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Metrix – The Future Defined

By: , 10/20/2010 4:54 pm | 19 comments

Over the past few months Syntactix and webOSroundup have worked hard to bring the webOS developer community a suite of tools to help them be successful. While the current set has been a bit rough around the edges, we have busily working with many developers in the community to identify what information, tools, and services a developer needs to be successful.  Today we are proud to announce the Metrix Scope of Development.  Over the next few weeks we will post in-depth information about each sections. We look forward to and welcome your ideas and suggestions as we bring both SDK and PDK compatible solutions. So without further ado:

  • App Analytics
    • Updated in Real-time
      • Know what your app is doing now, not 3 days later
    • Customizable Metrics
      • Create your own metrics to really understand your apps user base
      • Create custom reports for your data to display data how it makes sense to you
      • Export your data for easy backup
    • HTML5 Online Reports
      • View your reports from anywhere
  • Developer Tools
    • Auto Updater
      • Ensures customers always have the latest version of your app by automatically monitoring the catalog for new versions and prompting the user to upgrade.
    • Bulletin Notifications
      • Send full HTML communications to your users
      • Filter notifications to target specific user groups (app version, os version, location, etc)
    • Hot Patching
      • Patch your app without having to wait for formal review.
      • Minimize the damage of defects that squeak by and fix them on the fly
    • Remote Debugging
      • Work with users to solve those tough bugs live in the field
    • Dynamic Help System
      • Provides a universal help system to ensure your users get help when they need it most
  • Advertising
    • Support for Multiple Ad Networks
      • Manage the mixture and backfill for each of your apps
    • One Simple Interface to Implement
      • Support the top ad networks in the industry with one simple interface
  • Marketing
    • App Referral Program
      • Turn your users into a virtual sales force
  • Transaction Services
    • Provides Developers with an Easy Method to Support in App Purchases
    • Virtual Currency is Valid Across Apps
    • Transactions and User Accounts Handled by Metrix
  • Battle-Field Social Game Network
    • High Scores and Achievement Leader Boards
      • Top # of users
      • Time periods
      • Location
      • Social Networks and Circles
    • Social Network Integration
      • Allow users to post scores to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook
    • Create Social Circles
      • Users can follow and challenge other users
      • Provides common user profiles across games
      • Unlock content based on user participation

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About Greg Hrebek

Greg Hrebek is a developer and consultant in cutting edge technologies. His company Syntactix LLC currently offers two award-winning webOS applications. Pack 'n' Track a shipment-tracking application and YouView a visual voicemail client. They also are the developers of Metrix a webOS app analytics package and developer tools suite that provides realtime statistics about your app and much more. He is also co-host of the WebOS Radio's DevCast - the podcast that puts the Mojo in your webOS apps.
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  • http://twitter.com/zhephree Zhephree

    Super excited!

  • http://twitter.com/IngloriousApps Inglorious Apps

    Sweet!

  • http://gregstoll.dyndns.org/WebOS/ Greg

    Whoa! This looks amazing!

  • Mannyman

    Awesome!

  • haubey

    awesome! Super excited

  • http://twitter.com/zhephree Zhephree

    In-app purchases, Gaming stuff, and remote debugging (and dynamic help system) are the things I’m most excited about.

    • http://twitter.com/arthurthornton Arthur Thornton

      I’m right there with ya!

  • http://www.colonelkernel.com Colonel Kernel

    Wow. Ambitious. Good luck pulling it all off.

    The hot patching is a neat trick for little errors that slip through, but I also see a potential for abuse, sneaking in features that Palm wouldn’t have approved. Still, I haven’t heard the details and you guys may have already accounted for that.

    I look forward to the articles.

  • http://twitter.com/PalmFlashCards James Harris

    Not mentioned, but part of the help is a formmail system. Will allow users to report bugs and communicate with you regardless of whether they have email on their device or not.

  • Suruat

    THis Is awesome!! I just signed up for metrix yesterday…. i need to learn how to implement it asap!!

  • Suruat

    THis Is awesome!! I just signed up for metrix yesterday…. i need to learn how to implement it asap!!

  • http://twitter.com/Dev_Suruat Taurus Omejia

    THis Is awesome!! I just signed up for metrix yesterday…. i need to learn how to implement it asap!!

  • http://jmaxkanter.com Max Kanter

    Wow! if metrix can follow through with these lofty goals this will certainly be impressive.

    It wasn’t mentioned in the article, is this all coming for free?

  • http://twitter.com/Syntactix Syntactix LLC

    We will delve into it more in the in-depth articles, but at the high level the goal is to offer everything free with Marketing, Advertising, and Transaction Services having a small revenue share.

  • http://twitter.com/tsaunders tsaunders

    Can’t wait to try some of these features, this also reminds me that I need to update my app.

  • http://twitter.com/goatslacker Josh Perez

    Quick question: Can other developers collaborate on Metrix? Do you guys have a public repo I can fork on github?

    I’m interested in the gaming, marketing and patching capabilities.

    • http://twitter.com/Syntactix Syntactix LLC

      We will open some aspects of the platform up here in the future. Right now we are working with some key developers to establish a good base to build from. If you are interested in helping out shoot me an email and we talk about how you can help out.

      • http://twitter.com/goatslacker Josh Perez

        Got it. Will do.

        You know what else would be nice. A webOS app to track your Metrix. Not sure if that exists already or not or if it’s already in the pipeline. Either way I’ll shoot you an email.

  • http://www.hpalmnews.com HPalm News

    This is an impressive suite. For a day job I do business intelligence, marketing analysis, and work for a company that makes money selling mobile advertising. To pull all of these things into one suite is pretty impressive. I’m beginning to develop for webOS and this will be the first product I include. Nice work, I look forward to learning more.