The iPhone application which I have been collaborating on over the past 2 months has finally gone live onto the iTunes App Store. It’s called Statuso and this is exciting times!

You can grab it from here if your interested.

I have collaborated with Jeff from England on this - he did most of the hard work in actually developing the app, whilst I did design/logic and website stuff mostly. We submitted the app to Apple about 2 weeks ago and after a nervous wait it was made live today.

Of course, I have been spamming it to as many blog and iPhone related websites as possible. And also asking everyone I know with an iPhone to check it out!

I don’t think this app is going to make us rich - but it has been a great learning experience and also brings a huge sense of accomplishment to actually have something out there in the world which we created from scratch ourselves. We do not have any sales data just yet, but if theres anything interesting I will be sure to share it with y’all

What’s next? Well maybe there will be another app (a game to be more precise) but for now we want to improve Statuso by adding more support for websites (and maybe a few features here and there).

Leeane

Tags: apple, iphone, statuso

I have been keeping busy with a few things lately. The iPhone application is finished and is currently awaiting approval on the Apple App Store (see www.statuso.com). It has been a great learning experience, especially collaborating with a great iPhone application developer from England.

Threadler is progressing, albeit very slowly. Work on it is very sporadic unfortunately, but I am liking how much I am learning with it. I have finished the installer process and am now working on the admin interface (roles and database structure etc). No doubt I will go back and improve things as I keep picking up lots of tips from the CodeIgniter forums.

I also have a bit of a weekend project which I will be starting .. this weekend. It should be pretty simple but it will likely take me more than just a weekend due to other commitments. But,  I will give you a clue as to what it is - “snoci”.
Stay tuned, should have something to showcase soonish.

Tags: iphone, statuso, threadler, web

I have finally got my new macbook. And it is absolutely lovely. I also signed up the iPhone developer program - but I am kidding myself if I think I will be able to start making apps any time soon. I just do not have the time to spend getting up to scratch on Objective C and Cocoa.

But here’s an idea for an application which I reckon people would pay money for. At least 99c anyway. I know I would.

Before I go into detail, here’s the deal. If anyone wants to go ahead and make this idea, you are more than welcome. Credit to me for the idea would be appreciated, and if you are a morally good person maybe you could even split some of the profits with me for the idea. I also have the perfect name for the app (Statuso) and domain name which I would be willing to give ownership over to whoever develops it.

The Idea

The idea is for an application called “Statuso”. Essentially, it is an application which allows users to update their social networking “status” messages from the one application and at the same time. E.g. Facebook, Twiiter, Friendfeed, Identi.ca etc.

It would be a very simple app with only 2 or 3 screens, all interacting with the relevant website API’s. Here is a mock up (click for larger view):

Features I would like to see:

• Main page:
  • Enter text to post
  • Toggle on/off which accounts to post to (accounts which have been added in the settings page)
  • For certain accounts (e.g. facebook) have the ability to set the text to prepend with the message (e.g. Bob is blah blah)
• Setting/Preferences:
  • Add social networking accounts

Things to consider:

• Validation of the number of characters before posting. Must also take into account any “prepend” text as well and then display error message if the number of characters is over any of the limits set for any of the accounts the message was to be posted to.

After the initial release, you could look into:

• Displaying @reply from twitter or comments left to a facebook message (for example)
• Allowing multiple accounts for one social network website (e.g. multiple twitter accounts)
• Prettying up the interface by adding the website favicons/logos for example

So there you go. Do you think it’s a good idea? Wold you use it? Would you buy it for 99c?

I haven’t seen anything like this on the AppStore so far. There was one app which apparently did something similar to what I am wanting, but it also did about 100 other things which made it incredibly complicated according to the reviews I read.

If noone goes ahead and makes it, maybe I will eventually do it myself.

Leeane

Tags: apple, application, iphone