Comments on: Zwapp builds a social network for app discovery

By: mark

mark — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:26:56 +0000

MoboSquare is a soc net for app discovery that has been around for six months or so (on Android, I’m not sure about iPhone)

By: vanelsas

vanelsas — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:11:18 +0000

Hi Jaime, thanks for your comment. We’re doing our best to make the service as social and simple as possible. We are already working on extra’s that will provide more value tot he user. So far the user community seems to use Zwapp regularly and seems to be very eager to share their favorite apps with their friends. By making that as simple as possible we feel that it becomes easier to use the service. That is why we invest in things like automatic app detection. It talkes all burden away from you to build up an initial app profile and gets you set up really fast.

By: Jaime Cheng

Jaime Cheng — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:34:14 +0000

Great idea and seemingly well developed, because a lot of app popularity is accredited to word of mouth. This is just another medium for an app to become viral, but one problem I can think of is just how interactive people will be with their apps. These programs are very come-and-go. People want to keep up on Twitter and Facebook because of the interesting content that will pop up. This app is kind of like people “Tweeting” solely about other apps, and I’m just not sure how interesting that will be for other people. Another thing is that people have a hard enough time writing app reviews as it is- I know that whenever a request to write reviews for even some of my favorite apps, I’m not afraid of pressing “skip”, or “later”.