I have been tinkering with the idea of creating a dating app for my university for quite some time now — A lightweight platform to discover people at Near East University. How would it work? That is the same question I asked myself perpetually for the last year. Yesterday…

I recently implemented the birthday feature and alpha tested it. In the event that it is a user’s birthday today, the app displays a cake emoticon next to their username and sends a notification to their followers to wish them on this day This is the first practical instance of…

I just added the ability to write posts in Markdown. Here is the first post edited and rendered in Markdown Markdown ability is only limited to the post/new route and posts added through the home page are not rendered as markdown. This is because of…

I spent the most of this fine friday hacking away a solution for the messaging feature on Bambi. Now, users can see their chat history all together and reply like a conventional chat application as opposed to the previous implementation where you could only send a message at once without…

Yesterday night I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be great if a guest user could view a user profile? I argued against this a few months ago since it literally ruins the essence of regular users having to follow each other to view each others posts Don’t get me wrong…

With the new user update, comes new changes too! You can now see when a user joined Bambi to add authenticity to legitimate accounts. Moreover, the age field now shows how many years ago you were born dynamically instead of the static age field from before. The new profile update…

In this new update of Bambi, I worked more on the backend to accomodate the infrastructure for the upcoming Bambi Dating Feature. But first, I wish to discuss the anonymous posting feature I teased before on Bambi Beta Anonymous Posting Wished you would say something just to get it out or to…

I just stumbled upon the new Facebook update with dark mode and a simplified user experience. I can’t help but marvel at how similar it looks to Bambi هارون

We just passed our first 1000 users on Bambi according to Google Analytics. Well, technically 962 users by last month. With this new milestone, I wanna discuss the new features on Bambi. 1. Privacy I started exprerimenting with anonymous postings on Bambi Beta where users could post content and no one would…