Quit Building Mobile Apps NOW! | StartupMuse. …unless they include these three things: 1. an inherent mechanism for user growth 2. an inherent mechanism for user retention 3. measurement and analytics So often I meet promising young entrepreneurs who are building equally promising mobile applications that are missing all three components. User Growth: There are scores of mobile applications on the market that are well designed and very useful – the problem is that you’ll never hear about them. You should consider designing your app in a way that it becomes more useful when your user gets his friends to use the app as well.
My advice to mobile developers is simple: do not start building your application UNTIL you have a well thought out mechanism specifically designed to drive user growth. User Retention: Getting users is actually EASIER than keep users engaged in your app. Measurement: Don’t just focus on ‘Vanity Metrics’ like downloads, total sessions, total first time users – instead focus on REAL Discovery Analytics.
Barcode Yourself by Scott Blake. Barcode Yourself is a complete, interactive experience in the series of barcode art, created using the personalized data of participants. Enter an individual's gender, weight, height, age and location, and the barcode is formed using real-world data. The individualized barcode can then be printed, mapped, scanned, even depicted on a t-shirt or coffee mug.
Uber-geeks can even test out their barcodes on their next grocery run. It is in scanning a barcode that the project reveals its humor, like a banner that reads: Disclaimer! Human beings are not merely worth somewhere between one cent and 10 dollars. It is here, within the confines of an American obsession with "worth," in which the fun begins. The data entered into Barcode Yourself takes a topsy-turvy twist to its personalized end numbers, with the exception of the hard-data that correlates with "location," which tallies up in the Gross Domestic Product of each country. More info in FAQ. - StumbleUpon. Explore more. Web pages, photos, and videos | StumbleUpon.com. Funny/Just Plain Awesome. The First Few Minutes After Death.