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Remind HN: November is Launch an App Month
78 points by il on Nov 1, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 73 comments
As discussed previously on HN(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398) a bunch of us are going to commit to actually launching an MVP by the end of November.

We're gathering in the Facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_141079939271952

What are you going to be launching in November?




I am launching http://getbizen.com

Bizen provides better intelligence for franchises. A web-based application that is integrated with the store point of sale to provide comparative analytics, trend analysis, key performance indicators, goal setting, and notifications.

I received seed funding from Jumpstart Foundry in September and am hoping to have my first paying customer in November.

These are a set of tools I have been using for my own franchise stores and am now converting into a product that I can take to market.

I haven't written much about it yet and haven't posted it to the Facebook group. I have been so damn busy creating the product and getting my investor pitch ready for a "demo day" on November 3rd.


Hey all: we just launched an app to help you all launch awesomeness for the November Startup Sprint. We've lined up awesome daily content about building and launching sweet stuff, as well as a great way to track and share your progress. Check it out here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1857508


Why fb dude? I wanna keep fb private. Twitter list? Google Group? Something else?


I didn't make the group, I just saw it in the previous thread and noticed that it already had traction and quite a few members, I think it's better to discuss in one central place rather than fragmenting into a bunch of separate lists.

If you don't want to join the group, just post here.

Also for those of you wanting to keep it private, consider this: Studies show that publicly committing to a goal significantly increases one's chances of accomplishing it successfully.


He wants to keep his Facebook private, not necessarily the project.

Which I understand entirely. I'd really rather not be linked to everyone under the sun on Facebook. There's already enough people I'm connected to who are unwittingly sharing my deets with hundreds of unscrupulous app developers.


--Studies show that publicly committing to a goal significantly increases one's chances of accomplishing it successfully.

Thats not quite true according to this ted talk.. (but I'm sure studies have found the other way round as well)

http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_you...


You can join kickuptheass.com and join our "build and app" group with daily updates. It's not FB, and it's well adapted to letting everybody know your progress.


Built an MVP over the weekend, thought it might be of use to the group - http://ratemymvp.com

So many great MVP's get posted on HN but disappear within a day or two - I wanted to offer an additional place for people to post their projects for review and discussion by the startup community. Please let me know what you think - and if you've got an MVP, send me what you have and I'll put it up.


Heya! My MVP is called "www.wantmyjob.com". I'd love an entry on RateMyMVP :-)

What info should I send you? I don't see an easy "add a project" link...


A call tracking and intelligence app. It is still being polished, but I think another full force week and we will be up there. Live, but still got some polishing to do.

http://contexium.com

Edit: The long description: You know how a business receives 100 phone calls per day but noone can tell listen to every call for feedback? We not only track each call, but we mine each call and score them so you get a snapshot of what customers are saying.


I will be launching http://lotaar.com

Lotaar is a TV/Radio guide that rminds you when your favourite programs are about to go live.


A set of highly reusable iOS UI libraries. UIKit is nice, but a bit limited. In the process of building iPhone/iPad apps, I've created a bunch of controls that I think other iOS developers might find useful. Hoping to get the first 3 launched this week, with another 7 or so to follow.


I'm going to launch a side project of mine that I've been working on since May.

It's a somewhat ambitious Mac OS X application, and with no-one to keep me in check, the design has become -- sprawling, to say the least...

To improve the odds of ever launching it, I've decided on a single use case that determines my "MVP". As soon as the app can be used to build that demo, I'm going to launch it as a free alpha.

Last week, I actually shipped a minimalist iPad application (it's a port of a Mac app that I wrote way back in 2002):

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/turtledoveland/id399324585?mt...

Luckily it was approved on the App Store on the last days of October, so I can't use its release as an excuse to cop out of "Launch An App November" ;)


Cool!

I happen to be working on a project to scratch my own itch. It's an iPhone application. I've been teaching myself flamenco guitar, which requires a specialized metronome (for counting the various rhythms).

I'm using titanium appcelerator to build the application, and it's about 50% done now (just UI work now, the functionality is there).

It's essentially a clone of beatvibe http://tivstudio.com/node/1

I am confident I will have this app submitted to the app store by end of november.

