Aight, we've been busy the last week with competitions and reviews, this week we're taking a quick break... but we're not just sitting on our asses, nope, we were contacted by Limestone Software about a free app that they made to make a climbers life just that little bit easier.
Making apps isn't easy, look at Noodles, he makes video games for a living and it's no fun thing. Now Limestone (who are Montreal based) have put out a climbing grade converter for free, we decided to sit down and have a chat with them about it.
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| Route converter |
1. Name and job
François Campeau full time software developer at Asset Science
and co-founder of Limestone Software and Martin Morissette, full time
software developer at 8D Technologies and co-founder of Limestone
Software.
2. Company name, and what do you do?
Limestone Software is an indie
mobile application development company focused on crafting quality
consumer software. We are currently concentrating our efforts towards
the design of iPhone and iPad applications related to our fields of
interest, namely climbing and photography.
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| Bouldering conversion |
3. So you decided to make a grade converter why?
We found that the market lacked a well designed and tough out climbing
grade converter and we needed one for out last trip to Tonsai in
Thailand. Furthermore, Redpoint was a great starting point to
familiarize ourselves with the submission process on the Apple App Store
and the perfect little app to start out our company's portfolio.
4. What formats is the converter available upon?
Redpoint is currently only available for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod
Touch and iPad) We are open to porting it to other platform if there is
enough demand for it.
Yes we were very
conscious of that fact when we launched Redpoint and it's important for
us that always remains free. Although elegantly designed ;-) we don't
feel people should have to pay for such a simple app. See it as a gift
to the climbing community which as been very generous to us since we
started climbing a few years ago and also a way to get our company's
name out there.
6. Do you have plans for more climbing related apps?
Yes we have lot's of ideas
for more climbing related apps but right now we are focusing on our
second app which will be photography related
You can get the Grade Converter from the below two links, if you like it please review it!!
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