Andrew D. Smith

We’re excited to announce the launch of The Playground App from Bears With Apps, a family-run startup! My wife took over our indie app business, and this is her first major release—developed with the help of an amazing team. This app is designed to make it easier for families to discover local playgrounds. While other apps are out there, we’ve built a solid platform that will continue to grow,...

Kris, how is it going with this product? Any major updates or new things learned?

It would be nice if I could submit my entire app profile and it gave me a landing page + separate pages for each app...

So the new version renamed "redoodle" with some cool transition images and buy fixes is now out.

One thing I didn't realize was people are "adding" to an image rather than responding. Which doesn't really work in the current configuration...I think I will need to make a slight modification and that will work fine as an option. -- next version I guess.

I've been spending some time "policing" to prevent the Chat Roulette 'negative aspect' that seems to be popping up with new users. I'm looking forward to community flagging in the next product. The version in the store right now has notifications broken in iOS 8 -- the new version is waiting on Apple to approve, and will have that fixed. I'm a little concerned that without notifications of...

Hello--as the developer of the app, I want to thank you for all the input/feedback. I woke up this morning to a few users...and a few inappropriate drawings (the next version lets you flag those) -- the app is being renamed to "Redoodle" and the version currently awaiting Apple approval has fixed notifications, ability to flag drawings as inappropriate, and share on fb/twitter -- I'd love more...