Blue Bamboo: iPhone and Web Development

Our Achievements

David — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:21:44 +0000

Thanks for taking interest! We think you should know exactly who you do business with, so we’d like to summarize some of our achievements for you:

- Our apps have been downloaded over 60,000 times
- Our apps are used about 20,000 times a day
- We’ve had 4 apps in Israel’s 10 most downloaded apps lists (both paid and free)
- Israel Radio is the #1 paid app in Israel for over 4 months – it’s also the app that has generated the largest income.
- yad2 became the #2 most downloaded app within 48 hours of it’s release

We’ll keep adding items to this list as we achieve more. Feel free to check back in to take a look at our progress – or just go ahead and contact us.

About Business Relationships

David — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:51:18 +0000

Blue Bamboo has been quite the adventure over the last year – we’ve grown from a one man operation to 7 employees and gaining. In this time we’ve learned a lot about creating great application and great business relationships. I’ve wanted to try and summarize my experience into a few key points for a while, so here goes nothing:

1. Stay well within your comfort zones. You have your comfort zones – how much you want to make, what kind of work you want to do, how fast you can deliver. If you stay within them you’ll be satisfied and work well. If you leave your comfort zone and there are problems down the road you wont have any room to maneuver, which often results in bad feelings from both sides.

2. Be Authentic. Know exactly what your capabilities are and what you have yet to learn, own up to mistakes when you make them. Authenticity builds confidence and trust.

3. Float and deal with problems immediately. There will always be problems, and when they don’t get dealt with they become bigger problems.

Hello World!

David — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:50:40 +0000

Had to be here.

yad2 for iPhone

David — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:38:44 +0000

Update (13.1.10): version 2.0 is in development and will include location based search and other great new features.

Update (26.12.09): yad2 is the #2 most downloaded app in Israel 48 hours after release.
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yad2 is Israel’s third largest internet business. It serves close to half a million classified ads and has millions of visitors a month. Finding stuff on yad2 involves entering quite a bit of information, which is usually awful on mobile phones. Our challenge then was to implement a comfortable, intuitive search interface which gets result fast.

Here’s a concept sketch of the search screen we eventually came up with. Tap the parameter name you want to edit (like ‘Area’), and flick the scrollwheel to the desired value. The parameter cell visually reinforces the selected value (’Tel Aviv’ in this case). Simple!

And here’s how it was then implemented

Israel Radio

David — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:36:53 +0000

Update (02.1.10): Israel Radio was updated with new stations and a fresh look

Update (30.12.09): Israel Radio has completed 4 months as the top paid application in Israel
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Israel Radio is the most successful commercial application in Israel. After 4 months at the top of the charts, the app has an install base of tens of thousands of users. Israel Radio is a great example of work we love – turning an idea into a successful product. Our client’s wish was simple: let Israelis listen to the radio on their iPhones. The rest was up to us.

Timebridge for iPhone

David — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:35:05 +0000

Update (23.12.09): Timebridge app was names ‘mobile app of the week’ by allbusiness.com
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Meetings are a headache. Scheduling, finding your way, setting an agenda, capturing and following up on action items – they could be so much easier. With half a million users and growing fast, Timebridge decided to strategically focus on the iPhone. Here was the platform they’ve been waiting for – a handheld computer in every meeting.