Hello, my name is Rob. Over the past 4 months I’ve been working with two other Stanford students to build a company, Swavv Applications, building iPhone apps for the college market. It’s been a journey from product deveopment, to dealing with Apple, to battling with fierce competitors. Hopefully I can help any other developers or entrepreneurs who want to cash into the mobile market…Hopefully
Swavv actually started as an end-of-summer project between me, one of my co-workers at a Silicon Valley startup, Rohan, and my summer roommate, Lucas. We decided to make iPhone apps while eating Ramen in our cramped dorm at Stanford. Before I get carried away with our ideas, let me introduce the team:
Rohan Bhobe: Rohan is a senior studying Electrical Engineering. He sets up the server-side handling for our online apps, in additon to being our designated stats-watcher. Other than coding and sending out team emails entitled “Check our our stats!”, Rohan is an avid Cricket fan and player.
Lucas Manfield: Lucas is a sophomore studying some blend of Philosophy, Literature, and Spanish? Sounds like an unlikely fit for an application startup, but Lucas writes all the code for our apps themselves. When he’s not dealing with Objective C, he’s probably playing squash or trying to catch up on actual classes.
Rob Balian: I’m also a sophomore studying Mechanical Engineering. My job description is slightly more ambiguous. After seeing some of my code, Lucas has asked me (kindly) not to write code anymore. However, I’m responsible for the graphics in our applications, marketing, and blogging about our efforts.
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