Being 22, involves less responsibilities and risks; though what you do while being in your twenties will mostly affect the rest of your life.

Around a year and a half ago I started Mobholic, was pretty exited about it.

It was a BlackBerry application, which measured almost everything you did on your phone and gave you a nationwide and international ranking.

People would be able to view these statistics on an interactive chart.

I found myself spending too much time working on different versions for different phones, and making the updates.

At that time (don’t know if it changed); with a BlackBerry App World account you were allowed 10 credits.

These credits are also forfeited if you update the application through app world! (which I think is completely useless)

So I decided to do updates through OTA (the users would be able to update manually when opening the application) but given the sensitivity of the application, because I was sending what the users did in time (but no text or personal info was sent ) I measured how many emails the users got / sent / deleted , the distance the user did in one day; […] to how many minutes the user used the phone for!

I slowly lost users, because the data was too sensitive and app world didn’t control anymore my app (and the users are right; its hard to trust someone you don’t know !)

I was waiting for Apple to announce some kind of APIs that would let me tap into that kind of information so I can port Mobholic; but it never happened.

A couple of months ago I took off Mobholic from app world; So I failed with Mobholic; and moved to other things !

Learned from that experience; this is certainly not a bad thing, even if it was a small project ; I learned a lot ! I forced myself wit deadlines (even though I also work as a .NET developer and have real life deadlines, having them on a personal note makes you advance a lot faster! )

I met people, got their feedback, learned how to listen..and learned how to convince..

I’m pretty sure I failed on a small level, a lot of people lose a lot of money; and I’ve read about people bouncing right up and making big.

Since then I’ve done the Imagine Cup (we won third place in the French Finals for the category Software Design), and a couple of other interesting projects like MindDrone and DeedDay (which I pitched in front of Steve Ballmer) .

I feel this is just the beginning ..Stay tuned ..and fail as much as you can (while learning !)

Quoting Dennis Crowley (CEO and Co-founder of Foursquare):  Foursquare's success is built from 10 years of failure ..