Aral Balkan

I just released my new iPhone app, a labor of love called Feathers.

It's a fun little app for decorating tweets, Facebook status updates, emails – anything you can paste text in, really, using your iPhone. Check out the site for a quick 1-minute screencast that takes you through it.

Feathers is on introductory sale at just US $0.99 / UK £0.59 / EU €0,79 – go grab it now and have a little fun with your tweets.

Help me take feathers to the Top 25 in Social Networking

I really worked hard to try and make Feathers a lovely little app to use. There's nothing I'd like more than to see it succeed in the App Store. So, I just set up a Facebook group titled Help make Aral's new app reach Top 25 on the App Store! – will you help me? With your help we can take Feathers to the Top 25.

Please join the Facebook group, tweet, blog, tell your friends! I'm already overwhelmed by the enthusiasm I'm seeing on Twitter just moments after the launch - if we can keep this going, I'm sure we'll see the little guy pop up on the App Store list soon!

Thank you all for your support and I really hope you enjoy playing with Feathers.

Comments

• Hi Steve, No worries (and no offence taken) :) I hear you on the difficulty of launching non-client projects (and the even harder job of saying no to client projects in the meanwhile while watching your bank balance slowly eroding) – good luck with your projects; sometimes the only thing to do is to take one, bite the bullet, and finish it. Nothing beats the feeling of seeing it out there and being used by people (especially if they love it!) :) I look forward to seeing _your_ next project. Please drop me a line when it's ready + good luck!

  by Aral on 2010-02-14 10:36:50

• Aral, Apologies - the tone of my previous comment was not what I intended, hadn't meant to sound quite so negative. Whatever my thoughts on the app, launching a 'non-client' project is always a great achievement. My life is full of half-finished projects which never saw the light of day - your hard work and enthusiasm is very impressive. Best of luck with the app(s)

  by Steve Johns on 2010-02-14 02:14:44

• Is it me, or is this exactly the kind of app we don't need? Twitter goes Disney - great! The interface looks lovely, nice job on that, but really.... secret codes? Upside down text? Really?

  by Steve Johns on 2010-02-13 02:55:39

• Hi Steve, Feathers is not _meant_ to be a serious app (or cure world hunger) :) That said, I'd like to see more people explore the fun and artistic aspects of Twitter. I totally understand if it's not an app that you would use but I don't understand who the grand "we" you refer to is. Part of what's great about Twitter is that there are lots of "we"s and you get to follow the ones who interest you. :) (And thank-you for your kind words on the interface, I appreciate it!) :)

  by Aral on 2010-02-13 14:01:53