Welcometo our world
We have recently been ranked as one of the top mobile application developers in Europe by Sourcing Line, an organization that does independent research on IT companies. Sourcing Line added us to their leaders' matrix, recognizing the quality of our work and communication.
Faraz, one of our designers, took an iPad with the home over the weekend and today we found this in the ‘Paper’ app…
Halaat-O-Meter is the crowd sourced platform we recently launched to enable residents to posts update on their neighbourhood during times of trouble. The initial response of, especially, the people of Karachi was overwhelming and today we found that Halaat-o-meter is even featured at Al Jazeera. Anyone can report the current situation in his neighborhood (we call this the ‘halaat’, in Pakistan) on a real time map.
We are currently working on the “Don’t push the buttons” app, a rich children’s picture book with lots of funny games. The book has been written by Corien Oranje and is illustrated by Willeke Brouwer. Yesterday the voice recordings for the app were done in Ton Kerkhof’s studio in English, Indonesian, Dutch and Frysk. Thanks Richard, Anna Margriet and Mila!
Our production office is based in Karachi (Pakistan), a great and vibrant city but not a typical place when it comes to safe traveling. As we, and our 20 million fellow citizens, often wonder if we can travel safely to certain areas of our city, we decided to build a halaat-o-meter. A platform for anyone to share the current safety situation in his neighborhood, using Google Maps, Facebook, and the user’s input.
We are very happy as a team, but we feel that we are missing the warmth, company and support of a talented UI designer/front-end developer and a driven Android app developer.
Last month we 4 new developers joined the Grappetite team. Sobia, Asna and Yumna will be developing iOS, Android apps and (mobile) websites while Haris will be leading the development team.
Last week, the Google Developers Group Karachi organized GDG DevFest for the first time. It is an event for those interested in Google developers’ technology. And guess what…. we are too 😊
Grappetite wishes their valuable family, friends, and business partners a Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2013!
For ZIG Websoftware we just started working on an iPad app. For thirteen years, ZIG Websoftware has been developing internet solutions that focus on interaction and collaboration. Adding mobile to these solutions is just a logical step forward. We can’t share anything about the app yet, so stay tuned 😊