iBurrp – Burrp for iPhone by desistartups
Hackers at desistartups (That’s me 
), sat down on a friday night (Saturday morning, its nearly 2 am dude). Their motto is to create an iPhone version of a product and spread the awareness among the Indian Startups to start building iPhone versions. To give some figure, there are already more than 100+ users with an iPhone in India. This figure would become big, once iPhone officially arrives!
I chose Burrp to start with. Why? Neatly done product. Heavy use of Javascript objects. Recently released api and widget. Co-founder was un-happy with hiring in India! The product is aptly named iBurrp. (Burrp are you watching?)
| Step #1 How Burrp appears currently? | |
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Like you see their home page is not appearing pretty. |
| Step #2 Lets Hack a little | |
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Thanks to Widgets, I was able to extract out necessary Javascripts, remove “Powered by Burrp” text and add “iBurrp by desistartups” text. |
| Step #3 Fix stylesheet | |
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| Step #4 iPhonize me | |
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In this step, I have fixed the stylesheet to resemble any iPhone app out there. Made changes to viewport so that the form controls appear cleanly! |
| Step #5 Play around with Controls | |
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| Step #6 AJAX works without any fix – Hats off guys! | |
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| Step #7 Lets click Search button | |
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Wow, Search Results appear nicely. Thanks to my css fix! |
Step #8 Send2Phone didn’t send me sms  |
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| Step #9 View a Review | |
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Not so clean. To fix this, I have to sit with them and generate the html in iPhone friendly format. Or can scrap and present the required content alone. No time to setup a website – may be Burrp could. How about iphone.burrp.com? |
| Step #10 Finder View | |
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That’s it, we are done.What is next? Willing to hack another website … you can recommend your site using the comments section below!
Happy iPhoning,
-Prabhu
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December 22, 2008