My Agile Experiment - a Flashlight on the iPhone - Up to 74th in utilities now

[nym]

It sounds more like a rave toy than a flashlight. I hope the user-driven spec model illuminates something interesting.

[proee]

Good idea. Maybe have a way to synchronize all iphones in a crowd for changing color and frequency.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

Wonder if he can read input from the microphone and use that to pulse the light in time to music, or display a VU meter onscreen, or...

[andrewljohnson]

Haha, that's an interesting thought. I wonder if I will find some niche raver market on the iPhone from all of this.

[mcav]

> I just want to see if ... I can improve sales by doing whatever users say to do.

Thar be dragons down that path... Users don't know what they want:

http://www.extremeplanner.com/blog/2005/04/users-dont-know-w...

[andrewljohnson]

I edited the title of this post to reflect that the app is now up to 74th place in utilities. With just a little twittering, a blog post, and a post to HN, A Flashlight! is off to the races.

Hopefully, I will hear from users soon. If not, I guess I'll have to make it a rave toy as suggested by the people on this forum.

EDIT: Maybe it's not up that high. The rankings in the App Store all seem to have shifted all of a sudden, and the top 20 apps all look wrong.

[zacharydanger]

Yes, because Agile clearly means "don't design anything" and "have no direction".

[jpeterson]

In most development shops I've worked with who claim to go by an "agile" methodology, this is precisely what it meant.

[andrewljohnson]

My apologies - I know I kind of man-handled the term here, but I think it conveyed the gist of the article.

[CrazedGeek]

I don't know about anyone else, but I would definitely pay for a Flashlight RPG. (kind of like a reverse Boktai...)

[ortelius]

Best flashlight in the store .... I guess, never tried the others.

[jbscpa]

so the link take me to Gaia GPS not A Flashlight

??

[andrewljohnson]

Oops, fixed.