I’m sitting here at a now-empty table at the iPhoneDevCamp, pretty tired. I’ve been here for just over 8 hours now, a latecomer to the game, and a lot has happened since I arrived!

When I first walked in at 1pm or so I perused the tables of people working on various iPhone web apps. I found a group of guys working on the next “killer app”, so I pulled up a chair and offered myself to the group. It’s pretty amazing, really, how quick it all happened. The guy who was taking the lead for the group explained what the app was, how it was going to work, etc… to me, and I was right on board. We had him doing backend development, a graphics guy, a logistics guy, me doing frontend stuff, and – get this – not one but two venture capitalists sitting with us going over the business model with checkbooks in hand. We worked for a few hours, throwing ideas and functionality back and forth at each other, going over every aspect of the app and how cool it was going to be. It was quite exciting!

But … there is a reason I’m writing in past tense. Right when we were getting into the meat of it, a group of four guys walked up and demoed the exact app we were working on that they started building 2 weeks ago. We were all a bit dumbfounded – not angry – when the VCs gave the other guys their cards and walked away. We had a company in the making and it was disbanded before it even came together.

We spent the rest of the afternoon hacking on the iPhone and discussing the next steps for ourselves. I wound up working with a guy from Yelp getting their mobile site blinged out for the iPhone. All in all, a busy day!

Saturday, July 7th, 2007 at 9:06 pm

2 Responses to “easy come easy go at iPhoneDevCamp”

1. Neil Kumar Says:
   July 7th, 2007 at 11:23 pm

   Thanks for hacking with me to get Yelp Mobile all blinged up. Maybe I’ll see you tomorrow for the presentations.

2. B Says:
   July 8th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

   So what was the app…?

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