Remember MoFo Hackathon we did in February? It resulted in Ikonica, a gorgeous app for designers that that ranked #1 in few Mac App Stores and had thousands of downloads within the first few days upon its launch.

Good news, we’re doing it again!

This time, Appricot is developing a product that will help teams, startups, entrepreneurs stay in the loop during product development phase. We are creating Loop: Mac app that curates the most important actions from the services like Dropbox, Bitbucket, Asana, etc. and displays them in a simple avatar based notification panel on your desktop.

MoFo Hackathon #2 has started at 2am PST and will continue for the next 48 hours until we finish the app and send for the review in the Mac App Store. Once again, we will spend the next 2 days working, eating, sleeping together (but separately) at the office and we will have Loop developed. Please follow our progress via Live Stream, Twitter or Facebook and give us your support. 

MoFo Team:

Igor Salindrija - Project Management
Mladjan Antic - OSX Development
Boris Ceranic - Backend and API
Nina Radenkovic - OSX UI Design
Filip Salindrija - Web Design
Aleksandar Ruzicic - Website coding + backend stuff
Chaky - Backend stuff
Maja Grujic - Marketing

Event updates

3:34am - We are pretty sure we have a super simple UI!

7:00am - Developers are still figuring out the API integration process.

08:34am - That’s a pretty neat logo! Infinite Loop. Sounds Familiar?

09:31am - …while designers are busy making something out of nothing, coders make sure stuff actually works.

1:51pm - Prototyping OSX app icon.

4:14pm - Wait, it seemed as a pretty much stupid simple app :S

5:24pm - Btw, we acquired getloop.com domain. Pretty neat, isn’t it? We love it!

5:41am - Still awake. Yeah… interface coding.

5:17pm - Some alpha version of Loop is finally installed on my Mac! Still have a glitches, but works like a charm!

2:01am - Finishing a video. We’re crazy after 48 hours insomnia.

“I’d personally like to thank the Appricot team for the hardest working weekend ever. During this Hackathon we created something useful and beautiful. Each person gave it’s best and after 48 hours the end result is beyond all the expectations.

We spent the whole weekend at the office, working, eating and taking turns sleeping to maximize our productivity. I would love to see more events like this in Serbia’s tech or any other industry. I really believe that we spent this weekend so much better than the people who just went partying. This was so much fun too! You can expect more events like this from Appricot in the near future. On Monday, we’re getting back to finishing up our big project Appidemia and we’re so excited to see the it finished and launched.”

Igor Salindrija, Founder of Appricot

Appricot team has decided to have a MoFo Hackathon this weekend at our HQ.

This is how it’s gonna go down: starting today at noon (GMT+1), we will work continuously for the next 48 hours to develop our newest app and submit it to the AppStore.

We are creating a much needed app for all the designers out there.

This app will be a simple tool that will allow you to test the design of your iOS app icon on various platforms before you release it. 

These are the brave members of our team who took upon this challenge:

Igor Salindrija - Project Management
Mladjan Antic - iOS Development
Pedja Rusic - iPhone app UI Design
Filip Salindrija - Mac app UI Design
Nina Radenkovic - Illustrations + website + marketing materials
Aleksandar Ruzicic - Website coding + backend stuff
Chaky - Backend stuff

We will spend the next 2 days working, eating, sleeping together (but separately) at the office and we will make this happen. Please follow our progress via Live Stream, Twitter or Facebook and give us your support. Plus, you’ll be among the first ones to download the app from the AppStore.

Event Updates:

2:18pm - Our rough idea is being conceptualised. Our master designers are doing the mockups.

3:22pm - Single cam stream is finally live! Soon you’ll see more. Watch us via Ustream.

3:54pm - We came up with the project name: “Ikonica”.

4:04pm - We registered the domain ikonica.me.

4:49pm - Problems with live stream (as usual).

7:47pm - @pedja_r is sketching the icon for Ikonica app.

00:45am - Icon design for Ikonica Mac app is done.

2:17am - Website home page is almost done. This is just a sneak peak and we will show you the rest soon.

4:37pm - Ikonica iOS icon has been crafted.

6:46am - Some are still awake.

5:04pm - All apps are almost done. We’re working on polishing interfaces.

5:16pm - The video guy has just arrived. Storyboard is on the table.

12:00pm - Hackathon is over. Check out the video below and our app’s official website at ikonica.me

2:25pm - Over & out. Thank you for following our progress! We are truly  hope that you’ll like Ikonica. For more updates follow us on our official Twitter and Facebook pages.

We are working hard to finish the development of our iPhone app and in the spirit of the holidays, we have decided to give out an iPad mini to one lucky person who signs up for our beta invite before Jan 1st, 2013. The giveaway is pretty simple: you sign up and share with your friends on Facebook or Twitter and you might be the one to win the prize. The winner will be chosen randomly and we will publish it on our social media accounts on Jan 1st.

Appidemia wishes you happy holidays and as far as the giveaway goes- may the odds be ever in your favor :)

Last weekend was a great team building experience for us: we had some quality R&R outdoors, talked about future projects and had creative brainstorming sessions. We talked about upcoming milestone, our present identity and set up some new goals.

We have focused on continuously improving our team spirit through communication and motivation. We share enthusiasm, talk about ideas and work together on strengthening our professional growth.

We know exactly what our advantage is and how we can advance with team effort and dedication. Our work is our play, which makes our mission possible. This is exciting time for us and we are confident that we can do whatever we set out to.

Appricot is looking forward to turn ideas into reality.

       We enjoyed our relaxing, de-stress sessions by the pool…

       Chillin like a villain :)

       Into the blue.

       Time to dominate!

       Just shooting some pool…Like a boss.

       Programmers vs. Designers

       Ah, the great outdoors…

       Whatchu lookin at? :)

       Amazing food all weekend.

       The weather was perfect.

      Time for some girly drinks :)

       Smile for the camera!

       Still lookin at me? Mkay, I’ll smile… :)

       The Nutcracker. 

       One big happy family. 

Appricot is a young startup located in Belgrade with the vision and a culture of big, global companies. We are building a project based on web and mobile platforms and tend to offer it to the millions of users.

We are looking for a Senior PHP Developer to join our growing team.

Responsibilities

• Backend Development
• Implement new functionality, improve existing infrastructure
• Work with large amount of data

Requirements

• Responsibility and passion for engineering
• Ability to adapt quickly and work well in a team environment
• PHP (minimum 3 years experience)
• MySQL (minimum 2 years experience)
• JavaScript/CSS/HTML Basic Knowledge
• Git or any SCM system
• Personal projects that show an amplitude for engineering and product sense
• Residence in Belgrade

Desirable

• Experience using MVC Framework (Preferably Kohana or Codeigniter)
• Experience in Nginx server configuration
• Experience working in a cloud environment
• Experience with distributed data storage and processing
• Basics of Unix administration

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Full-time employment
• Flexible working hours
• Paid time off
• Technical Equipment
• Company dinners & happy hour
• Friendly Environment
• Much more…

We are looking for a passionate, dedicated and reliable candidate to join our team. Please send your resume (in english or serbian) to jobs@appricot.co if you believe this is the right position for you.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Hey guys, we’re finally in SF. It was a long 35 hour trip full of flight delays, lost wallets and 2 tornadoes in NY. But we’ve made it, and couldn’t be more excited about the next 3 days at Tech Crunch Disrupt.

Right now we’re prepping for our exhibit tomorrow morning in Startup Alley. Just a few more hours and the craziness begins! We’re super motivated to present our planet Appidemia and check out other startups from around the world. Tomorrow is a big day and we still have a lot of work to do, so we’ll check back with you later… Bye!