Make My WP7 App

Silverlight is great for developers, and I really urge everyone to give it a shot. So in this post I will talk about my current project, which I am working HEAVILY on. It is basically a web application which will let users create their own custom Windows Phone 7 application. Check out the video of an early alpha version below.

The plan was to have uploaded the demo video overnight, then post this blog entry, and then have people request passwords. However, I have received an overwhelming response for this and I will try my level best to give everyone a chance at the application. Since I’m working fulltime, I will not be able to fulfill requests until tonight. I plan to create a request system through which everyone can receive their temporary password. This is because, like I mention in the video, the entire application is handled by a small server with limited network upload speeds. So there’s no clustering, no queuing, and thus no parallel processing. Those are all future implementation once I can get myself a dedicated Windows Server. So for now, each of you who have requested to play with the demo will get an email with a temporary password which will work for a given set of time frame and will let you make ONE app. You can submit more requests once I get the queuing application implemented. Expect all this tonight (maybe LATE tonight or EARLY tomorrow morning EST).

Finally, I would like to thank Pocketnow and 1800PocketPC and WMExperts and WMPowerUser for giving it press.

And Thanks to all for the OVERWHELMING response within just 10 hours!

Shoot Q&A via comments below or via twitter and I will post another blog post answering them.