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:

http://padovachronicles.welton.it/articles/2008/05/08/helen-...

It's kind of tough to think of much else at the moment:-)

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.

Congrats! You're in for a lot of fun, and a lot of sleep deprivation.

I noticed a comment beneath the photo that said your days of late night hacking are gone. This is true for the first 6 months, but things do improve on that front.

Congrats! You really did win, and good luck on your future projects.

mate a baby daughter (or son) beats winning the android challenge any day!!

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.

Since I know I passed the phase 1 judgment. I am working on porting it to iPhone and see how people want it.

-- 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.

Likewise, I used it as a deadline to get the RESTful API done. When I AJAXified my app a few weeks later it was dead simple since I had a solid API to write to.

The money would have been nice since I'm bootstrapped, but it would have allowed me to put off launching even longer. So maybe it was a blessing in disguise?

agree with you. me and my co-founder both have mortgages and families (actually he has kids, I dont), so this was like a trial to see how we would work with a heavy deadline and was a great learning experience. Atleast we got a chance to fail fast (on Android anyway). But wierdly enough, we noticied google transit went public - so atleast it vindicates the usefulness of our idea... we will now try to work on a real platform now - iphone or (shudder) nokia...

--- edit : by the way google transit wasnt there when we had started out, keeping eye on the labs page, we only noticed about a month before the deadline!

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.

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 http://www.bloove.com 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 :)

When you wrote your app for Nokia and SE did you write for MIDP?

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).

http://talkingwombat.com/

Didn't win and I wasn't expecting to either. It would have been a neat app, but I only submitted an early version with pretty limited functionality.