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I used the challenge deadline as a motivator to get me to learn the Android SDK quickly. Downloaded the SDK on the last day and had to submit by midnight. I bui
by waleedka 18y ago
I used the challenge deadline as a motivator to get me to learn the Android SDK quickly. Downloaded the SDK on the last day and had to submit by midnight. I built a simple twitter clone but instead of seeing what your friends write, you see what people within 10 miles around you write. Needless to say, I didn't win.
- aschobel 18y agoLikewise, I used it as a deadline to get the RESTful API done. When I AJAXified my app a few weeks later it was dead simple since I had a solid API to write to. The money would have been nice since I'm bootstrapped, but it would have allowed me to put off launching even longer. So maybe it was a blessing in disguise?
- flashgordon 18y agoagree with you. me and my co-founder both have mortgages and families (actually he has kids, I dont), so this was like a trial to see how we would work with a heavy deadline and was a great learning experience. Atleast we got a chance to fail fast (on Android anyway). But wierdly enough, we noticied google transit went public - so atleast it vindicates the usefulness of our idea... we will now try to work on a real platform now - iphone or (shudder) nokia... --- edit : by the way google transit wasnt there when we had started out, keeping eye on the labs page, we only noticed about a month before the deadline!