February 2011
10 posts
Open Letter to My Customers: Why Pillboxie Lacks...
My medication reminder app, Pillboxie, has been out for a little over a week. It’s been successful beyond what I had ever expected. It’s currently the #1 paid medical app in the US and ten other countries, and in the top ten in thirty-seven countries. It’s even been featured on Apple’s “New & Noteworthy” list. Over the past week, I’ve been getting a...
Shareable Ink: New (and Totally Rad) Electronic... →
HIStalk interviews Steve Hau, president of Shareable Ink, a company that makes an electronic pen and paper technology that uses built-in handwriting recognition to create simultaneous electronic copies of paper records. Fantastic idea, and it sounds like they are especially sensitive to the dangers of overlaying new software on old analog workflows:
The anesthesia market is a great example....
How to Balance Time and Money as an Indie... →
Great post from Geek and Dad on the challenges of being a self-employed developer with a family:
[As] an Indie, you ARE the boss, so if you can’t keep yourself focused and motivated and tell yourself what to do, you might not have the right personality to run your own business.
I’ll have to keep this one around in my Instapaper account. It may be need to be revisited in a few years,...
Mano a Mano: New Science Exhibits Pits Visitors'... →
Via Jay Parkinson, MD:
Thanks to a new art/science exhibition called “Blood Wars,” you can find out whose dad has the toughest immune system once and for all. The brainchild of artist Kathy High, “Blood Wars” pits white blood cells from two different people against each other. From the article: “In order to create the blood duel, High gets a phlebotomist to take blood samples from two...
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Voalté Scores Heartland Regional Hospital →
How many headlines like this does it take before old-guard healthcare IT guys realize that the iPhone is not a toy?
Balancing Originality and Usability: Why I Made...
This weekend I finished Pillboxie, my first iPhone app. I’ve been looking forward to writing about the circumstances of its inspiration since the night I first got the idea.
Last September, Bob Tedeschi wrote an article for the New York Times about iPhone apps that remind users when to take medicine. He had missed a number of his morning medications and wondered if there was “an app...
How to Finish Your First iPhone App
I officially submitted Pillboxie to the App Store review team today. Pillboxie is a medication reminder app for iPhone and iPod Touch. Most of the other apps that perform similar functions are either overcomplicated or just plain boring, so I tried my best to make an app that is both fun and easy to use. I’m excited about what I’ve produced, and can’t wait to see what my...