

Cheers!

Aaron

[Jens Alfke]

On Nov 9, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Aaron <aaro...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is as good an occasion as any to announce my new iPhone app here. Tiberius is a personal logging app "from the future" — using an interface inspired by the future, you can record your own personal logs, in audio or video.

Congratulations, Aaron!

I’ve added it to the In The Wild page.

—Jens

[Alexander Gabriel]

maybe this is the right moment to mention that I am watching this group because I'm hoping to discover a method to get couchapps working with touchdb...

 

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[J. Chris Anderson]

I put together this hello world HTML5 environment on TouchDB https://github.com/jchris/HelloTouchApp

[dyowee]

Here's my app sir: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trigram-mobile/id565019355?mt=8

Thanks!

[Eduardo Scoz]

Hi guys,

Here at the Sears Tower we're in the last few days of development on a newsstand magazine for a large publisher that uses TouchDB to synchronize stories with the server. Even background updates works perfectly. Once the app goes live I'll post the app info!

[Eduardo Scoz]

I should probably say that it's at the Sears Tower, but the company is not the Sears, its Redpoint Technologies (redpointtechnologies.com). 

[Eran Riesenfeld]

Hallo there,

Am Dienstag, 13. November 2012 21:43:10 UTC+1 schrieb Eran Riesenfeld:

Concerning the "In the Wild" wiki page, I will ask for confirmation to mention our App there. There should be a decision by tomorrow.

I got approval about posting our Company information as user of TouchDB. And I added the entry at "In the wild"

/Eran

[Paul Capestany]

I've used TouchDB for everything that I think it's possible to use it for — I don't have anything that's officially released and "in-the-wild" yet though. I have one pretty big consumer-facing app still undergoing beta testing, and a couple different smaller/personal apps in various stages of development.

The whole suite of tech that you guys have put together is amazing. While I've been mostly focused on using TouchDB coupled with Syncpoint + CouchDB for the iOS apps, I've also been playing around with some of the other stuff that's out there. I'm about to start devoting some more serious time digging into BaseCouch, since I know that at some point soon there needs to basically be a complete switch from CouchDB → Couchbase. I've also been hacking up some web apps with PouchDB, so I'm very much interested in just about everything/anything that's doable with this code!

Slightly off-topic: I'm sort of amazed that more indie developers aren't all over this btw. For example, when I take the time to explain everything that TouchDB/Couch(base) does to my iOS friends, they're pretty blown away by it.. yet it appears to be such a departure from what they're used to that they seem to prefer staying in the Stone Age of mobile/web development — using tools that don't really require thinking differently. I'm not complaining though, I love having a huge head start over everyone else ;)

[Tobin Harris]

My company is using TouchDB to develop an iPhone ticket scanning solution for a customer. It's been used 3 times now in night clubs and festivals. 

TouchDB and CouchDB have been awesome. Hats off to Jens and co! 

We've had 15 people scanning 10,000 tickets within a few hours. TouchDB allows each phone to detect if a ticket has already been redeemed within seconds, all the phones are kept up to date. 

The box office at each event can see real-time stats on their laptop, which runs a CouchDB instance, and an API developed in Sinatra (Ruby).  

Coordinators can also see the status of each phone, including remaining battery and if it's still sending data. Each phone posts a heartbeat document to couch each minute to achieve this.

So, we're having fun with TouchDB! We've been using it for about 7 weeks, and I'd recommend it strongly. The learning curve was a rather steep, but I think that's because we haven't used CouchDB much before either. Anyway, thanks guys for the awesome tech that makes sync and schemaless development easy as pie on iOS and Android :)

T

[Katrin Apel]

Hi,

my first iOS app "Lingster - German" is an app to create, study and share German flashcards. It has been in the app store since September and the second release has been approved yesterday:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lingster-german/id555966178

This app relies heavily on TouchDB and wouldn't have been possible wihthout it, so many, many thanks for all the work you put into this!

Until now the app still manages to have a hosted CouchDB as the only backend, so I guess the app is as couchy as it can get :)

-Katrin

[Gaara]

I'm using Touchdb on Android to create a loyalty unified loyalty platform.

I'm getting kind of jittery because the main contributor to the project seems to be busy with Couchbase server 2.0.

I know its open source and all, but i'm just waiting for TouchDb to actually hit a stable release, until which i'm still going to continue using the dev build only :)