I didn't make it into the final 50, I guess an app that "makes your notes more useful" isn't uber sexy but I do believe it is something people want.<p>http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_thread/thread/41c9ebfcbffc77c7<p>One of the things that is really cool is that Google is letting you Opt-In if you want to get contacted by the judges to do consulting work.<p><i>Dear participant,<p>During the past few weeks, 100+ judges around the world reviewed over 1,700 applications. They were extremely impressed with the diversity and the large number of high quality entries submitted. It is clear that the number of great applications far exceeds the 50 top scoring applications that will move on to the final round of the Android Developer Challenge.<p>We regret to inform you that your entry was not among the top 50 submissions. However, we'd like to bring a couple of interesting opportunities to your attention:<p>1. Due to the high quality of the submissions many of the judges who are also members of the Open Handset Alliance have showed interest in contacting some of the participants regarding their applications to explore further opportunities.<p>2. In the near future, we'll be creating an Android Developer Challenge Gallery where you can showcase your application. We'll be providing more details shortly on how you can participate in this gallery.<p>If you're interested in either one of these opportunities, please fill out the following form: [url deleted]</i>
I did a Hecl port for it, and it didn't win. On the other hand, our daughter was born the other day, and she is simply wonderful:<p><a href="http://padovachronicles.welton.it/articles/2008/05/08/helen-carolina-welton" rel="nofollow">http://padovachronicles.welton.it/articles/2008/05/08/helen-...</a><p>It's kind of tough to think of much else at the moment:-)<p>Besides the Hecl entry, I also got some client work out of it, and although unfortunately that didn't win either, at least I made a bit of money, and there's a chance we'll keep working on the app, which is pretty cool.
I did one app to translate and say what I type in. I wanted to learned the SDK and use the competition as a learning experience. I wish I had won it. But I was really happy when I saw judges used it until last Wednesday.<p>Since I know I passed the phase 1 judgment. I am working on porting it to iPhone and see how people want it.<p>-- edit --
One lesson I learned from this is PG is right to found Y-combinator startup by number of founders. I did not start early so I did not team with other people in time. I guess a team definitely has better chance to succeed. And by mathematics, if a team can has better probability to win, even each one won much less, but the expectation value will be higher.
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.
We didn't win. I don't think judges did a thorough job - I was monitoring logs on my server and they never tried the advanced features in our app. Those required the backend usage, so I would know and the phone-server connection was the whole point why we made the application in the first place.<p>Anyway, we have this app on Windows Mobile too, so we will launch it soon-ish to start getting the user feedback.
We didn't win too. We submitted port of <a href="http://www.bloove.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloove.com</a> for Android. In allows you to manage your mobile phone via web. If you have Nokia or Sony Ericsson phone you can try it without Android :)
No we didnt win either. our project was to have a trip planner which would scour bus and train timetables and present it on Android. This was only for the sydney region by the way. Very primitive (duh).<p><a href="http://talkingwombat.com/" rel="nofollow">http://talkingwombat.com/</a>