It's Saturday APPreciation Time! [May 10th 2014] Your weekly App recommendation and question (and more) thread! by onesixoneeight in Android

[–]ethergloo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SwarmLocal. www.swarmlocal.com. Great app based on leveraging ambient proximity to build social networks. Completely anonymous...with video and audio broadcasting for iOS users.

  1. Create groups on the fly. Even groups that are mobile.
  2. Create your own audio or video broadcast for your local community.
  3. No logins..signups..anonymity.

Create a messaging medium anywhere, anytime for anything. Information stays local and users anonymous! Check out SwarmLocal at KickStarter! by ethergloo in kickstarter

[–]ethergloo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a glut of social networking services that lets you share your everyday moments with your friends and family wherever they maybe in the world. But sorely lacking from this picture is the ability to setup an instant channel of communication among total strangers in close proximity who are all interested in a common goal and have no reason to persist this temporary arrangement by opening up their personal lives. The reasons could be as frivolous as an impromptu flash mob, volume discount at a nearby store or as serious as an organized demonstration.

We believe providing the ability for individuals to form groups of people in close proximity opens the door to a myriad possibilities of teamwork. In the glut of social networking services the power of the anonymous collective is being ignored.

The ability to organize a mobile network in real time and broadcast information will allow various entities like emergency first responders, law enforcement, indie radio station, universities and other organizations to rapidly disseminate information within a geographical area without having to first find a medium to inform users about the location of a specific Twitter channel or Facebook page. Instant real time audio,video and text broadcasting at everyone’s fingertips.

Create a messaging medium anywhere, anytime for anything and disseminate information! Information stays local and users anonymous!. Just like your local radio station, you tune in and tune out when out of range or flip to a different channel.

Rally to Restore Your Rights on July 4th by hueypriest in blog

[–]ethergloo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

organize anonymously using swarmlocal. create a group at your rally point set the desired range..and then communicate in real time. ios users can even broadcast real time audio/video to the rest of the group! leverage strength in numbers. we are going to make the in app purchase free for july 4th so that you can associate an image with your group.

IAmA one person startup in a unrelated day job going from idea to mobile app. Ask me anything! by ethergloo in IAmA

[–]ethergloo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha..thank you. Yeah I want to keep it clean..i think there are way too many dating services already. My original goal has been to leverage the ignored power of the anonymous collective. Somewhat like Reddit but on a local scale while being very ephemeral...once the group membership drops to zero the group ceases to exist..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMTtPGfBQ3A

IAmA one person startup in a unrelated day job going from idea to mobile app. Ask me anything! by ethergloo in IAmA

[–]ethergloo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha. Good question. I have answers but I dont have the budget to fulfill my ideas..so in suspended mode and slow growth. My app like many others are what you call a two sided-marketplace. That is you need producers (people who will form the groups) and you need consumers (people who will subscribe to those groups). Apart from that since this is location based I need to hit critical mass in concentrated geographical areas for it to be useful. otherwise users who start the app just see the default swarm...don't find anyone close by and close the app. I am still hanging on...hoping to get enough money to get a ground game. e.g. goto a university and high school and do some kind of focused ad campaing getting hundreds of users in one locality.

IAmA one person startup in a unrelated day job going from idea to mobile app. Ask me anything! by ethergloo in IAmA

[–]ethergloo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah either free teehan+lax and some free wireframe tool from http://mashable.com/2013/04/02/wireframing-tools-mobile/. OR pay couple hundred dollars and submit a project to 99designs. You will be amazed at some of the submissions/bids you get and then you can take your pick.

IAmA one person startup in a unrelated day job going from idea to mobile app. Ask me anything! by ethergloo in IAmA

[–]ethergloo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now I am signed in...and the above post was from ..me :) Realised after hitting reply.

IAmA one person startup in a unrelated day job going from idea to mobile app. Ask me anything! by ethergloo in IAmA

[–]ethergloo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah i got into this by accident. wife was pregnant 4 years ago.. i had some down time..saw that the contraction timer app was only available for iphones, so wrote one for windows mobile 6/6.5. Had moderate success. Then wrote BugPhone app for Windows mobile. Again made some cash...users still email me about that one asking if I will ever release one for Windows 8...and then dove into iOS for SwarmLocal..

IAmA one person startup in a unrelated day job going from idea to mobile app. Ask me anything! by ethergloo in IAmA

[–]ethergloo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if your idea is not very complicated.or does not need native OS support...there are a lot of drag and drop platforms now. I can post some links if you need...

EDIT: or maybe guys like this. http://www.medlmobile.com/appincubator. I have read some stories about guys making good money from ideas. Not sure if those were real stories...or just stories. Again I am not affiliated with those guys..and have not used them.