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Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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New app page
Now we got over all the excitedness in launching our new app, we found time to update the app page on our site. Beautiful scenes here over at MMAC HQ.
Phew, after literally months of testing, tweaking, redeveloping and just trying to ensure v2 of our beautiful little app is perfect for you all, we've done a silent little iOS launch today! If you're on an iOS device you can find it here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/make-me-a-cocktail/id1541820377
Android is coming soon!
We're gonna leave this one settle in a bit, keep an eye on the logs, how its used, gather some feedback from the wild, then tweak and bug fix anything that crops up. Once thats all done we'll get the Android version out for you. We're hoping we get it out before Christmas, so watch this space!
A little bit out there but we added our tech stack to be made public. Not really an update but its nice to be transparent on things.
We also added some sections to our uptime monitor to better represent areas of operation that could go down separately.
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Cocktail creator
We created our amazing Cocktail Creator a good 6-7 months ago (at least), and have refined it since then with new themes, the options of styles, and refined AI stuff to make it even more powerful. We also opened it up to allow non-registered members to use it to a certain degree (read - 2 times).
But it was always nagging us that the page didn't quite 'sell' itself when you first hit it. New users could have been confused or not really understood what it was about (and it lacked a heap of SEO that could help). So yesterday we fixed that and just gave it a bit of TLC when you first opened it up. Better heading structure, more explanatory text, and some subtle iconography to help users. We love the new look, and don't think its distracted from the usability at all. Go us
We noticed that on mobile, the menu was a little high (as we added Christmas to the top level items), so we've finessed that so it all fits in properly. We also fixed the mybar photo uploads which wasn't working due to a server migration a while ago and symlinks and other geeky things. Read - photo uploads work :)
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A whole host of tweaks
We have finally found some time to add a host of tweaks to the site that we've been wanting to do for ages. In no particular order, other than what I feel like putting first :)
- If you don't have any ingredients in your bar yet and are on a cocktail page, the plus buttons pulse very slightly. If you then add your first ingredients a little modal pops up saying congrats, and giving you a bit more info
- Added 'mocktail' to the filter words on results screen
- On the MyBar, we've added some 'start here' and 'refine here' text prompts to help new users understand how to use the MyBar feature. This wont show once you've got more than 5 ingredients.
- Cocktail ingredients now link to cocktails made with that ingredient, instead of the dedicated ingredient page. This is a much better user journey than before
- If you are on a results page, we've added some sensible defaults for results based on ingredient. For instance, if you search for rum cocktails, you'll see dark and light rum cocktails. If you search for coffee, you'll be shown coffee and coffee liqueur. This just makes sense for users, as most of the time they are searching for the flavour of 'coffee' rather than actually 'coffee'.
- A host of tweaks on the Christmas page since launching yesterday, with premium member upsells, better quick link box sizing at the top, fixed a heap of typos and a few other tiny UI and textual tweaks throughout the site for Christmas.
- Added the footer popup bar for the Christmas page
- Added some redirects for the 3 premium deep dive lists (fun, easy, favourite) so that if you come in to them from a list page it redirects you accordingly
Wow, sorry about that heading, but we are super excited to launch our dedicated Christmas Cocktail Hub. We've been working super hard on this over the past week and feel as though we've finessed and tweaked enough to launch it to the world. Cocktail timelines, 15-20 new Christmas themed cocktails, 3 new amazing lists, and not to mention a beautiful looking advent calendar. So stocked to show this to the world!
Whilst we've been squirreling away on a new secret project (named Project Santa) we've also fixed a host of small bugs scattered throughout from a host of updates we've been doing. Nothing worth noting but hopefully less Error 500's for you. Project Santa is launching in the next couple of days ....
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Creator tweaks and result fixes
We' just finished up putting the final touches to the cocktail creator, so it all completely works for non-logged in users, as well as upping the free creation amounts for users on both subscription plans. We also fixed a small bug on the some search results, so it doesn't break the page if no text was returned from the AI.
We've opened up our cocktail creator to be publicly accessible with some rate limits in. We're still tweaking some notices and other small bits, but for ow its all useable and looking fab.
Along with this we've opened up 2 new themes for everyone to use.
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