Today I am happy to report that an iPhone app that I built for fun several Saturdays ago with my cofounder Caleb Elston has been approved for the app store by Apple!  The app is called Sightglass Bingo and is played by spotting items in real life at Sightglass Coffee in San Francisco and marking them on a card to try to score a bingo. Share your victory out to Facebook/Twitter or just play for fun. We at Yobongo grab afternoon coffee far too often considering we have perfectly good beans/grinder/press in the office, so we decided to add a little more pizazz to our coffee trips.

Beyond wanting to play the app myself I had two other goals for the project. The first was to create an app using the sdk provided by the recently launched YC company Parse (http://parse.com). The second was to open source the app, both as a demo of how easy Parse is to use for something like this, as well as to gain the experience of open sourcing my first app. I hope that people will take the code I've written and take it far beyond what I have started. Go crazy and customize it for your own coffee shop, office, event, whatever you can think of. Port it to Android. Genericize (sp?) it and make a customizable version. Add a high scores list. The world is your oyster as a software engineer :)

Download the app at http://app.net/sightglassbingo and check out the code at https://github.com/dkasper/Sightglass-Bingo