Hello everybody, I'm Fronz, the CEO of Spur. We JUST released the app to the public last night, and the feedback has been wild. We crashed the servers within 60 seconds of launch and we are now crawling our way up the top charts. Right now we are at the #59 spot, and we are the #1 trending search on the entire app store.
Anyways, Spur is a very simple mobile photo-sharing app based off a system of upvotes (much like PH, Reddit, or Yik Yak). I set out to create a unique photo sharing app when me and my partner Anthony realized there were NO upvote based photo sharing apps.... We immediately got to work because we felt this was a niche that had to be filled. It's proven to be extremely popular so far. Our main problem right now is the bugs we are encountering from the servers being overloaded. We are hoping to raise a first round of investment to help cover the costs of the servers we need to handle the amount of traffic we're getting.
Thanks,
Fronz
@fronz1lla Thanks for being here! Spur looks interesting and I am downloading it now.
Out of curiosity, how did you achieve the #1 trending search spot? Are there tactics you used to climb the trending search list? From outward appearance it seems quite random (an app called "aa" is appearing on my list now...). I would really appreciate some insight into this new app discovery mechanism in the App Store.
@stagename - Originally planned on making overall 8.0 minimum requirement because we use some iOS 8 API's. I figured a good amount of people probably had 8.1, but thinking about downgrading the requirement back to 8.0 or even 7.0+ after some feedback.
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