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My startup, AppStoreHQ (http://www.appstorehq.com http://www.appstorehq.com), has been private alpha testing a mobile web app (HTML5) app store for the past cou

by iseff 16y ago

My startup, AppStoreHQ (http://www.appstorehq.com http://www.appstorehq.com), has been private alpha testing a mobile web app (HTML5) app store for the past couple months. It's been working out great and having Google come in for standard web apps should be a big wind in our sail, I think. Our mobile web app store focuses on distribution and monetization of developers' work. Here's an example app (it's an HTML5 frontend to foursquare) called fortysquires: http://www.fortysquires.com http://www.fortysquires.com And it's purchasable from AppStoreHQ: http://www.appstorehq.com/fortysquires-mobilewebfoursquareclient-html5web-196344/app http://www.appstorehq.com/fortysquires-mobilewebfoursquarecl... It's also open source (so you can see how simple the API to interact with us is): http://github.com/iseff/fortysquires http://github.com/iseff/fortysquires

csmeder 16y ago
"having Google come in for standard web apps should be a big wind in our sail, I think." I'm not sure I understand, Isn't google now a direct competitor. They are now competing with you, recurly, autorize.net and every other billing company. Everyone will now use google checkout to pay monthly fees and their Gmail user name to sign into web apps?
- iseff 16y ago
  A couple quick thoughts pop in to my mind: 1) A rising tide lifts all boats. I suspect this isn't a zero-sum game. 2) Chrome Web Store appears to be more geared towards desktop web apps. We're solely focused on mobile web apps. This is a key differentiator as the use case, experience, and expectations are all different. But Google pushing web apps as a legit form of apps will help us as we push mobile web apps as a legit form of mobile apps.
  - jasonlotito 16y ago
    Valve isn't the only place you can buy games online. iTunes isn't the only music vendor. They might be the biggest and most popular, but they aren't alone. =)
    - jasonlbaptiste 16y ago
      I'm stealing this quote :) well said. Also look at getjar

by iseff 16y ago

csmeder 16y ago

"having Google come in for standard web apps should be a big wind in our sail, I think." I'm not sure I understand, Isn't google now a direct competitor. They are now competing with you, recurly, autorize.net and every other billing company. Everyone will now use google checkout to pay monthly fees and their Gmail user name to sign into web apps?

iseff 16y ago
A couple quick thoughts pop in to my mind: 1) A rising tide lifts all boats. I suspect this isn't a zero-sum game. 2) Chrome Web Store appears to be more geared towards desktop web apps. We're solely focused on mobile web apps. This is a key differentiator as the use case, experience, and expectations are all different. But Google pushing web apps as a legit form of apps will help us as we push mobile web apps as a legit form of mobile apps.
- jasonlotito 16y ago
  Valve isn't the only place you can buy games online. iTunes isn't the only music vendor. They might be the biggest and most popular, but they aren't alone. =)
  - jasonlbaptiste 16y ago
    I'm stealing this quote :) well said. Also look at getjar