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Welcome to the "Fred's Roadtrip Storyteller" project wiki!

note: link to play store not publicly active yet

Current project progress: https://github.com/users/realityexpander/projects/2

Marketing Site: https://fredsroadtripstoryteller.com

Promo video:

Original design: Figma design

MVP Features

Splash screen

• Only shown during startup / Asking for permissions
• Show "permissions" splash screen during permissions handling

Main Screen

• As driver of car travels along, marker data within settings-designated radius is searched "Seen Radius"
• Markers are added to a Google Map view
• A list of (5) recently seen markers within a certain "Seen" radius is kept
  • Markers in list can be tapped to open Marker Details bottom sheet
  • A marker can be tapped to speak the title & short description & full description
    • Talk button can be tapped again to stop talking
    • Another marker can be tapped to start talking
• Markers can be spoken automatically as they are seen
• Ability to choose speak the title or title + marker details
• Play/Pause button on map to start/stop background tracking
• Button to center map on user's location
• Turn map elements on/off
  • Satellite/Map view
  • Show markers
  • Show heatmap (Android only for now)
• Marker Info panel can be shown/hidden
• New markers show up as Red.
  • After a marker has been spoken it turns light-grey
• Size of load are is limited to 2 miles
• Long-press on marker info will launch navigation
• Ability to navigate from details panel and recently seen list

Speech

• Speak each encountered marker automatically based on settings
  • Speech settings are set by system
• Choose to hear title only or title and description

Marker Details Panel

• Title & Description
• Photo of marker (if any)
• Navigate to Marker location using Waze or Google Navigation
• Locate marker on the map
• Tap a button to open navigation app for driving directions to marker

Settings Panel

• Automatically scan for markers while in background when app starts (default to off)
• Settings on how to speak queued markers, one after another.
  • Don't automatically speak
  • Speak just title (& subtitle?)
  • Speak title and description (paid feature)
• Set Seen radius (how far ahead to start speaking marker info)

Notifications

• Display notification to indicate background tracking on Android
• Notification indicates if searching or speaking the current marker
• Stop & turn off automatic speaking of markers from the notification

1.0 Features

Trial Version is Unlimited

Details

• trial starts when outside 25 miles of initial app start location.
• Trial notice is displayed and trial count down starts.
• Trial lasts 3 days (72 hours)
• Trial ends with a notice
• Can't look at details nor speak details after trial ends
• Will continue to collect markers, speak titles, add to recently seen list
• Dialog will appear when attempting to view details, encouraging purchase

Additional features

• Live chat? Or just email support?

Possible future Pro/Subscription features

• Seen Markers retained in a user account
• Offline cache of wider area?
• Commute mode (more than 45 minutes driving, start speaking markers automatically, if app is launched)
• Translate title & description to another language
• Offline use (download entire database of HMDB.org markers so no wifi/cel is needed)
• Queue unlimited markers
• Load radius is 20 miles instead of 2

Suggestions from 12/15/23

1. Dont collect any more markers
2. Dont speak markers
3. Dont allow zoom-in on marker images
4. Speak "Trial ended" before each marker
5. Limit to 1 recently seen marker
6. Dont allow collecting markers in background

Original source document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fW_HEITiwwOybwgamDXJRozgRy83eUpRkkFu0CcaioY/edit