AngleCam: Selling Source Code
A couple of years ago, I developed AngleCam, an iPhone application that had, as its goal, redefining and facilitating trigonometry.
Instead of rewriting an entire description for you, let me copy / paste the one I had written when I submitted the app to the App Store:
What's so innovative about it? Well, if you've ever needed to calculate the value of an angle in a right triangle, you know how bothersome and repetitive it can be to do so using trigonometry. AngleCam takes care of that for you. And, while most applications make you input the values of the sides of a right triangle to calculate the values of the missing angles, AngleCam does all the work for you by simply using a picture of your angle. That's right – you don't have to know a single measure!
Here's what you do: Take a picture, and then select the three vertices of the triangle. Hit 'Calculate', and there you go, you're done. It's that simple.
AngleCam isn't only useful, it's superior to other apps in its field and here's why:
-It lets you calculate the value of angles in right triangles, without knowing a single measure, therefore succeeding in cases where it would be impossible to do so by hand.
-It does the math for you at blazing speeds, highly reducing the time necessary to calculate one of these angles.
-Indirectly, AngleCam lets you check if a triangle is right or not (indeed, if the triangle isn't right, AngleCam will notify you that it can't calculate the angle values).
-AngleCam doesn't only give you the value of angles in degrees, but also does so in radians.
AngleCam is adapted to every single device (excluding the iPad and the iPad 2), but remember, if your device doesn't have a camera, you can only calculate angles from pictures that are already saved to your iPod touch. Additionally (this is a basic rule of trigonometry) angles can only be calculated when the triangle they make up is a right one (meaning it has a 90° angle). Finally, AngleCam is quite precise, and if used correctly, will output a value for an angle that is 1/2 a degree close to the actual value. Most errors are due to bad usage, such as taking a photo of the triangle from too much of an angle (try to take photos parallel to the triangle), and not selecting the triangle's vertices accurately.
Not only was the application interesting to the daily user, but it was a really cool proof of concept for the developer interested in new technologies: indeed, AngleCam, even though it is very simple, was new stuff, and still is.
But here was my problem: who wants to buy an application that does this? Not many people, it's a very small market.
So, after taking the app off the Store around a year ago, I just had the idea to try and sell the source code to an app developer, particular, or company that feels a need for such software. Everybody would win: I wouldn't have wasted my time, and as I said, it's actually a pretty awesome concept.
However, as I've just discovered, it turns out it's very hard to find good places to sell code. Most of the websites that offer similar transactions seem kinda fishy to me...
Well, anyway, if anyone is interested in AngleCam's Objective-C source code, feel free to visit http://bolzan.biz/contact to shoot me an email, and please make an offer !
