Two Home Town Boys set iPhone Apps Ablaze!
Marshall and Parker Minardo created Emergency Radio, an iPhone app that gives users access to more than 1200 radio feeds from police, fire and emergency frequencies around the country. (from AZStarnet)
Within days of its launch in early May, the application shot up to No. 2 on Apple's list of paid applications. As of Friday, Emergency Radio was still ranked in the top 40.
More than 180,000 iPhone and iPod Touch owners have downloaded Emergency Radio, and the application is currently averaging between 1,000 and 1,200 downloads per day, said 20-year-old Parker, Edgerift's CEO.
The Minardos — who run the business out of their East Side home — keep 70 cents from each sale, so the application is making the brothers flush with cash.
"Maybe we'll go out to breakfast," deadpanned Marshall, 26, the company president. "We haven't made any plans to celebrate. We're just trying to keep it going."