Ask HN: What should I do about potential patent trouble?
==== Edit: I thought keeping this pseudo-anonymous would make it less of a drama post. A few friends have suggested otherwise: http://backtrackapp.com is my app. It's a location tracking app with a web front end and social features. I only built this for the realtime web component, which hasn't been implemented yet. You'll read about this (and why) below. http://glympse.com is the app filing for the patent. ==== Dear HN, A few weeks ago, I launched my first iPhone app. I am new to the mobile space and to ObjC, so I figured this would be good, fun exercise in building something I wanted to use myself and turning into a product. With ios4 out, the main premise behind the app seemed like a good idea, and nobody else was doing it yet. So I found a trusted friend, and we built the app and companion website in just under three weeks, part time. We waited the standard two weeks to get approved
Why it failed
==== Edit: I thought keeping this pseudo-anonymous would make it less of a drama post. A few friends have suggested otherwise: http://backtrackapp.com is my app. It's a location tracking app with a web front end and social features. I only built this for the realtime web componen
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- nphase
- Ended
- 2010
- Source
- hackernews