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by codesink 4941 days ago
I made AppLens (formely AppSnap) a iphone app that lets you install any other iphone app by taking a picture of its icon (on other phones or laptop screens or anything else).

It's a free app + ads, most of its users are from china and japan.

Money-wise definitely not an hit!

I spent quite a bit on time to develop the backend part (in C) and optimized it to query 3mil icons in few ms on a commodity server (cheap).

http://bit.ly/Szmy7X

2 comments

Cool idea, liked it! Can you give some hints about the image processing you have done or what kind of trick did you use?
This is incredibly awesome.
Thanks!! :)