David
We built an Android player for VizzVox. Plays back user built stories
from the web based on location. We don't have a website for the
Android player yet.
David
0, none, nada :(
I'm getting anxious here since my application does not yet support
Proxy.
I hope that the judges doesn't sitting behind firewalls.
http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_thread/thread/1b56a2c80dfc752
It looked like I had two people on, but Dan from google told me there
had been only one actual review, and the others were "spot checks".
I was a little surprised that the reviews would be so short, but it
wasn't an actual review, so no big deal. As stated in that thread,
I'm OK to lose, but only if somebody's looking at it.
"I get the feeling the challenge as a platform to get us independent
developers off the ground isn't going terribly well... given 1800
submission I figure everything just drowns in noise... I start
wondering if the Alliance is going to set up an effective marketing
channel for us."
I don't think the challenge is really for "us". The challenge is to
get some sweet apps for the platform, and generate press for the open
nature of the platform. In that regard, I think its going to go very
well. When the winners are announced, you'll get all sorts of free
press (which is why I thought doing this might be worth it). I don't
know about the marketing channel, but I wouldn't worry about it much
just yet. Considering there are 1800 entries, I'm a lot more
concerned about getting in the first 50.
As far as marketing when the phones come out, it is going to be a
little strange. A lot of the submissions I've seen are going to have
serious chicken/egg problems. The platform will not be huge numbers
of phones out of the gate, so anything that requires lots of existing
users (social networking), or require large coverage and participation
of service providers, is going to require web based or other access
outside of android. You know what I mean? I think we're all going to
be the first people we know with an android phone.
Explaining to people why this is cool is very difficult. Hence the
contest. I have a feeling when we see the set of apps that come out,
explaining why android is cool will be a lot easier.
I was also thinking, we might have a little surprise at the end. Lets
say for the sake of argument there are more than 50 really good ideas,
or at least more than the 20 or so that would make it past phase II.
It wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for them to just toss them out.
I saw some activity on the server tonight. Looks like its from the
west coast. Not a lot of stuff, though, so maybe more spot checks or
whatever.
It'll be an interesting week.
I've been keeping an eye on mine. Its a little confusing because I
submitted 2 apps. One is the big one, and one is an api that I used
for building stuff. The api has had a few hits, but the big one has
had only one real "review". I don't know about all the top 100
business. I think there's some fact and a lot of speculation.
But, maybe that was stated somewhere? Not sure.
Regardless, good luck to all.
Uh, +1 here. Remember the deadline was March 3rd, then suddenly 4/14?
Somehow extending the soft deadline of 5/5 seems like nothing
compared to that.
However. I've read in a number of places there were to be 4 reviews,
and I absolutely didn't get 4 reviews yet. I have 2 submissions. The
main one has had, at best, 2 reviews. Its possible 2 judges hated the
idea so much they didn't bother, but I'd be shocked if they didn't at
least kick the tires a bit. There might have been an error on the
client end, but I haven't seen anything on the server.
Summary? It may be over, but don't shut off your server just yet ;)
I assume they wouldn't drop the ball like that, but there have been
rumblings about this all day, and there has been no response. Over
the weekend there was similar concern, and we were getting "official"
word pretty much right away. No news isn't always good news.
I'd suggest for round 2 they make it a little more transparent.
I had a couple hits from a different IP today, but it turned out to be
somebody scanning for a hack.