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Filttr – A New Hope

Swap — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:49:49 +0000

Note: This post is cloned from blog.filttr.com
It has been a year since Filttr’s last beta but that doesn’t mean we haven’t done anything since then. There has also been heavy performance improvements. However, our company has been looking forward to move from Filttr over to other things. It was an experiment by Aditya & me which transformed into a full time project as we got popular – not to forget the first big coverage by TechCrunch followed by CNN & New York Times. However, we hit some roadblocks and then the negative attitude of Twitter towards the developers led us to lose interest in trying to monetize the service. The final nail in the coffin was flurry of decisions by Twitter last month. We will not get into the details as everyone here at RH loves Twitter & the way they’ve managed the service so far.

Coming to my point, our company has decided to move on to other projects & I, have decided to take over Filttr’s development & server expenses. We have never charged our users and I do not plan to do so either and yes, ads suck! There are no major bugs (tracker.filttr.com) but I will try to add more features (filttr.uservoice.com) during my free time. I’m already in the process of developing FilttrFon – a mobile app for iPhone & Android.

I would be grateful if people can even donate something as little as $5; it will help me pay for some part of the expenses and most importantly, encourage me to continue developing Filttr!

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Swaroop

P.S. You didn’t think I would actually forget mentioning Star Wars day, would ya? Hint: Check title.

iPhone

Swap — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:07:53 +0000

I am now a proud owner of an iPhone. All thanks to Mike, who kind enough to send gift his 3G – I gave up hopes of an iPhone 3GS launch in India. The phone arrived a month ago but I had to wait for 30 days for the sim card tray to arrive from Hong Kong. The screen replacement never arrived and it looks like I’ll have to order again

I couldn’t hop around like an excited kid on finding every coll feature of the phone since I already owned an iPod Touch and have been working on iPhone apps. I was forced to “unlock” the potential which did help bringing out much of the hidden potential. Some day, when I am competent in Objective-c, I might try a hand at a few hacks myself.

Once the screen replacement arrives, I’ll be posting pics. I don’t need to review this gadget, do I?

Anniversary4

Swap — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:19:54 +0000

When my blog was put on hiatus way back in February, I never realized it would take 8 months to bring back. Much has changed since then (I say that every year, I know). Picking October 2nd wasn’t a plan. It struck me few days ago how cool it would be celebrate on the day I hate the most – no, this has nothing to do with Gandhiji!

Instead of regretting what happened 4 years ago, I decided to treat this day like a birthday (maybe, better). I wore new clothes, had a filling breakfast, headed to work with a strong mindset, called many of my friends and re-structured (delete all posts, change theme) the blog to bring it back up.

Ever since I moved to Twitter, I’ve always had a need to say something more than 140 chars. Less workload should now allow me to do that. I’ve decided to keep the bits & bytes to Posterousспални – which I will soon be integrating here. And oh, this theme is temporary. More later..