Carnegie Mellon Student Sells iPhone App, Justifies Nerdiness
Posted on August 27, 2008
Filed Under Techno-file | By Zack Barangan
Jeffrey Grossman, a student at Carnegie Mellon University just cashed in. Flixster, the movie based social media network, has acquired Grossman’s iPhone app (appropriately named Movies.app) for an undisclosed amount. Suffice to say, the kid probably made bank. It’s the first known acquisition of an iPhone app.
And if that wasn’t a sweet enough deal, Flixster has hired Grossman as a consultant while he is still in school. The kid’s stock just keeps on rising.
The program, which has been downloaded 250,000 times so far, allows users to look up show times, watch trailers, and get maps to nearby theaters. Flixster has updated Movies.app to give users access to their database of over 70,000 movies for reference purposes. There are also plans to allow users to integrate their Flixster accounts.
(Source: TechCrunch)
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