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Software companies can easily manage and share product development through Sprint.ly

Sprint.ly

Sprint.ly

Sprint.ly is project management software that helps you to get everybody to participate in the development of a software product, even those who are not technically qualified.

With Sprint.ly, you can have a painless software development, something which is not known up till now. Software developers can now ask anybody (managers, non-engineers etc.) for advice and tips. They no longer need to work in isolation. Continue reading

AppBoy, a platform for app developers, raises $1M in seed funding

AppBoy

AppBoy

AppBoy, a platform for developers to expand, engage and understand their user base, has raised $1 million in seed funding.

The major investor was Blumberg Capital with participation from Accelerator Ventures, T5 Capital, Metamorphic Ventures and Bullpen Capital.

The funding has been used to expand their team to seven. Bill Magnuson and Jon Hyman, two new technical Continue reading

Appboy helps developers connect with users, promote and get insightful analytics

Appboy

appboy

You have made a wonderful app that you are sure users will love. But after building it, how do you get it to the users? Appboy is a resource that can help you to expand, engage and understand your user base so that your wonderful app can be appreciated and used by thousands of people.

Understanding your users is the first step of marketing and promotion. If you know what and how your targeted market works, half of the job is done. Appboy is a window into how, when and why people use your Continue reading

Turnapi: Innovative API Documentation

Turnapi

Turnapi

Turnapi is wonderful web application for developers for maintaining and managing their APIs. APIs are now commonly used by people and you have probably known how purposeful it is. With that in mind, you must have already set it up or is just planning to do it in the time to come. It is also a common knowledge that if you want to be knowledgeable about a particular developer’s documentation, you must put in order the description for your API. That being said, you have to manage your API documentation more easily and Turnapi will help you with all that without a problem. Continue reading

Fundry – Crowd Funding For Software Developement

Fundry logoFundry is a different type of crowd funding platform for software developers. It is different because here you can get fund for developing a full software project or for features only for a already developed or open source software project. Funders can contribute to get the features they want. Its a win win situation for both the developers and the funders.

In Fundry, a software developer can add a project and list features that he/she plan to develop, as well as accept or reject new feature requests from the community. Once the pledged fund is raised for a feautre, the developer develops the feature and releases to the funders community to accept the work. Funders get 7 days to accepts or reject the feature. If majority of funders accept the feature, the developer gets all the pledged amount but if a minority of funders accept the feature, the developer gets fund from only those funders that have accepted the feature. Fundry charges 5% fee on any funds you receive from funders and a PayPal fees when you withdraw the fund to your Paypal account.

Funders can load money to their Fundry account and pledge for new features or project. Funders have full control to their money and can cancel a pledge any time they want before the development is complete. This way a funder can get a new feature by paying only the fraction of the actual development cost.

Binpress – The Source Code Marketplace For Web Development

binpress-logoBinpress is a software market place for web development with the goal to offer mature and tested source code for development frameworks and application platforms. It gives an opportunity for experienced software developers to turn their source code library into another source of revenue.

Developing a good software now requires expertise on different domains. There is a need to blend many components, technologies and services together in today’s web2.0 development. Developing all the components for each projects is definitely a wastage of time and efforts. To speed up the process, web projects and ventures often look for already developed source code or library on the web. If there is an open source library available for particular needs, its really good. But if there is no open source alternative available or a better paid source code is available which can better serve the purpose and save development time, companies see more benefit on buying that piece. It lets them to work on their own domain of expertise and focus more on their unique problem domain. Binpress can be a good place for buying paid source code.

Experienced developer can publish their service freely on Binpress and it takes 30% commission on each sale made on Binpress. Binpress reviews all source code published on their platform to maintain the quality and standard of codes and provides full money-back guarantee on code purchased.

Currently, Binpress is in the process of building its software gallery, it is sending invitation to prolific developers to submit their library on the platform. Developers publishing components during this period will be given preferred conditions for a certain period of time. Once it is ready with its software library it will officially open the market for business.