Jane at Setting Contexts recently published "Interview: Overcommitted on Ember (Campfire for the iPhone)."
Right after I posted my Q&A with Morfunk’s David Kaneda a couple of months ago (I’m still a big Outpost fan!), I received a great outreach email from Overcommitted, telling me about Ember. Ember brings Campfire (the 37signals group chat application) to the iPhone – and fills a huge gap in my own productivity needs. I’ve been using the new version of Ember for about a week (in fact, a lot of the follow-up questions were discussed in Campfire), and I have to say it’s a noticeable improvement over V.1 in speed and feature set.
The interview discusses how the Overcommitted team got started, how they decided on price, the development process, etc.
> How do you guys use Campfire and why was that the app you wanted to focus on first?None of us live in the same city and rarely get the chance to work together face to face. Campfire has been invaluable for helping us keep in touch across time zones and work schedules. We use it to discuss iterations for the various apps we’re working on, show sketches and talk through code. We developed Ember first because we knew we could get immediate use for it and felt other iPhone development teams could benefit.
Ember works on iPhones/iPod Touches running version 3.0 software or above and is available on the iTunes AppStore here.
