kingsley_20
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Comment · 13 years ago
This sounds like a really cool idea. We gave the freebie to someone else, but if you want to pay to have this developed, we can certainly do that for you.
Comment · 13 years ago
Ok, you're on. Let's connect over email? Mine's [email protected] .
Comment · 13 years ago
We can share the ones that we have developed ourselves: (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Ideophone&hl...)
1. One Touch SOS & variants (we have some country specific variants with local police/security integrations).
2. Suruk: a user-configurable tuktuk/taxi meter, to double check that you're not being cheated. Some versions with adequate usage also give crowdsourced estimates of average distance between points.
3. Kopa is a whitelabel Ride sharing app targeted at events
4. DroidJuice plots and graphs your battery usage online (without draining your battery itself), and lets you send automatic "low battery" messages to a predefined receiver list or FB.
Comment · 13 years ago
I'll be honest about the things we probably can't do. Games, for one. Enterprise apps that need access to private APIs are another. I could probably go on, but you get the drift. We're on the same page as landing page creators and other lean startup tools.
Comment · 13 years ago
Thanks for giving us a shot xur17. In 15 hrs, if yours is still the top post, we'll get it done :)
Comment · 13 years ago
We're based in Bangalore. I'm a product manager with 6 yrs' experience in the valley building salesforce.com's first social products & Digital Chocolate's first social games. My co-founders have worked at Yahoo, InMobi & TAT. We're offering short timeframes and low prices because we can afford to (being in India), and have no patience for negotiating rates.
Comment · 13 years ago
Yes, we deliver code & assets once the product is completed. You have exactly the right idea - we help get the product off the ground, and create quick MVPs.
Comment · 13 years ago
We don't want to narrow down scope to very discrete things. We're a tight-knit team, and we've built many things in a 24hr timeframe. We regularly win practically every hackathon in Bangalore. So odds are, we'll often find a way to do things.
That said, we're probably not the best suited for projects were prior context is important, such as integrating with an existing private API.
Comment · 13 years ago
Co-founder here. We got really, really good at building pretty decent apps in a hackathon timeframe. That's what we're offering - nothing more or less.
I'm going to offer a freebie for HN users - the top reply to this comment which is a project we can take on and build, we'll do for free.
Comment · 13 years ago
I guess we're looking for well-scoped projects that are within what we are able to execute. We're a team of 4, and we can get quite a lot done, including UX and backend instead of just an app. What you get is 4 specialists who will focus on your project for a short amount of time, and what they think they're capable of executing.
Comment · 14 years ago
Like already mentioned, not new. I used to this to QA-test and bot Farmville-style flash games when I was working on that (~3-4 yrs ago).
It's particularly good for situations where you know what you're expecting to see, but you don't know when or where it will appear.
Comment · 14 years ago
Public folders don't work consistently in countries that Dropbox has deemed a piracy risk. Doesn't work in India, for example.
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm just scared that doing more complex stuff will turn our current, simple, app into a bit of a battery hog itself :) But I think Android does a decent amount of that for you.