We won Mobile 2.0!
Stefano J. AttardiWe won the Mobile 2.0 award for best early-stage startup. See you at the next Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco!
Zipiko Blog
intention broadcasting
Stefano J. AttardiOur first screencast shows you briefly the main functions of Zipiko.
It was done in one take, and it started hailing in the middle of it… no joke!
Technical Background
Stefano J. AttardiThe first prototype of Zipiko was developed in Python with Django and Sqlite, and was hosted on SliceHost.
Shortly after we presented Zipiko at the Media Lab Helsinki Demo Day, Google announced the Google App Engine.
As we were debating strategies for scaling, I decided it was worth a shot to port Zipiko to App Engine. A few days later, Zipiko was happily running on the Google infrastructure.
I’m really excited about how Google has managed to make all the typical web development headaches dead easy. Scaling over multiple servers is completely transparent, and deployment is simpler than ever. Uploading a new version takes one click. So does creating a test site for a new version, and making it live when it’s ready. All foolproof. Plus, they have excellent stats and logs to make sure your application is running dandy.
I’m currently making sure that everything is production-ready behind the scenes, starting with improving the data model to better take advantage of the Google datastore, BigTable.
Stefano J. Attardi
Stefano J. AttardiHi, I’m Stefano. I’m an interface designer and web developer. I joined Zipipop recently to work on Zipiko. From now on I will use this blog to tell more about myself, Zipiko, and the team and methods behind it.
“ Narrow the focus. Your “use case” should be, there’s a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?
Jeremy Zawinski, Groupware Bad
