Hello everyone. Long time lurker, here. I just finished up writing my first iPhone app. Since my wife and kids enjoy pin trading so much, it seemed like a neat first app to try writing. The basic idea behind it is it's a listing of pin traders, broken down into areas (Disneyland, California Adventure, Downtown Disney). If you tap on a trader, it loads up a photo of the cast member pin board. From inside the app, you can take a photo of a pin board, which is then uploaded to the pin trader, replacing the existing photo. This new pin board is now loaded anytime someone else using the app taps on that pin trader. This allows anyone using the app to see the current (when enough people are using it) pins on a pin board, by using typical gestures for pinch to zoom, and swipe panning.
In addition to people actually in the park, it would allow people not in the park to see the pin boards. If they have a friend in the park that day, they might find a pin they've been looking for and could have their friend go trade for it.
Another function in the app is a map. If you're in the park, it uses the iPhone's GPS ability and shows your position as well as map pins for the surrounding pin traders. Tap on the pin and it'll show you the pin trader name. So if you're not super familiar with the location of a pin trader, this will help you locate it.
Obviously for all of this to work, it'll require pin traders to go around and snap photos of pin boards. It works kind of like those Disney ride wait time programs needing people to submit wait times.
The app is a free download, but does have in-app ads. There are no in-app purchases. I'd really like feedback on the app from the pin trading community, and would love new ideas to add.
The name of the app is Pinja. If I do this right, here's a link:
Pinja