Tag Archives: tippon

Jan 10 2012
news

Tippon won!

I received some happy news just before the new year that my submission to the 2011 Nokia Windows phone developer challenge Tippon have won.

The winner are calculated by download count over the 40 days period. I am super happy about the result, given this is the first public programming competition I have entered.

As a result, I’ve decided to release the source code for Tippon under Apache License 2.0. The source comes with no warranty, but I hope it can be used as a starting point for someone else’s project. I will continue to improve Tippon if I have any new ideas for features.

Download here.

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Nov 23 2011
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Tippon 1.2 released

Tippon, the best tip calculator ever, is now updated to version 1.2.

Along with minor visual enhancements, it is also available in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese and español.

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Nov 13 2011
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Tippon.com has been taken!

I feel like I’m someone important, I feel like I’ve finally made it big.

Shortly after the release of my awesome tip calculator Tippon. I’ve did a bing search 1 week later to see if tippon search word can link me to the app download page.

Although it did find my app download in the search results returned. It also found tippon.com. Curiosity compelled me to click to have a look.

Someone cyber-squatted the domain! They want $5700 to sell it. I know I should probably feel a bit angry about this, or at least a bit foolish for not securing it sooner. But all I feel is flattered, somebody actually noticed my app, and think that it could potentially make enough money to justify the $5700 buy back!

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Oct 30 2011
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Tippon is published

Finally version 1.0 of Tippon is published for the Windows Phone 7 platform.

This first version includes the basic functionality of tip calculation, bill splitting, and allows user to keep track of all their past bills by capturing it with the phone’s camera.

For future version I’ve planned to add social media integration with twitter, Facebook etc. This is my first app on the Windows phone, please support by downloading and leave feedback on your thoughts.

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