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Sudoku Grab Nominated for the Most Creative Use of iPhone Hardware

Express your love for our app by casting your vote in this category using the provided link.

03 January 2010

How does it all work?

In this blog, I explain the process behind my Sudoku Grab app, a solution that uses basic image processing techniques to recognize Sudoku puzzles. This is done by locating the puzzle in an image, turning it back into a square form, segmenting it to find potential numbers, and lastly, recognizing those numbers. This involves simple thresholding techniques, blob extraction algorithm, perspective transform, and a Neural Network for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to recognize digits from the photograph. I conclude by mentioning the potential for multiple enhancements to this process.

14 August 2009

Sales stats update - 5 or 6 months on the app store

Apologies for the radio silence on sales stats for our app, but to be fair, there hasn't been much spark! After the US App Store feature, it was a sliding game down the charts, but still, we average about 10-30 copies daily. We excitedly crossed the 25,000 download mark recently. Oh, and there's a chart you can find below with more deets. A Dutch website brought a brief sales soar, but that's died down now. All told, we've clocked in 25591 paid and 8436 free downloads, the latter gaining a brief spotlight during a celebratory two-week freebie phase. Sure seems...

19 July 2009

25000 copies downloaded!

I'm thrilled to announce that Sudoku Grab has reached 25000 downloads! As a token of gratitude, the app will be available for free until the 25th June. A huge thank you to everyone who has purchased the app and for all the valuable feedback.

15 June 2009

Heading to the Apple WWDC

I'm off to San Francisco this Sunday for the Apple's WWDC event. I'm anticipating it will provide a lot of valuable insights for potential future enhancements.

05 June 2009

Sales stats update - Two months on the app store

Another month on the App Store, fellas! Even though our little app met some bumps here and there, it still managed to get quite the spotlight in Europe's 'What we're playing' section, grossing up to 200 daily sales in the UK, 300 globally. Took a hit when we dropped from the featured list, but that was expected, right? Thankfully, other countries picked up the slack! Brought in a new icon and broke into the US market, making a splash in their 'New and Noteworthy' section. Seems like being on the front page or featured list really makes a difference! Despite...

23 April 2009

Busy busy

Just landed back home after a couple US trips. It's time to roll up the sleeves and get busy now - have to update instructions for our 1.4 version, which isn't too different from 1.3 but with a few changes. Also, got to start working on 1.5. Let's do this!

16 April 2009

A couple of reviews

Our app has finally been reviewed by a couple of sites, namely 148apps and iPhone App Reviews. Unfortunately, our daily downloads in the US are still low, hovering around 10-20, and the app has moved off the front page of the app store in the UK, causing a significant drop in sales. Stay tuned for a detailed update in a couple of weeks. Appreciate all the support and readership.

09 April 2009