Today we are making public the marketing platform that enabled us to spend over $50,000 to market our apps in a dozen different ways, and you can use it for free. It’s called Tapstream and it easily lets you measure conversion rates from the open web to your iOS or Android app. Use a Tapstream [...]
What a month it’s been here at Paperlabs. We thought we were organized, planned out and prepared for any eventuality – boy were we wrong. It all started months ago when we drew up the idea for our first iPhone product. We already had a beautiful iPad app called Tapfolio behind us, but we knew [...]
As we started testing the new iPad for our next Tapfolio update (already under way) I was pleasantly surprised that the new screen is not just sharper but also has greater brightness range. While it gets just as bright as iPad 2 at its brightest setting, it dims a lot more at the lowest setting. [...]
We attended LAUNCH conference last week in the sunny San Francisco, a very welcome respite from grey Vancouver. We met some great people and saw some really cool business ideas, but you probably heard very little as the press has generally been silent about the event. TechCrunch seems busy covering the 30 or so CrunchFund [...]
Premium ad networks sell the idea of ‘cost per influence’ – that buying space on their network gives you access to influencers who may otherwise not see your work. We launched our first iOS app this November. Being new to this space we had a problem: although our stock market app Tapfolio was designed by some [...]
This is the list of features in the upcoming Mac OS Lion that are directly inspired by Apple’s success with iOS, specifically with iPad as a computing appliance: Launchpad Lion’s new app launcher behaves like iOS springboard, showing you all your apps in a full-screen layout. It is a very familiar implementation to iOS users, [...]
There’s a trend of designers using iOS-esque UI elements in web apps, even when being accessed from a desktop browser. (See: Recurly, Mocha – two apps that I really like, by the way!) If you’ve been making interfaces or landing pages for a while, you might remember past trends in consumer apps that were driven [...]
Google’s official App Engine documentation gives a very complete webapp Task Queue example. But if you’re rolling django-nonrel (like Framee), you might have a hard time finding a good example. Here is the little test-case I made while I was learning. To set up a skeleton task queue that you can play with, make two [...]
When you’re working on your local version of your Google App Engine app, you might see an error that looks like this: AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘ROOT_URLCONF’ Chances are, you just finished monkeying around in your local App Engine Development Console. Stopping and starting the app from the Google App Engine Launcher resolves [...]
Just a quick one here that would have saved me some time – if you’re using Google App Engine’s local development environment, and you use something like: f = urllib2.urlopen(serving_url) …you’re liable to get an error that looks something like this: Download Error at (your URL) ApplicationError: 2 timed out This error occurs because the [...]
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