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Meet the man behind the ‘iFart’ app for iPhone, iPod touch

Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 10:23 AM EDT

The Orlando Sentinel's Etan Horowitz interviews Joel Comm, an Internet entrepreneur, the author of a book on Google AdSense and a forthcoming one on Twitter, and also the creator of "iFart Mobile," a 99-cent iPhone and iPod touch application that generates fart noises.

Question: What is the iFart Mobile iPhone application that you created?
Answer: It’s an electronic entertainment or sound machine. It produces flatulence noises. There are a number you can select from. Each has their own name and you push the button to fart now and it makes the sound. We built in a few other interesting features like the sneak attack which you can set to go off after a certain number of seconds or minutes. And the security fart, which when you put the phone down after five seconds, it goes into alarm mode and if anybody picks the phone up, and it detects motion, then it lets off the designated sound. We also included fart a friend, which lets you e-mail a selected sound to another e-mail address. And then there is the ‘record a fart,’ which lets you add a custom sound to the selection wheel.

Q: Why did you make it?
A: As soon as Apple announced they would release a software development kit, we knew we had to develop iPhone applications. I knew this device would be the definitive handheld computer. I pulled my executive team to the conference room and we went to the whiteboard and started writing down all kinds of ideas. None of us can remember who came up with the idea of a fart machine, but we just cracked up when we thought about it and said ‘we have to develop this.’ That was it. A bunch of grown men allowing their inner 12-year-old to express themselves. We knew it would sell.

Q: You have sold more than 350,000 copies of the 99 cent-app and for a few weeks it was the most downloaded program in the iTunes App Store. Why has it sold so well?
A: It’s a subject matter that never goes out of style. If you go back to Shakespeare you can find lines about flatulence in his writing. It’s something that everyone can identify with.

More here.

Vvia Apple's iTunes App Store: iFart Mobile ($0.99).

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Feb 03, 09 - 11:28 am Comment from: YES ON 8

Whew! This article stinks!

Feb 03, 09 - 11:32 am Comment from: Ariana's Weight Loss Story

This is a very interesting story, Arianna agrees.

Feb 03, 09 - 11:43 am Comment from: dzir

i love both 'pull my finger' and 'iFart'!!! a phone that can take the blame for me is a phone after my own fart!!! when people ask me why they smell, i tell them 'its an iPhone 3G!!! 2nd gen!!! i love it!!!'

Feb 03, 09 - 12:04 pm Comment from: clinicaltechmaster

I guess many people have an earthy part to themselves.

Feb 03, 09 - 12:07 pm Comment from: Ouate de Phoque

Have you ever asked your child a question too many times?
My three-year-old son had a lot of problems with potty training and I was on him constantly.
One day we stopped at Taco Bell for a quick lunch, in between errands
It was very busy, with a full dining room.
While enjoying my taco, I smelled something funny,
so of course I checked my seven-month-old daughter, she was clean.
Then I realized that Danny had not asked to go potty in a while.
I asked him if he needed to go, and he said "No" .
I kept thinking
"Oh Lord, that child has had an accident, and I don't have any clothes with me."
Then I said, "Danny, are you SURE you didn't have an accident?"
"No," he replied.
I just KNEW that he must have had an accident, because the smell was getting worse.
Soooooo, I asked one more time, "Danny did you have an accident ? This time he jumped up, yanked down his pants, bent over, spread his cheeks and yelled
"SEE MOM, IT'S JUST FARTS!!"
While 30 people nearly choked to death on their tacos laughing,
he calmly pulled up his pants and sat down.
An old couple made me feel better,
thanking me for the best laugh they'd ever had!

Well...........It's a fart story

Feb 03, 09 - 12:12 pm Comment from: ron

Sinking lower by the day. No couth left in the country. Sad.

Feb 03, 09 - 12:19 pm Comment from: MidWest Mac

@ Ron

Put a pipe in it, you OLD FART!

Feb 03, 09 - 12:40 pm Comment from: Always Right

Which is better?
ifart, or Pull My Finger?

Feb 03, 09 - 12:42 pm Comment from: TowerTone

Wow. Looks like this app has put the wind in their sales....

Feb 03, 09 - 12:44 pm Comment from: Dirty Pierre le Punk

Could somebody open a window please?

Feb 03, 09 - 12:52 pm Comment from: ron

"Put a pipe in it, you OLD FART!
"

I know, I know.

Old ones are better.

With a pipe in it, you can't.

Feb 03, 09 - 01:00 pm Comment from: aaplsaur

@Always Right,

I prefer iFart. There is better fidelity in the audio reproductions, a faster, simpler interface and the ability to record-a-fart. Plus you can email a fart. Who hasn't wanted to do that?

Feb 03, 09 - 01:19 pm Comment from: TowerTone

Is the email considered an "iFart in your general direction"?

Feb 03, 09 - 01:24 pm Comment from: Human

Express yourself... just fart. It defines who you are.

Feb 03, 09 - 01:34 pm Comment from: Boghog

@Human:
> Express yourself
"Making yourself heard"
Opps, wrong brand!

Feb 03, 09 - 02:00 pm Comment from: Buster

Why do farts smell?

For the benefit of the deaf!

Feb 03, 09 - 02:04 pm Comment from: SmartFart

Thanks for bringing up Shakespeare, this makes me feel sooo much better when I fart.

Feb 03, 09 - 02:09 pm Comment from: Windy City

@Buster and @Ouate de Phoque

Thanks for the great laugh. Sorry to admit it, but these comments have been the most entertaining ones I've read for an MDN article.

Feb 03, 09 - 02:21 pm Comment from: Cubert

I always pictured this guy looking like Fat Bastard from Austin Powers.

Feb 03, 09 - 02:25 pm Comment from: Cubert

iFart Mobile? You mean they have a desktop version of it?

That will come in handy at the office.

"It was the computer, I swear......and uh.....it's got that new scent technology."

Feb 03, 09 - 03:39 pm Comment from: jas67

The desktop version has been out for a while. It is from a little known company in Redmond Washington. The latest version is called "Vista". It doesn't make a fart sound, it just stinks.

Feb 03, 09 - 05:49 pm Comment from: BillyBob@home

Ouate de Phoque, that's hilarious. I sent it to a bunch of friends who have kids that would do that or even worse.

I have pull my finger and love the program. Wife? Not so much.

Feb 03, 09 - 09:53 pm Comment from: Money Making

Being a software developer may take brains, to give results doesn't... necessarily.

Feb 04, 09 - 05:01 pm Comment from: HolyMackerel

If you go back to Shakespeare:

"Scratching could not make it worse… such a face as yours" Much ado about nothing

"I was searching for a fool when I found you" As you like it

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit" Twelfth night

"Out of my sight! Thou dost infect my eyes." Richard III

Oct 08, 09 - 08:00 pm Comment from: Lucus

Give please. Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Help me! Can not find sites on the: Organic detox foot pads. I found only this - hepatitis c with detox foot pads. I put up the regular health much! Calories like that roses who desperately experience these feet know detox from health way. Thank :o Lucus from Switzerland.

Oct 14, 09 - 09:05 am Comment from: Nedra

I just wanted to say, well done guys! Lovely!.
I am from Bahamas and learning to speak English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: "That was n't natural."

8-) Thanks in advance. Nedra.

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