Postal is a private sharing social service, learning from the postal elements in the real world. It is designed to be anti-excessive-sharing, and only have one-to-one communication between users and all the journals are private for the user self. Users send postal to each other and keep journals as notes, videos, images, audios and web parts.
- We wish friends to have a longer connection.
- We wish moments to be taken as memories.
- We wish sharing be and only be an expression of miss.
- We wish journals to be kept to to yourself.
*See a Chinese version at the end of this document.
#Idea matters
#Screenshots(Postal Android)
**Connect with friends cross platforms. **
On March 10, 2015, which is today, Apple officially released their new product – Apple Watch. Together came with a new Xcode with WatchKit. With this tool, we built Postal Wear for Apple Watch. On the watch, logics are simplified. Just press the screen, you can record your reading, sleeping, running that easy. The activities recorded on your phone will be transferred to your phone and then be uploaded into the server.
As for the Android team, we choose Geak Watch II to be the device supported by Postal. The device carries Android 4.3 and sells well over the world. The logics here are similar to that on Apple Watch.
*See respective repo to reach Postal iOS/ Postal for Apple Watch/ Postal for Geak Watch II.
Our team are consisted of three developers, Zhongyi TONG, Fengshuang LI and Qi ZHANG. A minimum team and a clear division of work maximize the efficiency of the whole project.
| MEMBERS | RESPONSIBILITY |
|---|---|
| ZHONGYI TONG | Product management. |
| . | Art design. |
| . | Geak watch development |
| . | Android front-end development. |
| FENGSHUANG LI | Android back-end development. |
| . | Server-to-local interface and local data persistence. |
| . | iOS development. |
| . | Apple watch development. |
| QI ZHANG | Aliyun server and database deployment. |
| . | Database interface design and implementation. |
We use Github as a collaborative tool, so that our development can go parallel on individual devices. The Postal project has five repos under organization iShamrock.
#Architecture
- See respective repo to reach Postal Server.
#Chinese version 有了QQ微信，我们直达世界上任何一个角落，但依旧活跃在身边的小圈子中，每天与同样的人聊天。曾经亲密无比的小伙伴，抑或是某次聚会相识的好友，也随着时间渐渐淡忘，变成了通讯录中上千名片中的一个。或许，你经历过一个人的旅行，火车上遇到了志同道合的TA，一起度过了那段旅途，过后剩下的却只有美好的回忆？
其实，这些遗憾也可以不再有。在信息科技瞬息万变的今天，明信片这一怀旧复古的情感表达方式，其实从未被彻底抛弃。朋友好久不联系，点开微信却不知聊些什么，为何不寄一张明信片呢？一面之缘的匆匆过客，为何不能成为笔友，分享你们的生活呢？真正的友情，不需要仪式般的聊天，不需要频繁的见面，只要沟通的纽带还在。
Postal就是这条纽带。文字、照片、短视频，甚至是暗藏惊喜的HTML代码，都可以变成一张精美的明信片或是书信，盖上由你状态生成的邮戳，线上寄给你的好友。好友将过一段时间后收到，就像现实中一样。旅途中遇到那个TA，摇一摇手机就能成为信友。
Postal，不仅连接你和好友，也连接你和自己。掌握了新技能，每天起床晨跑，到了新地方，就给自己盖一个戳。“连续晨跑100天”“坚持阅读7天”，每天都有新的成就。记录你的生活，戳一下手表，就是这么简单。