iPhone AIM/MSN/Yahoo IM/ICQ App?

[dannyallen34]

I'm looking to start a small team of coders to develop an iPhone AJAX app, similar to meebo, that would allow users to login and send/receive IMs through our app.

Does anyone want to help start developing one? I'm not sure what language we could use, but if it is PHP, then I could help. I can also help with the design. I really want to increase the interest to create an IM app before iPhone launch.

 

[nickspohn]

I can supply the host and bandwidth.

 

[ThomasShaped]

Yes! Please create this. I was really gutted when i heard there would be no messenger app for the iPhone.

Would it function and look just like the SMS app?

 

[cyberdogl2]

i can help beta test =P

on the real, i'll give anything to the project i can, just spout out what you need and if i can give it i definitely will. i wanna see this project get somewhere big fast.

 

[applehero]

Would be very cool. I have a feeling iChat will be part of iPhone before year's end, if not sooner.

 

[NJDevils44]

I'd be interested, I could contribute graphically mainly.

 

[applehero]

I'm onboard as well, I'll help where I can. Give a shout with what you need. I'm not much of a web programmer, been a while.

 

[dannyallen34]

I have a good understanding of PHP, but I have never tried to create an AIM client in it (or any other IM). So, I really need someone to take charge of the code development. Anyone else out there that could help?

BTW, Here is a mockup of what I was thinking:

 

[ThomasShaped]

BTW, Here is a mockup of what I was thinking:

Could you not just have something like this? (attachment)

I have a small understanding of coding but nothing too major so i probably wouldn't be too much help..

 

[dannyallen34]

Well, it would be running in Safari. I wanted to include tabbed messaging so that you could have more than one convo and switch with one tap. I wanted to also be able to sign out and close convos with one click. If the app was spread over multiple screens, then it could be simplified. But, I'd really like to keep that bar for tabbed multiple convos.

 

[CoachKrzyzewski]

if worst came to worst, couldn't you just go to meebo.com? i know it's not elegant, but it'll get the job done.

 

[sportsfanMAW]

sounds great! please do it!

 

[MarkW19]

This would be good, as a temporary solution until official iChat comes along with Jabber support (which it has to, soon)...

 

[DoFoT9]

all i could supply would be moral support!!! hahah. other than that im worthless

 

[rbailer]

I think this is a great idea. I know php pretty well, so send me a message if my help is needed.

 

[edka]

I can help out too, i can help debug and testing if you want to
by the way I think you should add an Emoticons box and Display pictures next to the name

Edit: I just find out that all the codes to connect to msn or yahoo or aim are online all you have to do is to customise it

http://code.google.com/p/mzk/ this is for msn messenger

 

[dannyallen34]

I'm sending some PMs to people who are interested in helping. I'll create a message board/website to allow people to collaborate on this project. We really need the help of some programmers to work on the IM backend. I don't think that creating an IM client is something that is normally done with PHP, so we need talented programmers who can figure it out.

 

[AppleIntelRock]

In just a short amount of time look what you guys have come up with! This web-based application thing could turn out to be great!

4life!

15 more days!

 

[Aperture]

I wouldn't be much help but have you considered contacting the developers of the Digg app and One Trip?

Edit: I'm no programmer, but I found this; dunno if it helps.

 

[phungy]

Would love to see this!

 

[BigPrince]

cool. Wish i knew enough programing to help.

 

[AppleIntelRock]

if $ for bandwith becomes an issue, lets start a paypal donation fund

 

[dannyallen34]

I wouldn't be much help but have you considered contacting the developers of the Digg app and One Trip?

Edit: I'm no programmer, but I found this; dunno if it helps.

That looks like it could be of some help. Except the book costs $70 lol. That looks like it doesn't connect to AIM etc, though. It is a stand alone IM server, so it couldn't be applied to connect to a popular service. Thanks for the help, though.

 

[dannyallen34]

Maybe there will be no need for a development team. The people at http://www.ebuddy.com have a mobile version. Perhaps we can convince them or the people at meebo.com to create an iPhone-optimized version.

It should be a lot easier than building the IM backends from scratch.

 

[loudestnoise]

The folks at meebo are pretty cool, I wouldn't be surprised if they did make a iPhone friendly version. I certainly will be trying to use their existing client on my iPhone. Who is to say it wont work as is now?