Welcome
What is Wind-Up?
Wind-Up is an Android-based notepad for Twitter. It’s a place to store, craft and publish your tweets.
So it’s a Twitter Client?
Not exactly. Wind-Up doesn’t show you your timeline as a standard Twitter client would. Think of it more as a place to store and publish those ideas you have for tweets. Wind-Up is designed to be used alongside your normal Android client.
This sounds familiar.
Yes. It is largely based on Birdhouse, a beautifully conceived application for the iPhone, created by Adam Lisagor and Cameron Hunt. They’ve graciously allowed me to create an Android-based approximation of their baby under a somewhat different name.
How do I download Wind-Up?
The quickest way is just to seach for ‘Wind-Up’ on the Android market on your phone.
What’s it going to set me back?
It’s free! Wind-Up is, at its core, a personal foray into Android programming that I decided to put out to all of the other Android users I know. All 3 of them.
Why is it free?
While I believe that a multi-carrier, cross hardware-vendor mobile application market should beat the closed Apple application market in the long run, there’s a while to go before charging for something so niche would do anything but harm the market. (For a better explanation, see John Gruber’s thoughts.) This is me chipping in my two cents for something I believe in.
How can I help?
First and foremost - feedback. Email me (ryan.bateman at gmail) with your suggestions, comments, critiques or rambling stories.
Secondly - expertise. Are you an icon designer / UI guru? I am not. Put together what you think Wind-Up should look like and drop me some sketches. I may use it. There’s no money in it but you’ll get thanks from me, a note in the app and the recognition from your peers.
Thirdly - money. You can, if you feel it’s worth something, drop me a tip via Paypal. Your contributions will help me set up a simple website, create new features and allow me to keep up my decadent lifestyle of store-brand coffee and fish-finger sandwiches.
So… what’s next for Wind-Up?
Nicer UI, the ability to sort drafts, a widget and… well, we’ll see.
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