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kingsley_20 | 12 years ago | on: We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours

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.

kingsley_20 | 12 years ago | on: We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours

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.

kingsley_20 | 12 years ago | on: We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours

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.

kingsley_20 | 12 years ago | on: We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours

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.

kingsley_20 | 12 years ago | on: We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours

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.

kingsley_20 | 12 years ago | on: We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours

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.

kingsley_20 | 13 years ago | on: Sikuli: Write scripts using GUI buttons and screenshots

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.

kingsley_20 | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Auto-share your Android's battery status with anyone

OP and co-founder here. Anenth and Sandeep hacked this up at Droidcon Bangalore Hacknight last weekend, and we polished it a bit since then. We have lots of tweaks/improvements planned for it, including: * Auto-posting (via server) to FB/Twitter when you battery drops to 20% * Show call-receiver's battery % when you call them * Crowdsourced battery life data

Would love feedback & ideas here or [email protected]

kingsley_20 | 13 years ago | on: The lactose-tolerance mutation

This is an American usage of the word "asian", which excludes subcontinentals.

Interestingly, my wife and I grew up on milk in India (to adulthood), but found ourselves mildly lactose-intolerant to American milk.

Edit: changed "includes" to "excludes".

kingsley_20 | 13 years ago | on: Indian Railways, live on Google Maps

Indian railways employs a number of methods. The most primitive fallback is the one where the station master updates the system whenever a train passes the station, whether or not it stops there.

kingsley_20 | 13 years ago | on: Hackerface: Rapportive for HN

When I attempted to "facebook like" this page, the preview displays "Find MSN Hotmail Hacker, Cash Advance and more at Hackerface.com. Get the best of Debt Consolidation or Insu...". OP might want to fix that.
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