Hacker News: kingsley_20

New comment by kingsley_20 in "We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours"

kingsley_20 — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:21:40 +0000

This sounds like a really cool idea. We gave the freebie to someone else, but if you want to pay to have this developed, we can certainly do that for you.

New comment by kingsley_20 in "We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours"

kingsley_20 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 03:04:42 +0000

Ok, you're on. Let's connect over email? Mine's kingsley@ideophone.in .

New comment by kingsley_20 in "We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours"

kingsley_20 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 03:00:30 +0000

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.

New comment by kingsley_20 in "We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours"

kingsley_20 — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:12:00 +0000

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.

New comment by kingsley_20 in "We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours"

kingsley_20 — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:20:16 +0000

Thanks for giving us a shot xur17. In 15 hrs, if yours is still the top post, we'll get it done :)

New comment by kingsley_20 in "We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours"

kingsley_20 — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:01:26 +0000

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.

New comment by kingsley_20 in "We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours"

kingsley_20 — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:55:19 +0000

Yes, we deliver code & assets once the product is completed. You have exactly the right idea - we help get the product off the ground, and create quick MVPs.

New comment by kingsley_20 in "We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours"

kingsley_20 — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:51:06 +0000

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.

New comment by kingsley_20 in "We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours"

kingsley_20 — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:48:26 +0000

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.

New comment by kingsley_20 in "We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours"

kingsley_20 — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:45:01 +0000

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.

We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours

kingsley_20 — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:44:41 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ideophone.in/develop-your-idea-into-an-android-app-in-24-hours/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6920601

Points: 23

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Startup TripThirsty wants to be the Pinterest for Travel. Monetized Groupon way.

kingsley_20 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:27:45 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nextbigwhat.com/tripthirsty-pinterest-and-deals-for-travel-297/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5152813

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kingsley_20 in "Sikuli: Write scripts using GUI buttons and screenshots"

kingsley_20 — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:10:08 +0000

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.

New comment by kingsley_20 in "Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites"

kingsley_20 — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 04:15:52 +0000

Public folders don't work consistently in countries that Dropbox has deemed a piracy risk. Doesn't work in India, for example.

New comment by kingsley_20 in "Show HN: Auto-share your Android's battery status with anyone"

kingsley_20 — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:49:41 +0000

I'm just scared that doing more complex stuff will turn our current, simple, app into a bit of a battery hog itself :) But I think Android does a decent amount of that for you.

New comment by kingsley_20 in "Show HN: Auto-share your Android's battery status with anyone"

kingsley_20 — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:18:09 +0000

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 droidjuice@ideophone.in

Show HN: Auto-share your Android's battery status with anyone

kingsley_20 — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:12:33 +0000

Example: http://droidjuice.me/kingsley

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4723535

Points: 9

# Comments: 6

New comment by kingsley_20 in "The lactose-tolerance mutation"

kingsley_20 — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 06:02:19 +0000

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".

New comment by kingsley_20 in "Indian Railways, live on Google Maps"

kingsley_20 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:12:39 +0000

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.

New comment by kingsley_20 in "Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket"

kingsley_20 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:49:42 +0000

The dashboard no longer shows repos I actively contribute to. Thats bad mkay.