Startup Founders Looking to AgTech as next Frontier
KisanHub is a startup with a simple mission: using tech to help farmers grow more crops more efficiently, while using less land. While iPad app developers might not immediately think of agriculture and farming when they think of unicorn-level startup opportunities, venture capitalists beg to differ — KisanHub just closed a $1 million seed funding […]
On-demand Service Startups Start Targeting the Suburbs
Food delivery startup Farm Hill announced their intention to expand into San Francisco last week, which doesn’t sound like hot news until you look at the context — specifically, the expansion “into” rather than “out of” a city. Farm Hill is backed by high-profile VCs like SOMA Capital and associated with Standford’s accelerator StartX. Regardless, rather […]
Uber Rushes to Claim the “Uber for X” Startup Market
Uber just made UberRush available publicly to mobile app developers, allowing anyone to build on-demand services on top of Uber’s existing driver and delivery network. The result? A much shorter runway for small startups looking to become “Uber for X.” Rather than sourcing and maintaining their own fleet of drivers or delivery people, developers can pay […]
Uber Trying to Win Back Their Most Valued Resource: Drivers
Uber, like any sharing-economy mobile app developer, has two main resources: workers and customers. This may sound simplistic, but it’s actually a tricky and unique balance in the on-demand startup industry, compared with worker and consumer relations in more traditional companies. When a mobile app becomes the interface between employer and employee, efficiency increases — […]
Value & Monetization: A Tricky Balance for App Developers
It goes without saying that when it comes to providing a service, more value equals more money. It’s an equation that has held true since the very first financial transaction — that is, until the mobile economy began turning everything on its head. These days, iPhone and Android app developers find themselves in a much […]
3 Rules for Success with On-demand & Sharing Economy Apps
On-demand and “sharing economy” services are some of the hottest trends in the startup world this year, with companies all over the US scrambling to become the next Uber or Postmates. Naturally, competition is getting stiff as the scene gets more crowded — leaving many a failed on-demand iPhone app developer wondering what they could […]
Kuddly Raises 1.5 Million to Expand Pet Healthcare App
Healthcare app developers have been hitting the prime time the past couple years, with house-call apps for doctors revolutionizing elder access to medical assistance in many urban areas. Meanwhile, health-monitoring apps for wearable devices have exploded in popularity, bringing preventative medicine to the lives of millions of users — safely, effectively, and affordably. But as […]
Airbnb Launches Host Mentor Program and Host Tools
With Proposition F left in the dust, Airbnb has launched an all-fronts engagement campaign with the public face of their company: the Airbnb hosts who open their homes to travelers and make the company possible. The company is putting its worldwide offices to work, with their London mobile app developers and San Francisco operations team […]
Rumblr is Fight Club for the Mobile App Era
Fight Club fans may finally have their chance to live out their dreams of street-combat anarchy. Rumblr, the humorously-named new app that’s trying to give users a Tinder-esque platform for engaging in casual fisticuffs, has a long waiting list of users looking to use the mobile app developers’ creation to unleash some steam. Mortal combat-style. “Bro, […]
Flywheel Aims to Replace Taxi Meters With TaxiOS Platform
While all the buzz in transportation apps and the sharing economy focus on big-picture services like Uber, the mobile app developers at startup Flywheel have quietly launched a smart new platform targeting a more humble issue: the old-school taxi meter. According to company sources over 80 percent of San Francisco taxis are already working with […]