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It’s my pleasure to announce the launch of Aeeiee’s latest iOS app called Catch the Ghost™.
We all find it hard to put down our phones, and there’s a reason for that. Big companies spend billions of dollars to make their apps as addictive as possible. This results in a lot of wasted time and focus on things that aren’t really important.
Catch the Ghost turns this on its head by rewarding you for not using your phone. We turn not using your phone into a game, and we make that game addictive. Over time, this trains your brain to be more focused and less distracted.
We invented a technology we call Digital Hourglass™. It counts the time you spend off your phone but doesn’t show you the minutes ticking by, so it feels less stressful. If you manage to not use your phone until the hourglass runs out, you get rewards that make you feel good and our app helps track your productivity over time.
What are ghosts? The ghosts are the biggest reward in our game. Ghosts in our app are famous historical figures, each with multiple “apparitions.” An apparition captures a key moment in their life, complete with authentic quotes and relevant artwork. As you collect all the apparitions through focus sessions, you gradually uncover the ghost’s full story. We keep their identities a mystery until the end, adding an element of surprise and anticipation as you learn.
Catch the Ghost wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work, excellence, and dedication of my team of engineers and designers from around the world, our board of directors (Joseph Huang, Dabi Adeyemi, and Matthew Magruder), and the support of friends and family, many of whom helped us beta test this app.
Catch the Ghost™ is available now on iOS for $0.99.
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Catch the Ghost 1.2.2 is Live!
One of our most requested features has just been completed: Custom Timer Length! Custom Timers in Detail Catch the Ghost is an app built entirely upon peer-reviewed behavioral psychology and brain science. Our goal is to help you create a better you and accomplish your goals, by making it easy for you to condition your…
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Composers Collection on Catch the Ghost
If you’re a fan of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist, Neoclassical, and Modern eras of European music…. If you love symphonies, chamber music, string quartets, operas, concertos, sonatas, masses, and etudes… then we have a real treat for you in our Composers collection! Here are just a few of the composers in our collection (left to…
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Catch the Ghost 1.2 is Live!
Catch the Ghost 1.2 is live on the App Store, and now it’s free to download! New features include: We have a lot in store for the month of July. Our team is working on the History page and Streaks, so get ready for a big version update because 1.3 is on the way!
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Asian History and Indian History incoming…
Over the weekend, I published about 10 ghosts that are exclusively famous to Asian history, the Indian subcontinent, and Japan. It was a wild ride! We now have 206 ghosts published! About 800 more to go before I’ll feel like we’ve made a significant contribution to the Productivity and Education categories of the App Store.…
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Famous Scientists on Catch the Ghost™
When I tell people about our app, we often get asked about who we have. In fact, one negative review from Japan complained that we had too many activists and politicians and no scientists. Well, they were wrong, we had two published scientists, LOL! But clearly that’s not enough. It’s difficult for a small team…
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Happy Juneteenth 2024 from Aeeiee!
Happy Juneteenth from our team at Aeeiee, and from the abolitionists, activists, and trailblazers who ultimately made this holiday possible! Here are just a few of these heroes that we memorialize in Catch the Ghost (from left to right): Coretta Scott King, Martin Delany, Maya Angelou, George Washington Carver, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass (our…
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16 New Ghosts, 135 Published, 747 in Queue
🔎Our team at Aeeiee has spent thousands of hours curating the data of historical figures (our “ghosts”) into our custom built Cloud for use on the Catch the Ghost™ app. We don’t add everyone to our library, but when we do, our mission is to memorialize them in an inspirational and educational light. This wouldn’t…
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Catch the Ghost 1.1.2 is Out!
We’ve got a new version of Catch the Ghost out with a few important new features: One of the core features of Catch the Ghost is the Digital Hourglass™, or generally known as a focus timer. When it’s running you simply need to wait out the clock in order to use your phone normally again.…
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Big Bug Fix: Catch the Ghost Version 1.1.1 is Out!
