Mobile Roadie – Off the Shelf iPhone Apps for Musicians and Mosques
The iPhone app store now hosts 100,000 apps from producers other than apple, with 2 billion(!) downloads across the board. Having your own promotional application plugs you into your customers in a convenient and content rich way, whether those people are Taxicab customers, restaurant patrons, music fans or members of a religious organisation (they have a special category for ‘Places of Worship’). For the smaller operator that doesn’t have their own in-house programmer, the tricky thing is hunting down a developer who will build your product quickly and cheaply. Mobile Roadie offers a sub $2K alternative to pitching on Odesk and hoping you get a good product. Their standard product can be filled with your own content, including music, pictures, videos, news feeds, event lists, forums, twitter feeds and more, and can push user-submitted data to facebook and twitter accounts.
Their standard model is a little inflexible, but for an extra $500 they’ll design you a custom skin, and you can add things like push notification (messages that will pop up on screen for a group targeted by e.g. location, age, gender) for additional fees. A relatively cheap and simple way to get a functional tool up on the app store, just watch the costs. You might even end up making some money out of your app. depending on how you want to serve it – Mobile Roadie are keen to impress on you just how powerful a platform the iPhone is… I wonder how many Apple shares the dev. team has?
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Hi,
Thanks for the post, wanted to clarify a few things:
1. Our basic package is flexible in the following ways: you decide the order of sections, you can rename sections, and you have 10 different color themes to choose from. You also decide which sections you want – if you don’t want/need a section, just don’t put any content in it.
2. Our custom theme is $1,500 not $500. This buys a designer’s time to custom design your app’s color theme if one of the 10 built in themes don’t work for you.
3. Push notifications are $200 one time setup and allow you to geo target push messages to anyone who has your app installed – whether they are in the app or not.
Our pricing information is detailed here: http://www.mobileroadie.com/home/pricing/musicians/
Michael