Between the work on our upcoming app and delicious Brooklyn Beer, I’ve put together a new design for our website. It still has some rough edges and will be optimized as time allows. First things first, and right now that’s the new app. Looking forward to tell everybody more about it soon!

Here’s the story of the rain:
Two guys set out to create a new, small movie theater application.
There are not many around, certainly no decent ones. Unfortunately, developing that application turned out to take more time than they thought and they ended up with more competition than they thought.
It’s not like the other applications are all better, they are usually just cheaper – actually free.
So the server costs are high, the revenue is low, the motivation to push further is even lower, considering that it wasn’t meant to be this one flag ship app, rather something that should provide us some insight into what we’d have to expect.

In order to win, you also have to know when you lost. And this time we sort of lost. We won a lot of experiences and we certainly learned a lot. However, it didn’t pay so far.
Besides that, we are still working on our yet-to-be flagship application. And this time we actually set out to do something big. Expect us!

So, as of today, we declare Showtime as dead. Actually, we took it out of the store a few months ago and watched the traffic decrease to a level that we could agree on letting it finally rest in peace.
It’s been a fun ride, and we are both still very proud of what we achieved, but it’s time to say good bye.

Congratulations, we wish a lot of fun!

Meanwhile keep following us on Twitter, Facebook, Email or RSS and be among the first to know when we launch another contest.

With our new app Showtime (App Store link) it’s way easier than ever before to find a good movie and the perfect place to watch it. And there are new, great movies playing in the cinema, like Toy Story 3, Knight and Day.. etc. but it’s kind of expensive these days.

We have a fine offer here for you! We would like to invite you and someone you like to the movie theatre, including coke/beer and popcorn. What we would like you to do, is a bit tricky. It’s unlike anything you have ever seen before… We would like you to help us.

To be honest, it’s actually pretty simple. You do anything to help us spread the word and you’ll get a chance to win 2  tickets to a movie of your choice, 2 x beer/coke and 2 x big popcorn portions. (And if you like, we would of course join you!)

Here is how: retweet this or/and like our facebook page & status or/and write a blog post (send a trackback or leave a comment here) or even a giant showtime graffiti on the swiss federal building and download one of our apps (optional but awesome, 3 of them are free).

This contest ends on August 17th, 00:00 GMT. And the winner will be notified shortly after that.

We have some plans for the future of Showtime (as in new features) which will first come to the pro-version, but we’ll talk about that another day..
For now: enjoy the free Showtime version and leave a review, if you like it. (If not, send us even more feedback!)

And to our Swiss friends: It’s the perfect weather for an Open Air Cinema evening..

Check out http://partiql.com/showtime for more information.