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[Watchapp][open source] Micro Lens - view your Instagram feed!

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Hi, I wanted to announce that I published my app titled 'Micro Lens'. It is an app for interacting with Instagram on the Pebble, however it is very limited at the moment. Instagram's API serves jpg images, which means I have to convert the images to png. Currently, I have the app setup to use 'CloudConvert' for the conversion and manipulation process. This process is free only for the first 25 "conversion minutes" per day. I purchased 500 of them as a one time payment, but as more users use the app, it will probably stop working pretty fast unless I purchase more. For this reason I plan on just rewriting the app's settings config to use PHP and imagemagick to host the conversion process myself. Right now the app's settings config is using an express js app for authentication, but I'm already hosting it, which is why I might as well perform the image conversion process as well.

Also, the app crashes for me usually at about the third image in the feed. This is probably a result using pebblejs - I don't think it's equipped to handle on-the-fly image downloads to the pebble. For this reason, I'd like to rewrite the app in C and use the phone's local storage to cache the images (up to 20 at a time at the moment?).

Also, after these fundamental changes, I'd then like to incorporate the ability to "like" photos, the activity feed, and maybe "commenting" down the road if Instagram approves that access for my app.

Please provide constructive criticism, I'm pretty pumped about publishing an app for pebble, even though it's pretty beta at best right now.

Here's the links to the pebble app and the express app - all of it is open source.

https://github.com/jgrayillustrate/microlens

https://github.com/jgrayillustrate/microlens_settings

Thanks!

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