The startup that didn’t quite get up
15 04 2008So, earlier this year, my friend Jason had a brilliant idea. There was tons of hype in the development community around Google’s android platform. Being the genius mastermind that Jason is, he began working on an idea to combine the aspects social networking, location-based services, and his love for mobile development. Not long after some brainstorming sessions, I found myself opening up Eclipse and working with him to develop and consume our REST service.
There were long days and there were tons of hours thrown into this project. Not only were we staring at a rough deadline with only two developers (that have full-time jobs), I moved to Austin in the middle of it! It’s also worth noting that when it comes to location-based services, EVERYBODY wants in. We saw competing projects popping up every single day. Despite the competition, we rest assured that our core idea was solid and more suitable for the general public than the services being developed. We kept moving forward.
We didn’t quite finish everything that we hoped to accomplish in time but we still made a LOT of progress and turned it in time. I don’t know what kind of competition we’re up against but I guarantee you, we’ll give them a run for their money ;).
Responses:
Is there some way I can see all of this?
It’s 8 a.m. and I slept in two hours past my alarm.
I’m going to iron some clothes, take a quick shower, venture into the world lookin’ suave and go to the café. Going to sketch and read magazines!
China china china…
-Lee
We’ll just have to wait and see what Google thinks
I feel pretty comfortable with Android now, even to the point of putting it on my resume. It cant hurt, especially if I want to go into the mobile industry! How many other people can say they participated in the first Android competition and turned in an awesome application!? I’ll see what I can do about getting a bunch of screenshots and stuff about Sideclicker.
wow. that’s freekin killer. i’m sure you guys saw the techcrunch article re the iPhone http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/09/i-saw-the-future-of-social-networking-the-other-day/
y’all should really continue working on this. quit your jobs
We’ll gladly quit our jobs… if you want to provide some VC funding! We have plenty of other ideas to startup as well!
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