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AppFund
- tjoozeylabs 17y agoLooking for developer? Visit my portfolio @ tjoozey.com
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoeveryone goes apeshit crazy for iphone devs and one guy offers up his portfolio and we downvote it?
- csomar 17y agookay I think it's not the right place and the right moment. Why not create a new thread for iphone developers seeking for work and iphone apps managers seeking for developers?
- allenbrunson 17y agoi'd be all for that. who wants to start it?
- maxklein 17y agoThat's pretty cool. There are some good ideas that can be implemented for the iPad, and if several iPhone devs could get together and apply together, I think this would be quite an opportunity.
- z8000 17y agoI am skeptical because none of the areas that they are concerned with seem like they will lead to innovation. Do we need another Yelp app? It seems like that's the type of thing they would (of course) love to fund (and make money off of).
- howcool 17y agomake an app that runs Windows 7
- dylanz 17y agoSomeone needs to start an Education suite of tools for the IPad. I would love to pass my kids an IPad and let them go at it.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agocan you give me an idea of some tools? im pretty passionate about this space.
- csmeder 17y agoonline tutoring - talk to a math tutor as they draw the answer on your tablet - its like etherpad but with drawing
- patio11 17y agoI think selling to parents for use in educating children is not the best idea in the world. They're generally looking for edutainment, which means you can #import all the reasons why game development sucks for a small developer (huge asset budget, quick content rot, lack of a good search marketing hook) and then add "And by the way, they will not under any circumstances pay more than $20 for this." However, there is a lot of opportunity in selling "boring" applications directly to teachers. In particular, I'd suggest addressing pain points like "Prep takes too much time." One idea I keep coming back to is "Keeping parents in the loop takes too much time" but I don't know if I'm in a good position to execute on that. I think it could potentially be a hit if done well, though. Also, homeschool folks need a whole range of curricular/admin support services and the portion of them which actually spend money have a much, much better sales cycle than school districts would want for equivalent services.
- dkasper 17y agoI guess I can understand why they don't want to fund games, but, correct me if I'm wrong, aren't they the largest grossing category in the app store?
- maxklein 17y agoGames are very competitive, appeal to only a a specific demographic, and most of the time do not have in-built virality. I don't think games are a good money maker if you're not already established there.
- kevingadd 17y agohave you ever heard of FarmVille or the Nintendo Wii? They're obvious counter-examples (among many others).
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- phil 17y agoI would guess that while games are very high grossing, gaming is pretty well understood and is unlikely to be a breakout new category of application on the iPad. For games, it's just going to be another handheld platform, maybe incrementally better than the iPhone or Nintendo DS or PSP, but not fundamentally different. On the other hand, other types of software are almost completely unexplored on the iPad, and might open up new markets. If I were investing, that's what I would be interested in.
- matthewer 17y agoDoes this feel sketchy to anyone else? This is supposed to be a multi-million dollar fund, but their website looks like that? It feels pretty unprofessional.
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoNot if you check out who is involved: http://appfund.com/who.html http://appfund.com/who.html Financial sites aren't consumer sites. You wouldn't call berkshire-hathaway sketchy, would you?
- matthewer 17y agoBerkshire-hathaway's core competency is not digital or web-based. This is not a financial site. It is a site designed to entice entrepreneurs (its version of consumers.) Berkshire-hathaway is 44 years old and a fortune 500 company. Appfund is brand new and needs to build its brand/trust.
- numair 17y agoIf you want your money to look pretty, you have it all wrong. And brands/trust are based on reputations of principals in the finance world, not on the website. Hell, I don't know why they have one in the first place...
- CytokineStorm 17y agoI agree. You would think that they would realize how important a well-designed and attractive website would be to their target audience.
- gyardley 17y agoI would be rather upset if I built a successful application, it started bringing in substantial cash, and I couldn't put that in my pocket because I'd taken some money from outside investors, who now expected me to use that cash to scale up the application to something 'venture-capital-sized'. Applicants to this sort of thing (assuming it works like a normal investment) should be fully aware of what they're getting themselves into - this sounds great for those you want to go big or go home, not so great for everybody else.
- prbuckley 17y agoI would love to know what the terms on this look like. There is no mention of how much equity they want for their investment.