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Hey! I ran the Hot Apps competition when I was the lead developer advocate. I remember Pixi Dust. I was amazed you could get it so fast.

Fun story: there was no internal API for app stats so every morning I had to manually extract data via Excel, then run scripts to generate the JSON that powered the Hot Apps dashboard. Fun times.

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I remember you well!! I think my app Mazer came in second in the free category. Such happy, simpler times

https://appcatalog.webosarchive.com/showMuseumDetails.php?se...

The webOS dev community was amazing. I have such happy memories of that time. It made me happy that I got into this field. You all rock!

And now kiss! Classic HN :)

That's so cool! Of course with so many prizes on the line, I spent quite a bit of time (when I was visiting my grandparents in California none the less) over a weekend hacking together all of the ideas I could think of. It was a really great experience overall, and I'm glad you still remember Pixi Dust :)

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