Here's the current code if anyone is interested, still very much a work in progress http://github.com/himmel/Flamenco-Metronome

I only started working on this in my off time about a week ago.


This month I'm launching Fanfare http://getfanfare.com into beta.

Fanfare is a social media marketing platform that lets online content creators (bands, writers, video producers, etc.) promote their content and engage with their audience.

The secret sauce is that we provide an easy way for online publishers to distribute their content to users only after they take a social action. Publishers can log into our site and gain insight in who’s accessing their content, sort their fans by Klout score, export their info, and reengage.

Version 1 is live, let me know if you'd like to see a demo. We're currently working on Version 1.5. Thanks.


Just launched http://www.tradesalerts.com/ ... it is a stocks alerts service for short term investors looking to profit from cyclical patterns in stocks.

Do take a look and give me some feedback.


Mostly looks good, but I'd use a different font, or actual handwriting on top of the graph. And the arrow is ugly.

Maybe have a free option to get some traction.


Thanks.. I am working on a few graphs of the various trends and various email/portfolio screenshots to help users better illustrate the service. I'm still pondering how best to setp the Free option.


Aww hell.

I'm committing to launching DuctDo.com, a companion webapp to DuctMail. DuctDo: Do stuff! (Where as DuctMail was "Remember Stuff").

DuctDo will be about forming habits, and about setting goals for yourself. For example, let's say you procrastinate a lot, and you want to have some form of public reminder system in place, you tell DuctDo what you want to do. DuctDo then sends you an email every morning telling you to do it, and then at the end of the day, it asks you for an update. Will link into things like Twitter and Facebook and update people with your progress... or lack of progress.

DuctDo will be the second part of the Ductivity suite of web apps.


I'm going to be launching my new ActionScript 3 API and JavaScript/HTML5 API, and as an unexpected bonus the antique ActionScript 2 - one of my users back-ported it for me.

Aside from that ... keep working on new features, had a cool idea today to build some reports and let portals tap into some of the collective data I have so they can identify sites they should be getting their games on and whatever trends emerge for the various categories of games... with luck (or more data) it might even identify what kind of games they should be building/licensing.


I am planning on getting BeerLedge.com up and running. It is going to be a mix between Foursquare for beer drinkers and RateBeer. For some reason I have been infatuated with beer and finally have set a goal to tie in this infatuation with a website. We shall see where I go with it though since I am currently trying to complete nanowrimo[1] as well.

Not sure why November is such a great month of challenges like this (aren't we all growing mustaches too?) Good luck to everyone!

[1] http://nanowrimo.org


Should we have a demo day or launch day?


I'm going to launch http://weddingtype.com

We have a MVP up which is just a wufoo form, but I want to commit to getting the real application finished!


I stumbled on your project (randomly) awhile ago, did you end up getting into the winter session?


I'll know whether we have an interview with YC tomorrow. :) Interviews are held in a couple weeks.


That's awesome, good luck!


Any chance of getting an invite? Recently engaged and would love to check out your service:)


The homepage look nice!


Thank you! Design is fun. :D


We? Do you have a dev?


Yes. If you took a look at the homepage, you'll see two names credited. :P


I would like to state for the record that I wrote that shortly before passing out for 11 hours.

That is all.


I won't be joining the FB group (privacy) but I will be committing to launching something by the end of the month. (I have a couple of ideas and will decide which by Wed.)


Clickable Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_141079939271952


I'm going to launch http://achievabl.es/ which is basically going to be a SMART goal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria) setting community.

I find that often I am too ambitious in making my goals and if I can have a bunch of other people look at them and give me feedback it would be very beneficial to me, and hopefully others too.


A couple Philly guys are doing the same thing as phillycowrimo - just to finish a usable code project in a month, no matter the state. Some are going to be webapps, some iPhone. Should be a fun experiment, and if it's successful we'll repeat it with a bit more organization (and cities?) next year.

http://phillycowrimo.wordpress.com


We are launching our private beta for http://eyeclash.com/ this month.

Eyeclash is a video-chat based social network where users can play games, watch videos, and run applications alongside video chat. It is 100% browser-based. The product is still really raw and buggy right now but we're pushing it no matter what.

More news to follow.


