Injoit.com iPhone developers’ blog

Hello everyone, 

Injoit has been working on a number of projects lately - lots of projects for our clients as usual but also we have worked on a number of our own developments including the Color Shake iPhone game, the Online High Scores Server and also Chipmunk level editor + Unity 3D game dev tool.

Right now in this moment the WWDC is starting but since we didn’t manage to get there this time we’ll make sure we work hard here and release our new products as soon as possible during the time when lots of people are occupied with talking there :).

By the way, we plan to make most of the products open source and therefore free so iPhone and game devs are welcome to use, test and participate in the development of our tools.

Also we plan to make public our Incubator internal site so that other developers can join us to develop our ideas or suggest their own projects and find people to collaborate with. 

Our mission remains the same - to create great and useful products and make the world a better place.

Stay tuned!

P.S. here is our Twitter account for you to follow: http://twitter.com/injoit

Injoit rolls out a proposal for writers and content owners - basically we propose to use our book reader app (customized for your content) to publish it as an application for iPhones.

Making it available on App Store will give you a key to a growing market with great opportunities for revenues.

Check our iPhone book turnkey page for details.

Here are some of the apps developed by us and already selling in the app store.

Also, some great apps are pending review and are to be seen soon!

iCombat - tanks game
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=309676121&mt=8

MyMakeup - make up application for kids
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=308690247&mt=8

Maxi Dice - dice game (Yatzee type)
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=302875350&mt=8

Thumb Wars - small touch game
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=305996685&mt=8

Jonas Wish - small fun app
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=305802591&mt=8

PopHead - small fun app
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=310731594&mt=8

Hey iCombat game is already selling in appstore we are excited about it as well as the client obviously. Can’t sleep these days as it’s very important how people will accept it, what the first reviews and ratings will be etc.

Check iCombat website

Or buy it in iTunes (less than 1$ currently and great updates to the game are about to come soon!)

We have updated our iPhone applications portfolio. More projects are currently in development or being reviewed by Apple testers, so check later for more exciting stuff developed by Injoit.

Good news for those who think about developing their iPhone application and have this work outsourced due to various reasons. A client of ours, based in US, has started an online blog telling in real time about the development of iCombat game which we are working on currently.

This is a really exclusive blog to read as there are not much resources of this kind and you are able to track the development of a great iPhone game from the very beginning!

Check “making iCombat” - the best advice on outsourcing your iPhone development.

This is one of my favorite quotes :)   :

I posted an add and received about 10 responses within the first several days.  Some were developers just spamming me, others had relevant experience but were divided into a range of ratings from 3.5 to 5 out of 5.  I initially contacted the higher rated ones who had positive feedback on past assignments but with one from the Balkans I found that his English proficiency was far below what would be necessary to communicate effectively.  He clearly was very talented but I got the feeling he was using Google translate to answer my e-mails.  Another team from Pakistan spoke great English and they spent quite a bit of time on chat with me getting to understand the project.  I liked them but their estimate came in at 4 man months - roughly 2-3x longer than anybody else!  The process was tedious between getting NDA’s signed and sending out the specs to receive a quote (see Taking Care of the Legal Stuff entry) but I ended up with a few good options that I felt would work.

I decided on a team of developers from the Ukraine whom I had found worked on an application roughly similar to what I wanted to make.  I contacted them and immediately knew they would be easy to work with.  From their English level to experience with similar projects to their extensive list of published apps I knew Injoit could execute on what they promised.  For more about the process of finalizing the specs and signing up with them see the related entry Contract Signed!.  So far working with them has been great, they are timely and easy to communicate with so we will see what happens.

iCombat is a promising project which might become a bestseller in App Store so find the latest news on its development on its website and blog mentioned above. Feel free to comment and post your suggestions.

One of our clients hasn’t been available for a chat this evening, being watching the inauguration ceremony of the new president of United States, Barak Obama. Other two cliens have even travelled to attend the event. I’ve also watched few minutes of it before going to my aikido class. This is important for us not only because we have many US-based clients - new president it is always a hope and as US plays a big role in all geopolitical processes in the world so let’s hope this event turns a page into a new better world starting with this new year 2009 where every one of us can show their good sides and realize their dreams. Congratulations USA, Barak Obama seems to be a good choice especially now when world economy requires some anti-crisis management!

Taras

Here are some pictures to show the holiday atmosphere these days in Injoit. Check them and share our festive mood with us + read our greetings in the end of the post.

This is our system administrator Valentin with his own special Christmas tree (you may see processor cooler and RAM hanging on it):

Each working place is decorated with a small Christmas tree with sweets and cookies on it - thanks to Karina! This really brings a cosy atmosphere of Christmas and New Year.

Corporate party, featuting karaoke and Verka Serduchka songs:

So you see we’ve been working hard throughout the year and now it’s time to party as New Year Eve is a very important, massive and special holiday in Ukraine.

We’ll continue working hard in 2009 to bring new great solutions and products to the market.

Here I wish to thank all our customers and partners for being with us during 2008 and let’s step out together into 2009 and make the world a better place with our common efforts!

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, all the best wishes to your business, your family and may you wishes come true in 2009!

Taras and Injoit.com team

In the middle of December Injoit has had a very special occasion - we’ve been visited by our important client from France, Mr Nicolas Gallé.

Mr Gallé is a president of Frantsia SAS and Injoit has developed a real estate B2C web portal, www.frantsia.ru for Frantsia. This has been a serious and interesting project which is still growing and developing and we continue our collaboration with Frantsia and Mr Nicolas Gallé.

It was fantastic to meet in person with a client who you’ve only heard over phone and you’ve spent many hours on Skype with discussing various project details. All the staff of Injot was delighted to meet Mr Gallé and is very greatful to him for visiting Kharkov as Mr Gallé has been initially on a business trip to Moscow and arranged a trip to Kharkov just to meet our team.

We value such relationships with our clients a lot and look forward to more friendly visits of this kind.

Injoit company keeps pace with the newest trends and has made a significant step in extending its range of services with an offer of custom iPhone applications development.

In few months the talented coders of Injoit team have mastered the iPhone SDK including relevant technologies of Xcode, Cocoa Touch, Object C at a high professional level. New project flow processes
including Project Management and Quality Assurance have been standardized in order to serve best the
flawless development of great iPhone applications.

Click “More” to check our photos and read more about the event.

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