Last Monday we released Catch the Ghost™ version 1.1 and we were really excited about its new features. It turns out that in our excitement we missed a crucial test where we needed to make sure that upgrading from the previous version didn’t crash the app. Lo and behold, my wife upgrades her app from…
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Catch the Ghost Version 1.1 Update
Catch the Ghost version 1.1 update is out now with a tuned up Universe, a new UI for apparitions, scroll for more, focus timer screen tips, and “Normal Mode.” So that’s it! Version 1.1 is available for download now on the App Store.
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Catch the Ghost™ Launch
It’s my pleasure to announce the launch of Aeeiee’s latest iOS app called Catch the Ghost™. We all find it hard to put down our phones, and there’s a reason for that. Big companies spend billions of dollars to make their apps as addictive as possible. This results in a lot of wasted time and…
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Redesigning Dress Measurement Version 1.4
Recently at Aeeiee, we released the latest version of our product- Dress Measurement App, version 1.4, on the App Store. This new version has new UI designs and important features that the users asked for. In this article, I am going to talk about these new features and the process that went into the redesign.…
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How to Use AWS S3 to host your static websites
Cloud technologies are fast becoming the mainstay of what we use to develop custom solutions for consumers. Amazon Web Services(AWS) has become the dominant player and go cloud service for developers. I particularly like the variety of services, tools, and metrics at my disposal when using AWS in comparison to other cloud options. In this…
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Deploying your Nodejs App to AWS Elastic Beanstalk from GitHub using CodePipeline
In this article, I’m going to do a walkthrough of how to deploy our Nodejs app to Elastic Beanstalk, but first I’m going to give a brief overview of the service. Overview of Elastic Beanstalk AWS Elastic beanstalk is a managed service which means AWS automatically handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, application health monitoring,…
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Aeeiee awards $1500 scholarship to intern, Jasmine Amoako-Agyei to launch new startup
Introducing Jasmine Jasmine Amoako-Agyei is a social entrepreneur and is launching her new startup, Countdown. She just completed her 3rd year at Arizona State University, pursuing a degree in Marketing with double minors in Sustainability and Technological Entrepreneurship & Management. She’s a very active and engaged individual, participating and leading in a UN Millennium Fellowship, Luminosity…
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An Introduction to Docker
What is Docker? “Docker is a set of platform as a service (PaaS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers.” – Wikipedia. To begin, let’s examine each of the highlighted terms above to help us better understand the need for Docker. Platform as a service (PaaS) – PaaS are essentially…
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Build a Slackbot for your dev team with Slack’s Bolt APIs
Slack is a messaging platform used by numerous developer teams around the world for their day-to-day instant messaging interactions. Slack is a very powerful productivity tool that makes our lives easier here at Aeeiee. Bots in slack allow us to run code to automate tasks. They can also: In this blog post, we’ll explore how…
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Using Bull as a Priority Job Handler in Node Js
Let’s build a Node.js API that uses Bull to handle priority Jobs Why Bull? There are a wide variety of priority job queues for Node js. “A Queue is a linear structure which follows a particular order in which the operations are performed. The order is First In First Out (FIFO). A good example of…
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How to Use Custom code snippets in WordPress
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to within WordPress as Themes. There are times when we might want to add custom code to our theme’s functions.php file or in one of…
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How to use WordPress as a Headless CMS with React
React, the frontend framework created at Facebook in 2013, with over 165k GitHub stars is now one of the most loved Frontend frameworks used by JavaScript developers. React is a powerful framework that allows developers to create re-usable code blocks called components, use the Virtual DOM to update DOM elements – making web apps more…
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How to programmatically insert a new table into a Database in WordPress
Recently, at AEEIEE, we needed to programmatically insert a new table into the WordPress database for a plugin we were developing. The table had to hold certain data about users. We wanted this table to be tied directly to our plugin and not be affected by changes around the site. For our use case, we…
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How to Create Custom Taxonomies in WordPress
A WordPress taxonomy is a way to organize groups of posts and custom post types. This gives you the flexibility to group posts, pages, etc. for your site needs. Fortunately, WordPress comes with some inbuilt custom taxonomies that make it possible to organize contents and posts but unfortunately, those inbuilt taxonomies might not meet your specific need. This…
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How to Upload Files to S3 with the AWS JavaScript SDK and WordPress
Why AWS? AWS has a ton of amazing services to help in the software development process. From services that help you cache static assets like CloudFront, to services that scale based on the traffic to your application like ElasticBeanstalk (this comes with a load balancer by default). At Aeeiee, we’re huge fans of AWS. Our…
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Getting Started with Local by Flywheel
Developers always need a local environment to write, run, and test their code before deployment. At Aeeiee, one of the technologies we use is WordPress, but we need to be able to develop WordPress locally before pushing it to production, hence our use of Local by Flywheel. Local by Flywheel is easy to use and very…
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Everyday Life at Aeeiee
January 2021 Update: This article was originally written in 2020. It’s now 2021 and thankfully, many more companies are learning to cope better with COVID. Let’s hope that this year brings in an effective Vaccine and things go back to some sort of normalcy. 2020 has been a year! There has been enough significant events…
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#EndSARS: Seize the Moment
As a Nigerian citizen living abroad, as a Pan-Africanist, and as the leader of a company with remote workers based in Nigeria, I wish to lend my support and my voice to the #EndSARS cause. #EndSARS is a powerful movement of passionate young Nigerians putting their lives on the line to demonstrate in civil disobedience…
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Aeeiee is hiring again!
