None of us knew how it would feel to become a "software giant"! It happened, and every Joe with half a mouse became an app maker and app seller thanks to App.Cat. It's a fantastic product ma...
None of us knew how it would feel to become a "software giant"! It happened, and every Joe with half a mouse became an app maker and app seller thanks to App.Cat. It's a fantastic product made for entrepreneurs like magicians and event organizers that need an app quick but it got discovered by the wrong kind of self promoter and boy, do we just want to take a long hot shower...
We made the first App.Cat in a hackathon over a week. On your iPhone you'd email back and forth with a "real" cat who would ask you some questions, then get your finished app from Kitty (watch the hilarious
video here). You could then share your app any way you wanted to promote your art or gig. All via email, SMS, and fully automated.
Between the fantastic press coverage, the instant me-too competitors targeting sleazy luddites (self-promoters of the "get rich quick"-kind who then bought from us for all the wrong reasons), and cutting off the App Store pirates who ate up all our cloud storage we found ourselves in Internet hell.
For 3 years we idiot-proofed App.Cat thinking the vicious online attacks would subside only to find out that it was the competition and a gripe-site extorsionist (a nasty Spaniard whom we didn't pay ransom money) that posed as customers with slanderous fake reviews and reports about App.Cat. A nightmare -as any small business listed on Yelp knows- because slanderous reviews are protected under the not-so-aptly-named Communications Decency Act and drive lots of web traffic (think ad clicks) to unethical hosts with no intention to side with honest folks...
In 2013 we handed App.Cat to a company who is better equipped in dealing with high-volume software sales (and the headaches that come with it) so we could regroup and do what we love: Invent cool and wacky stuff.
Long story short you can now purchase a perfect product with a crappy reputation... Thanks, Internet!
