09.12.23wed
Here I Am!
Craig was lamenting one day that his wife will invariably text him while he’s on the road, asking where he is. By the time he texts back (which is illegal in the State of California), he’s no longer in that location! The common response anymore is, “There should be an app for that.” And now there is! We released Here I Am this week.
Craig and I actually released two versions of the app. The first, Here I Am - SMS/Email, gets your location via the iPhone’s GPS and sends a text or email of your location to whomever you designate in the settings. This solved the issue Craig was having with his wife.
But as I was doing the initial testing of the app, I was standing in line for Space Mountain at Disneyland, and I wanted to be able to brag about this to a couple of my friends who really like the ride. I fired off a text to Craig and suggested we do a second version of Here I Am, and so Here I Am - Twitter was born. This version also gets your location via the phone’s GPS, but instead tweets your current location – a satellite image of your location – to your twitter feed! Great for bragging about being on the ski hill instead of stuck at work!
Both apps are on sale right now for only a buck each in the iTunes app store.
When I was doing the design for the app, I thought it would be cool to have a map overlay, and I decided to use some place real... an actual location somewhere in the world, as opposed to just making up streets and roads. Apple uses their headquarters for the map icon on the iPhone, but the area for Threemagination’s headquarters looks pretty boring. I moved on to trying important places in my life, like birth place... where I live, etc. But all of those places were boring to look at too! So instead I went for a location that just looked neat.
The Contest
Yesterday, Craig and I were discussing the location I chose... a location he still hasn’t found. I said, “It would be fun to see how many people could figure out were in the world this map is.” Craig seems to think if you let anyone and everyone try, you’d get someone to figure it out in under 10 minutes. So we decided to have a contest... and a little side bet between us.
On the Threemagination web site, you can try to guess where in the world this map is. All the details and rules are there. If you are the first to get it right, you get a $50 iTunes gift card. Even if you’re not first, you could win one of five $10 iTunes gift cards.
If someone gets it before the 10 minute mark, I have to buy Craig lunch. So I’m hoping no one is that clever!
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