Quick Pitch: Social network for mobile app developers and users. Personal appstore. Add, share, comment, vote, socialize, submit app ideas, and get discovered.
Genius Idea: Appboy bills itself as a social network for mobile app developers and users. It lists apps for various mobile platforms (iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm Pre) and users can comment and rate apps and create their own custom app stores. Developer can add their own apps to the store for additional promotion and users can submit ideas for future applications.
Users can create their own custom app stores that contain apps they like and earn a 5% commission based on app sales that originate from their stores.
For developers, Appboy offers another avenue of promoting your product and gaining more attention.
The app-idea feature is pretty intriguing. The idea is that users submit app ideas and the community votes on what ideas it likes. The best ideas will be made into actual apps (though it isn't clear who will take on the development task or how that task will be funded) and will win $250. It's sort of like Threadless for mobile apps.
Having another avenue to find and rate mobile applications is always helpful -- especially as app stores become larger and harder to navigate. Appboy's focus on multiple platforms and the way it tries to encourage interaction from both users and developers shows the promise of a cool mobile app community.
Where do you go to find out about the latest mobile apps? What do you think of the concept of custom app stores? Let us know!
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