Gastromapa Lukáše Hejlíka
We like good food. And we like nice apps. So why not bring those two together?
1 year, 1 500 hours
01 Home
Lukáš Hejlík likes to travel and eat a lot. We like to read his reviews and try out the places he recommends. And since we missed Lukáš’s Gastromapa for our phones, we decided to create it ourselves.
Lukáš Hejlík likes to travel and eat a lot. We like to read his reviews and try out the places he recommends. And since we missed Lukáš’s Gastromapa for our phones, we decided to create it ourselves.
Client:
Lukáš Hejlík
System:
iOS & Android
Year:
2018–2019
Difficulty:
+ 1 000 hours
02 Assignment
All new
Basically, we developed the assignment ourselves. We proposed a way that didn’t create more work for Lukáš Hejlík while adding significant value.
We didn’t really like the way the online Gastromapa looked. And if you’ve ever tried to find a review of a specific place on Facebook, you’ll surely agree that it takes time and it wouldn’t really be your choice when you’re already hungry. What to do about it, though?
Concept
Design
UX
Development
Deployment
Care
Basically, we developed the assignment ourselves. We proposed a way that didn’t create more work for Lukáš Hejlík while adding significant value.
All the data in the app is gained through Facebook API and aggregated and processed in our own back-end. At the beginning, Facebook wasn’t too willing to share its data (information about the restaurants), but eventually we managed to give sufficient reasons for our needs and got access to the information.
Concept
Design
UX
Development
Deployment
Care
03 Overcoming obstacles
Overcoming the obstacles…
04 Highlights
…to reach the stars
…to reach the stars
Reviews on Facebook
Lukáš publishes reviews on Facebook. When he tags a place and adds several hashtags, we process the post and insert it into the app.
Popular not only in our office
Gastromapa is popular not only in our office. Fans sponsored the development of the app by purchasing it upon opening (today it’s available for free with the option to donate), and the rest was covered by a sponsor in return for advertising.
Unique acess to data
It took one month of emailing with Facebook to convince them that the only voting we wanted to influence was about where to have dinner. And now we have access to the data about those places.
Facbook
All the data in the app is gained through Facebook API and aggregated and processed in our own back-end. At the beginning, Facebook wasn’t too willing to share its data (information about the restaurants), but eventually we managed to give sufficient reasons for our needs and got access to the information.
Swift & Kotlin
Development for Android done in Kotlin on the MVVM architecture, while for iOS it was developed in Swift and MVVM-C. The back-end was written in PHP and runs on Czech rosti.cz. Businesses and reviews are saved in a MySQL database, and the API by Seznam Mapy helps us find the addresses.
Feedback
In the app, we focused heavily on user feedback. In addition to standard system elements, we also used the Lottie library for animating, as it takes care of comprehensive animations which make a much better impression during interaction with the user interface.
05 Results
People love it
People love it
Based on reactions on social networks, people simply love the mobile Gastromapa, and it’s already been downloaded by more then 100 000 users.
Now we’re working on a new website that will look better and will be easier to work with.
Based on reactions on social networks, people simply love the mobile Gastromapa, and it’s already been downloaded by more then 100 000 users.
Now we’re working on a new website that will look better and will be easier to work with.
downloads
profile views
monthly active users
06 Recognition
Awards
Gastromapa Lukáše Hejlíka
1st place in the category Small and Starting Projects - IEA
Gastromapa Lukáše Hejlíka
3rd place in the category Mobile apps - IEA 2019