We'll launch http://printify.de, a startup around social media printing.


I am working on a full release of http://CharityAuctionOrganizer.com

A little removed from the tech-centric mainstream, but it provides a web based tool for managing fund raising auctions.

The site is live and functional now, with a full feature release expected by the end of the month.


We will be making a full-on push for our personal finance app Can I Afford it Now? http://www.caniafforditnow.com

If you missed giving us feedback, please do so at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843748

Thanks


I'm working on an iPhone app called 'Escape the Submarine'. It's a room escape game similar to the ones on http://www.jayisgames.com.

I'm using the Lua bindings provided by iPhone Wax to do the level design, and it's going quite well.


Just launched something different (well, not aimed at the HN crowd). Actually one of my better performing sites. It's an iPhone Gossip Browser which builds off our automated news feed aggregation platform.

http://gossipbucket.com/app


I was feeling under the weather yesterday and didn't feel like doing work, so I launched http://www.messageunicorn.com

the idea is to put a message out to people you lost touch with who you can't find any other way.


Hoping to privately launch http://ironclan.com


Just launched: http://adventurecow.com

Make stories just like Choose Your Own Adventures!

HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1857156


Tea for iPhone, a tool for optimizing the taste of your loose leaf teas, statistically.

http://www.twitter.com/teaapp

http://www.facebook.com/teaapp


For some reason I totally misread your description and got it into my head it was an app where you took a photo of the tea-leaves in the bottom of your cup and it "statistically" gave you a "reading" from them. Maybe that's a possible extra feature? :)


I'm going to launch http://www.gmbhnews.net , I still have some text improvements to do , but this shouldn't take more than 2 days, almost all the beta coding work is one.


I am committed to launching http://wellhubstudios.com, a ecommerce platform for wellness professionals, yoga studios. Appointment Booking and Class Scheduling....


I launched http://tekbob.com :)


I just launched videolla.com. Now have a goal to add feature/day, polish it, get some traction and make early users fall in love with it. :)

Videolla is basically video publishing and monetization platform. Best in this galaxy.


I'm committed to launching Crate and getting our first customer in November: http://letscrate.com/. (let me know if you're interested, email in profile!)


Hackety Hack 1.0, for reals.


I will be launching http://churchofturing.com - a resource for autodidactic learners from all paths that lead toward the nerdery.


I just launched http://socialpicly.com 3 minutes ago. Add your support for tomorrows elections to your facebook profile picture.


If I can get the Facebook platform to play nicely with me I'll be launching a universal wishlist with a twist, hopefully just in time for the Christmas present buying rush...


http://exceptionalasp.net/

Early version is already live, this month is about filling out features and content and starting to sell it.


I am launching Local Strange [localstrange.com]. It's a real-time replacement for the craigslist erotic section.

I got video chat working.

Ill have phone / txting done this week.

Next week im implementing a credits system.


OK. I'll through my hat into the ring.

secureattach.com

I've got the MVP mostly done its time to ship. I've locked down one test user site, so I'm looking for more. Let me know if your interested.


http://quickbrownfrog.appspot.com

Quick Brown Frog: a 100% in-browser, non-Flash, non-Java typing tutor.


Is the idea behind this to launch an app in a month or to create and launch an app in just a month? The latter sounds much more intriguing.


I'll be working on a beta release of ScheduleHQ, an employee scheduling app:

http://schedulehq.com/


I have a ludicrously busy month, but every sunday I'm going to be working on my as yet unnamed movies to see before you die project.


Had That Beer http://www.hadthatbeer.com

Plan on launching it into a private beta this month.


Ok, here's mine, and since it's November now (already, screams)

http://www.ZoomRead.com


Nice! I'm launching http://wikizu.com hopefully within the next week or two.


I'll launch http://socialgrapple.com/

Track anyone's Twitter social graph over time.


Planning to launch private alpha of http://www.createens.com


I launched http://rejose.com

Some kind of technology trend tool and job aggregator.


With any luck, http://soontyphoon.com is coming soon.


I have a busy month, but this has inspired me to build the Android app I keep thinking about...


omg my mailbox is, once again, full of facebook joining requests ! :)


Sort of like NANOWRIMO? Nice idea. I may try!




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