Unbelievable as it might first sound, but there’s actually at least one IT start-up established in Narva – third biggest Estonian city next to Russian border. On the Estonian rapid IT development ride, Narva has clearly stayed at the back seat.

In fact, I have written stories about Narva-born hackers, but I am not sure if anything prosperous and good have come from Narva’s IT sector. 

But low and behold, an entrepreneur Roman Grigorjev (pictured)  introduced me a new start-up from Narva – Revel Mob (they don’t have a website yet), focusing on development of iPhone and Android applications.

A Golf Scorecard?!

The App Store shows that Revel Mob has done a miniature golf scorecard for example. That was released  two weeks ago.

Grigorjev grew up in Narva-Jõesuu, but has lived in London for years. He claims to be a great fan of smartphones.

“I am incredibly passionate about smartphones. I think third party applications will be the next “internet” and smartphones will be the next laptops, or even bigger industry,” he says.

App for The National Gallery

Revel Mob, he says, is still in quite early stages, so there is not much to show yet, apart from a team of eager programmers in Narva. The idea is to outsourcing for hotels, restaurants, newspapers, art galleries and other potential customers, mostly outside Estonia – in UK for example.

Grigorjev has approached to The National Gallery in London, with an idea of an iPhone app that can be used to go through collections of paintings via  mobile phone. Louvre in France has already something similar, the man has heard.  

Grigorjev is also involved with Rewel.net. The aim is to establish Pan-European discounts (e-coupons) site.

There’s another iPhone and Android developer in Tartu, Indilo Wireless. I have a post on them as well.