I have been developing a new version of my iPhone application, Subnet Calc for a few weeks now. I decided to call the new version Subnet Calc Pro as it’s essentially an advanced version of the free one.
In order to sell applications on the App Store for money you have to complete the banking and tax information. The banking information is straight forward but the tax information is a little bit more tricky due to the strange nature of having to fill in lots of bits relating to US tax identifiers (ITIN and EIN) and so I had no idea what to do, so I emailed Apple and got an extremely useful reply which basically stated:
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I’ve had a really good time since I started developing iPhone applications and my first app is now up to version 1.2 which has seen a major change and a couple of minor tweaks and bug fixes compared to version 1.0. When I released it I had no idea about the size of the market for a relatively niche application, but my downloads soared in the first month and are tailing off slightly now but I am well over 5000 downloads now. This of course if only a minor dent in the actual amount of iPhones out there, so maybe it’s no wonder.
I am starting work on a new app now which is based upon my first app and I hope that publicity such as that which I received from Softpedia should help with download numbers. I am probably going to charge for this next app and so I guess I need all the help I can in order to make it a viable situation for me. Anyway, I havn’t decided much yet as it’s still early stages.
Well, we at Senokian, did it! Operation Canine was launched and we managed to create a web app in 3 days!
Spend Meter was launched at 17:29 today, which was 1 minute before the deadline! It really does show that you can design and implement a solution to a pretty basic problem in a pretty short time frame. My favourite part is that we used Asterisk and PHP together, along with bespoke scripts to get the data to synchronise between the two systems to enable the software to work!
GO TEAM CANINE!
At work, we’ve been working on Operation Canine for the past 2 days with today being the final day. We’re trying to set up a company and build a product within the 3 day time span, using just a handful of people. I am working on the phone system for it, which has been coming along nicely and I am very confident that we will reach the goal and have something released today.
The idea of this task is to show that you can get the ground work done for a new company is a very short time frame and that you don’t need to have an absolutely 100% completed project at first – you can start small and work from there. The aim of Operation Canine is that the product will be developed over time if it starts to become popular (i.e. make money!).
Today is launch day, so check out the website and look back at 17:30 GMT for (hopefully) a release!
Tonight (yes, just tonight) I have coded and released my 2nd iPhone app. I decided to do an experiment and see if I could do it all in one night, and I did!
Check out my iPhone app blog for more information.
I’ve released a new version of my iPhone app, which is now available for download on the App Store. It took a lot less time this time to get it released because I didn’t have to go through any contract signing stages, I just had to upload the binary and await review.
So, get downloading if you have an iPhone! [Also, reviews pllllease!]
After 6 days of being available, my iPhone application Subnet Calc has had around 1500 downloads, but ZERO reviews! I’d very much appreciate it if some people could review the app, please?
Also, in more interesting news, I submitted version 1.1 on Monday which hopefully Apple will accept very shortly and then that shall be available for download. New features include the ability to name subnets and save them to a table for easy access.
Well, Apple have finally let my iPhone application through the process of application and I now have my contract set up, so future releases should be a lot quicker. If you’d like to try it out, then you can download it through the App Store by searching for ‘Subnet Calc’. So, anyone with an iPhone / iPod Touch, please download it and review it!
Thanks Apple!
Well, Subnet Calc is still in Apple’s pipeline under the status of ‘Pending Contract’. This means that Apple havn’t accepted my free applications contract yet – over 2 weeks since I submitted it. I’m not the only developer to run into this kind of problem and I really hope it gets resolved soon. The contracts department at Apple say it’s the finance department which need to sort out this phase, so I guess I’m just going to have to wait and see really.
So, come on Apple, please accept me!
I’ve finally submitted my application to the App Store today 
. It’s called Subnet Calc and there’s only one application on the App Store which does a similar sort of thing. So I’m hoping that it gets accepted!
You can follow the progress of it at http://iphone.galloway.me.uk/iphone-apps/subnet-calc/ – I’ll be moving over to a dedicated section of my site at some point, but for now, it’s hosted on this blog.
So when my app is out – please download it and try it out!
Here’s the latest screenshot:
