The Best of NY Tech Day
Quick Summary More than 200 New York-based startups come out today to show off their wares. The offerings are a bit uneven, but CNET is on the job to call out the best of the best. “Yapp is a mobile…
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Save paper with your own wedding app!
Quick Summary “In this world full of iPhones and Androids (along with those apps that we don’t know how we survived without) how cool would it be use a mobile app to keep your wedding guests connected? Yapps are now…
BetaBeat: Yapp Founder and CEO Maria Seidman On Raising a Seed Round and Launching While Pregnant
Quick Summary Earlier this week, Yapp, the New York City-based startup that helps regular folks create customizable mobile apps, announced a round of funding from Kleiner Perkins, North Bridge Venture Partners, Cue Ball, and other individual investors. Yapp, which was “proudly made in…
Appsplit: Yapp is An App for your Events
Quick Summary “Yapp is built particularly to provide a simple solution to a problem rather than a complex open source platform for app building.” Read more here.
HuffPost Weddings: ‘Yapp’ Helps Couples Create Apps For Their Big Days
Quick Summary You might think a wedding website is the easiest way to share information with your guests. But what if you could build a mobile app that guests could access anytime, anywhere? According to Maria Seidman, co-founder of Yapp, a New…
TechCrunch: Yapp Raises Funding From Kleiner Perkins To Allow Anyone To Create Mobile Apps For Events
Quick Summary Maria Seidman helps organize a monthly womens’ networking event for her business school alums in New York City but was frustrated with some of the options for creating a dedicated mobile app for an event. So she decided…
Mashable: Planning an Event? Yapp Makes an App in Minutes
Quick Summary “Conferences, weddings and parties often have their own websites, but the founders of a new app builder called Yapp want to replace those online pages with mobile apps.” Read more here.
What is Yapp’s App Builder Actually For?
Quick Summary It does beg the question then as to why the app builder has been developed at all. There is an insight from Yapp co-founder Maria Seidman that this could be very similar to what happened in web design…
Business Insider: Yapp Is A Dead Simple Way To Make A Mobile App Without Writing A Line Of Code
Quick Summary “Last month Yapp demoed at New York Tech Meetup. Today it’s announcing a round of financing from Kleiner Perkins, North Bridge Ventures Partners, Cue Ball, and angel investors.” Read more here.
Private Beta
Quick Summary Today, we opened our first product, Yapp Events, to users in a private beta. Yapp Events allows anyone to create a mobile application for their wedding, conference, book club, reunion, team, club, and…(well, that is what we are…
How mobile should you be?
Quick Summary Today’s “service announcement” by Google that businesses need mobile websites brought me back to 1996. Agencies were telling and selling companies they needed a web presence and the first self service platform, Geocities, launched. It was the dawn…