Some guys have all the luck

SG Girls screenshot: Warning -- Dangerous curves ahead

It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it. Developer Ong Jun Da spends about 20 minutes each day picking out attractive Singapore women to add to his iPhone slideshow app SG Girls (iTunes link).

As a result of his tireless efforts, SG Girls (US$3.99) now has more than 2,000 pictures of attractive women. More are added each day.

How do pictures make the cut? According to Jun Da, “the pictures must be appropriate, decent and of good quality (in terms of resolution).”

Currently, he gets all the pictures from Flickr but he is looking at getting pictures from other sources as well.

The idea for SG Girls came up during a conversation over MSN Messenger with a friend last November. “Confirm top free app lor. Even top paid,” said his friend.

It is not the top paid ad yet, but it’s not doing too badly. SG Girls is currently occupying the number five slot in the photography category, which is not bad for an app costing US$3.99. (It is no. 76 on the list of top paid apps at the time of writing).

Apple took about two months to approve the app and at one point, Jun Da gave up hope of the app getting the OK from Apple. However, now that it is in the App Store, he is all fired up and has plans to improve it.

“SG Girls was developed quickly in a span of two weeks, and I admit it is raw. The icons for the app was also whipped up in an hour.

“In fact, the ‘Save image’ button was changed in 10 min when Apple rejected the app due to my use of an iPhone image in the button.”

In future, users will be able to swipe left and right to go through the slideshow. They will also be able to change the slideshow’s refresh rate.

SG Girls is the first step in Jun Da’s efforts to build his media empire. Once he’s gotten the new features out, he intends to roll out more slideshow apps along the same lines, starting with VN Girls (spotlighting Vietnamese women). If this takes off, and there is no reason to think it won’t, Jun Da will soon be doing all his development work from his beach villa in Bali.