We built Namerick because we had a hard time remembering everyone we met at meetups and hackathons. It's an iphone app to help you remember the names of people you've just met. We used repetition and mnemonics modeled from memory 'athletes' and studies of the human memory.<p>Namerick was built by a team of six during a BeMyApp weekend app competition. While we had everything pretty much working at the end of the weekend, we'd remiss if we didn't add that we've added a few months of beta testing, additional UX polish, and marketing efforts:)<p>We'd LOVE your feedback (and be eternally grateful if you'd be willing to leave an app store review). The app is free for the next few days, and then we'll likely switch it to $0.99 after that.<p>You can learn more about it, and see our awesome retro demo video (complete with zero gravity cats) at <a href="http://namerick.com" rel="nofollow">http://namerick.com</a>.
I love it. Is there an Android version in the works?<p>My biggest problem with names would likely not be solved with this, although it might help me become more disciplined. My problem is that I'm always so wrapped up with sizing someone up and watching that person's expression and body language that the name is lost to me in the initial exchange. Very frustrating habit and very hard to break.
This looks amazing -- I've been needing something like this for a while. The one piece of advice I'd give is to create some kind of backup and or export feature. It's a little scary to think about putting so much valuable information about my relationships into something that I can't get it back out of.<p>Do you have any plans for this?
Great idea, I've had something like this in my head for awhile too.<p>My initial thoughts would be:
-custom groups or more groups; what group is this person attached to.
-change the "where" I met this person, for back entering people. Everyone I'm entering the first time, right now, is off.
-some ability to record meeting that person again? You probably don't want to turn this into a CRM, but having a history of when and where you met someone would be helpful.
Are the namericks normally that offensive? Is that a specific memory cue? I would be interested to know if that is or not. For example I made one for my friend Brooke and clicked generate namerick. The first two items that came up were brooke bangs boys and brooke the Blower.