Aeeiee is hiring again! One of our goals for 2020 is to get back on the iOS App Development train. We’ve seen a tremendous amount of success with Dress Measurement, with over 26,000 downloads from 126 different countries. Over 12,000 of those downloads were in this year alone. We’ve also maintained a 4.6/5 rating in…
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Dress Measurement Version 1.3.1
We’re happy to announce that Dress Measurement Version 1.3.1 is live on the app store. This new version includes the following new features and fixes:
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Dress Measurement Version 1.3
Dress Measurement version 1.3 is now on the App Store. Download it today and try out our new features! iCloud for Everyone All users can now backup their data to the cloud, and sync with multiple devices Tailor Shop Subscription Tailor Shop is a premium subscription tier with access to exclusive features like Profile Photos,…
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We’ve Been Listening
Dress Measurement version 1.3 is about to hit the App Store. We currently have over 9000 downloads, and a 4.5/5 rating on the App Store, but we know that our app needs plenty of improvements. Before we launch, I wanted to take time to let our users know that despite our silence and despite our shifting…
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It’s Over 9000
We’ve been quiet over at Aeeiee, but we haven’t been resting on our laurels. We’ve got a ton of updates coming for Dress Measurement, but before that, a little milestone. As of today, Dress Measurement has reached over 9000 downloads, and our app is used in 108 different countries. Our top five countries are: Notice…
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Dress Measurement is back on track!
Back in June 2017, Aeeiee began the process of expansion and moved to a new office on 4th & Mill in Tempe, Arizona. Then came the month long process of hiring talent to fill our development needs. By August 7th, 2017 we had hired our team and began the training our devs on our various…
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Aeeiee is hiring!
Things are moving fast here at Aeeiee. We’ve just closed on a new office in the heart of downtown Tempe, walking distance from Arizona State University. We’re hoping the downtown location and proximity to one of the best engineering colleges in the country will attract top notch software talent to work at our growing Arizona startup. We’re…
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What’s going on with Dress Measurement?
It’s been a year since we’ve launched our first iOS app, Dress Measurement. What’s happened since then? First, we’ve reached over 4000 downloads, with no advertising (well, no advertising after the first week). This is also with no SEO, which is to my chagrin, because we’re a company that specializes in Search Engine Optimization. This…
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Scalable Cloud Architecture
Aeeiee is proud to announce our first real-world implementation of our auto-scaling cloud hosting environment for our client, Iridium Communications Inc. Iridium is replacing its satellite constellation by sending 75 Iridium NEXT satellites into space on SpaceX’s Falon 9 rocket platform.On January 14, 2017, Space X successfully launched Iridium’s first 10 satellites into space. IridiumNext.com, a…
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Mashable is right, web design is dead
A little over a year ago, Mashable wrote an article entitled Web Design is Dead. A website like Mashable has incentive to write controversial content with a standout title, and you can tell it worked by how many disgruntled web designers have been commenting on their article that has been shared 28.5K times and liked over 128K times…
