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May 1st, 2010 by flingsoft
After our initial work on some functional apps, we decided to have a little fun. Part of it was due to my young (2 years at the time) son and his obsession with the iPhone and little silly apps. So the next two apps were more about making something silly with some great design behind it. They were also based on the fortune cookie concept which is something simple for people to understand and something very “shareable”.
Fortune Monkey Lives!
Who doesn’t love a good monkey? We really set out to build something like Zoltar made famous by the movie Big, but with a little twist. To give it a little spin, he became a monkey and a gypsy and so much more… You can share your fortunes with friends or just play with it yourself, there are hundreds and hundreds of fortunes to choose from
And then the Buddha Speaks!
We then decided to branch out and do another version that was still fun but with a different spin. Buddha always has awesome teachings and was a natural fit. So we came up with a cartoon version based on the fat laughing Budda or “Budai”. Same functionality, but new content and different target.
Neither of these apps were about making money as there are a ton of these types of apps, but really more about having some fun with design and getting users something fun to play with. Both really successful from that perspective and the uptick in sales was not a bad thing.
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