AppQuu lets you bookmark iPhone apps you find on the web. It puts those apps in a 'Quu' (Queue) for you to browse on your phone. @ankit and I come across a bunch of apps on our computers during the day, but never remember to check them out on our phones. [FYI: full-time, we're working on an awesome (hopefully) app recommendation project.]<p>Anyway, try out AppQuu - maybe you find it useful too.
This is actually eerily similar to a site I launched a couple of months ago called Aptly: <a href="http://apt.ly/" rel="nofollow">http://apt.ly/</a><p>I've described it to people as "Instapaper for Apps" but it seems like AppQuu may even fit that description better than Aptly. (I haven't finished the companion iPhone app yet, but feel free to try it. I'd love to hear what you think.)<p>I really like how simple and elegant AppQuu is. Being able to send the user an SMS is a great idea. It makes it feel a little magical. (Though, it's a little strange that I can't get to the list just by browsing to the site on my phone.)<p>I was definitely hesitant about putting in my phone number. That's actually why I went with email instead of phone numbers for login on Aptly. Talking with people made me realize it was a huge barrier of entry. I guess emails feel less valuable and are more commonly used for signing up with sites that you're not sure about.<p>How do you find or determine the app on the page? What happens if there are multiple apps linked on the page? Does it just add all of them? Also, what happens if someone enters a number that isn't theirs? Maybe you could send a confirmation SMS that requires the user to respond in order to verify their account.<p>Also, I'd love your feedback on Aptly since it's such a similar concept, but with a completely different execution. Well done!<p>P.s. Let me know if you have any questions. I've probably run across a few of the same ones myself. Cheers!
1. Overall, fantastic idea. I would actually use this if you had an option to sign up with email address only. I think a lot of people might be uncomfortable with putting their phone numbers online that fast without a secure connection.<p>2. Make an option to have profiles private. Networking and social plugins aside, people might want to discreetly bookmark apps they find for various reasons.<p>3. I think one of your biggest challenges at this stage is implementing this for mobile machines. There is an easy way around this, coding a browser which will have the interface plugged in already. But I don't see many iPhone users doing that just to bookmark something, it'd be downloaded and rarely used, and eventually, deleted. Your best bet is integrating that function into the app.
Not a comment specifically on your app, but I found it amazing how quickly I closed out of this when the tutorial video showed up. I hadn't really thought of this before, and it might just be me, but most tutorial videos make me want to leave your site as quickly as possible.
Very cool. Like how lightweight it is, sending me an SMS is slick.<p>Kind of wish you suggested more than just 4 apps, it'd be fun to browse a bunch and really take this for a spin.<p>Minor feedback: your "30 second video" is 55 seconds :)
This is cool... I really liked where your idea is going. This really has some good potential.. try to incorporate services to both the app owners and destination users to make either of their experiences better..
Cool idea. Simple, elegant. Do keep ur services as simple as this... the best part is, it is really useful.. In another 1-2 years when there will be a zillion apps.. this can be the saviour :)
In its current form, adding a bookmark on a mobile device or iPad is impossible. You need to find a way to let users do that. You also need to add a way that people can delete there accounts since you're asking for our phone numbers
Surprising that this isn't a feature already. I can go to <a href="https://market.android.com/" rel="nofollow">https://market.android.com/</a> and install apps straight to my phone from a browser on any machine if I'm signed in.
This is a lot like PushThePage (<a href="http://www.pushthepage.com/welcome" rel="nofollow">http://www.pushthepage.com/welcome</a>) which uses push notifications and your google account to send you any bookmark.