realschnabler

iOS/UIKit interface development: Everything is a UICollectionView. (UITableView back in the days)

Not necessarily on topic - but given your code samples are written in Objective-C, how much of your codebase is still in Objective-C and what's your opinion on porting it over to Swift?

This is one of the rare instances, where a monetization strategy actually improves the UX of a vanity product. Users have been asking for this (passively) for years. If you check out popular fashion posts, you can find a lot of comments along the lines of "where can i buy this?", "i need this.", etc. Instagram was always great at creating attention and desire for products, but the platform never allowed users to take action directly.

Trying to solve this problem myself back in 2013 with a somewhat popular iPhone app, the key will be to rollout this feature to smaller merchants, or maybe even to "fashion inspiration" accounts who provide a massive followership, as well as massive engagement on their posts - but I don't really see that happening.