For those that don’t know us our names are Andrei Terentiev and Apisit Toompakdee and we're two software engineers based out of Tokyo, Japan. Last year we began making the O3 mobile wallet, a mobile NEO client for iOS. We were able to have our product live on the App Store for about one week, and gained several thousand users from all around the world before being removed from the app store. You can read more about that here.
https://steemit.com/neo/@saltyskip/o3-wallet-being-removed-by-apple-we-need-your-help
Obviously we were devastated at the time, but after seeing the potential and enthusiasm from the community, we put our heads down and got back to work. A global user graph like this after only one week was something we simply couldn’t ignore.
To this day we receive support email from people all walks of life and all over the world, and it solidified our belief that blockchain is and will continue to be a global tool for financial good.
During December and January we continued to appeal the Apple Decision, and built out the Android Version of O3. Today we are excited to have a public relaunch of both versions of the wallets. Which You can download below.
For iOS we are still working on the appeal to get back on the app store, unfortunately it is a long process with many back and forth discussions, but we are making progress. For the time being, we can still distribute the iOS via testflight, and we’ve set up an easy way to onboard yourself and easily receive updates from the link above.
We are eternally grateful to the hundreds of users that have continued to use our application while we were removed, and we promise to not let you down.
We're not going to rest until NEO is an approved currency/platform by Apple.
O3 has now transformed from a side project built in Apisit's apartment on nights and weekends to a real company, O3 Labs. We're one of the first companies to come from within the community, but I suspect we certainly won't be the last.
Where we are at now:
We're currently working out of an incubator space in Tokyo http://techlabpaak.com/. This space is run by Recruit Holdings, which is one of the largest conglomerates in Japan with nearly 40,000 employees. We aim to continue to grow our business as well as the NEO community in Tokyo by hosting events and workshops.
Even more exciting is that our work was noticed by the NEO council who has officially sponsored us to continue to build out our applications. I hope that our story can inspire other developers to do good work and and show it to others, because there are certainly opportunities available to get support for your project.
Over the next few weeks we want to focus on a few main things: user support, finishing up some outstanding features, and promoting NEO globally through our application. We hope that you'll work with us to make sure that NEO has the best mobile client of any blockchain platform as we all continue to build the NEO smart economy together.
Please follow us on Twitter at O3Labs (@O3_Labs) | Twitter to get all our latest updates.
We’ll also be speaking at NEO Devcon! So please come check us out as we talk about blockchain UX, community efforts, our product, and our tech stack.
Lastly, If you are designer or developer who us interested in building Finance 2.0. Drop us a line. We are hiring! hello@o3.network
Regards
Andrei and Apisit