Wish you a Very Happy New Year 2011 - Looking back to 2010

The Year 2010 was very interesting for Darshana, me, AppKettle and Birth of DealOnPune.com. Let's rewind back.

In February 2010 I took-up a new position at Openwave as a Sr.Product Manager for their Mobile Analytics & Advertisement Platform, to help change the world of mobile adverting for good. Its been fun working here, and love the challenge of solving complex problems and building a system to handle Peta bytes of data on daily basis.

Mid 2010, Darshana also tookup a new opportunity as an Database Software Engineer at ADP, where she building the next generation processes & technology for inventory processing system in Automobile Industry, as the mobile is changing the whole behavior of the world.

As for AppKettle, its been a quite nice year, not as rocking as 2009.



We launched GRE App on Android, helping people to learn quickly easily on their GRE Vocabulary. This App has takes all the great features of top GRE apps out in market and all best features are into this app, thus making one of great GRE Vocab apps on the market place. Special thanks to Darshana to build the app & Samtha Chordia for Graphic Designs.

With Access Bollywood App, we crossed nearly half million downloads of the Apps (Combine iPhone, Android), this year. Until the mid 2010 the app download growth was really slow, but the later half 2010 we saw good growth. With this promising growth, we have decided to push new updates to Access Bollywood App early this year.

Coming to Indian Railway Schedule, the app download growth has been really slow, until late this year, just because Android sales just started picking-up in India. The App was selected by the Telecom News as one of the Top 5 Apps for Indian users and also have been covered by couple of other bloggers. Thanks ton for all your support.
We are planning to bring more railway features to this app, by March of this year.


Late last year in December it was the birth of DealOnPune.com, a website focused on bringing best local deals to puneites to enable everyone to enjoy the city at affordable cost. The site has been launched in beta, and we are getting feedback from users and ironing out small details.

So how does it work? We work with local business to great discounts deals like 50% to 90% for people of Pune. For e.g you are looking for a great hair-cut and facial, you can right now logon to the website and buy the highly discount coupon at really low cost and can use the coupon when you visit the Saloon/Spa, thus saving 70%. Isn't that great. In short we say "Savings Made Simple"

Special thanks to Rahul Bafna who is running the show on the grounds and Samtha Chordia for awesome creative designs, banners and logos, you guys rock!!

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Well 2010 has been a hell of ride for us, and we are excited about 2011 for us, AppKettle and DealOnPune.

Once again thank you all AppKettle fans for your special support in 2010!! Appreciate it!

Happy New Year! Wish you achieve great success this year!

Cheers!!
Vishal