The App Guy Archive 2: Episodes 101 to 200 of The App Guy Podcast interviews with Paul Kemp - The App Guy

A special episode where I make some announcements about the future of your show

Today I speak with Ragi Burhum, co-founder and CEO of Amigocloud, entrepreneur & Geospatial Software Architect. Based in San Francisco, AmigoCloud creates next generation mobile enterprise mapping software. As an app developer, just imagine building an app that can send restaurant inspection reports to users nearby or notifications to tell you how many people on are on the buses at a specific times of the day. Ragi's built Amigocloud which enables these type of apps to be built. AWESOME!

Today I chat with Alan Mitchell who created his app called CORE whilst working as a lawyer, He talks to us about the impact of old media PR (getting an ad in an inflight magazine) versus new style media (blog mentione).

Today I speak with Kris Jones, co-founder of the Frnchgirls App. Kris is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and internet CEO . He is also a best-selling author, Founder of digital media start-up ReferLocal.com, and serves as Chairman of Internet Marketing Ninjas. In this episode, you'll learn about the next potential $1bn app idea.

Today I speak with Neil Wilkins, Founder and Managing Director of Viper Marketing a marketing and communications company based in Bristol, UK with offices in Egypt and Dubai. Neil's can help app developers to create the business today and set the strategy for tomorrow.

Ed is a game developer who has a portfolio of seven apps. All these apps, including his latest Hungry Hal, have been side projects whilst he works full-time. Listen to his passionate and authentic story of working a whole year on Hungry Hal only to immediately fail during the initial launch on the app store. Ed helps us understand what its like to work on creative projects whilst giving up a whole bunch of passive hobbies such as passively playing games or watching TV.

Today I speak with Guk Kim, Founder and CEO of Cibando! Guk Kim has always been an entrepreneur. Guk is working on his third startup called Cibando. It's an app that helped him solve a very fundamental problem; where to get food thats nearby.

Today I speak with Sean Casto, founder and CEO of PreApps.com, the leading platform introducing new mobile applications to users and the marketplace prior to release. Sean's passion is to serve the large app developer community. He does this with PreApps by helping app developers with app launches, app demo videos, app press releases and attracting beta testers.

Today I speak with Honoree Corder, CEO, Honoree Enterprises & Honoree Enterprises Publishing, author of a dozen books, including Vision to Reality: How Short Term Massive Action Equals, speaker, educator and media veteran. What has she got to do with Apps? Well, she can help us with an obvious path forward with our app journeys, but almost always overlooked. She reveals all in this episode.

Today I speak with Alexander Kurilin, co-founder of Front Row Education, Software Development Engineer Entrepeneur

Today I speak with Rick Singer, CEO of GreatApps.com & AppGames.com . Rick walks us through the big challenge of App discovery. This is especially important now that 3000+ daily apps are being released on numerous platforms (iOS, Android, Windows, etc). Rick has some hard truths for us which could just save us time and money when launching an app

Today I speak with Mark Skwarek, an artist working to bridge the gap between virtual and physical world with augmented reality. His art explores the translation our everyday digital experience into the physical world using mobile augmented reality.

Today I speak with Paul Myers, a British author and businessman and was formerly a record producer. He was the CEO and founder of pioneering online music store Wippit. Myers now heads application developer Bappz and independent podcast production company Playback Media. This episode generates the funniest quote out of all of my previous 187 episodes. "I Love App Developers, But They Are Like....." you'll have to listen to find out.

Today I speak with Dhanush Balachandran, the founder and CEO at Sortly. Sortly is a productivity app that helps you organize all your things by creating a visual inventory that you can easily search, manage, and categorize.

Today I speak with Bil Bryant, the CEO of PowerFX and creator of Soundnation.com, the leading online music making application. Bill talks about the future of social collaborative music making and his music project with Google Hangouts

Today's guest and founder / CEO of Shortcut Labs. Joacim is very fond of Shortcuts. In the pursuit of his passion, he's created an awesome shortcut button. Press it once and it'll perform a shortcut on your smartphone. For example, share your location or order a pizza. We discuss how to take an idea from just that to a funded company.

Jen Clarke, a Digital Strategist who has one primary goal. She wants to live a creative life, doing meaningful work. In 40 years, Jen wants to look back on a life well-lived, knowing that she was part of creating impactful, results-driven experiences.

Today I speak with Alper Cakir, the co-founder and creative director at Fake Crow. He has played over 500 concerts across Europe and sold over 1.5 million albums in Turkey (producer). He now runs a creative agency.

Today I speak with Dennis Collet, the co-founder of Orderella App. The Orderella app lets you order and pay for your pint without visiting the bar. Orderella allows customers to order and pay for their food and drinks When the order is ready, it can be brought to their table or customers receive a message to collect their next round. People can pay through the app so they don't have to wait for the bill.

Today I speak with Matt Moody, the co-founder of Locals.io. Locals is a federated network of community-based social news and information applications.Each Locals site is dedicated to a specific community, typically town/city-based.

Today I speak with Mattew Blakemore, the co-founder of LooksGoodOnMe. Looks Good On Me is a fantastic new App that can transform your closest friends into an intimate circle of fashion advisors you can access at the touch of a button! ‘Looks Good On Me' are on a mission to make the whole clothes shopping experience far less stressful and more enjoyable - from start to finish! They want to make the fashion faux pas a thing of the past. Tatjana Apukhtina On The App Guy Podcast Their app will transform your friends into your own intimate circle of fashion advisors that you can call on at anytime to help you during the shopping decision process. It'll be like having a personal stylist in your pocket.If you are wondering what to do when you leave full time education, this is a great episode to get a taste for starting your own app tech business

Today I speak with Anthony Collica, the CEO and founder of Empowering Moment Fitness Inc. He has been involved in the fitness community since 2006, He's had an app idea, a fitness trainer in your pocket, and he goes through his own journey trying to turn this app into a reality. Learn about the potential struggles you'll face when taking massive action on an app idea.

Today I speak with Dax Castro, the founder of a LDS home teaching app. He designed this app to help eliminate excuses, and make home and visit teaching more effective.

Today I speak with James Malinchak, one the most requested motivational speaker in America! For the last 12 years he has been traveling around the world doing motivational speech, helping people achieve their goals, and trying to make a difference in everyone's life. His motivational speech is featured in ABC's show "Secret Millionaire". James reveals the most uplifting question I've ever heard which you can ask yourself as an app entrepreneur. “Is What About About To Do…..” (you'll have to listen to find out).

Today I speak with Samuel Fine, creator of the Newbee app. Newbee is based on a foundation of logging and tracking events that occur on a daily basis in your infant's life, like eating, sleeping, diaper changes, play time, trips, and more. Samuel also talks through his recent experience being on national TV and the impact such huge exposure had to pledges on Kickstarter.

Today I speak with Donnie Gallagher, entrepreneur and co-creator of the Brewamasters app. Their new mobile app project called Brewmasters.Club will help users choose the right food to go with the beer they ordered or the right beer to go with the food they are cooking.

In this episode I chat with Mari Johannessen the co-founder of Authenpic. Learn how you can still create a successful app despite missing your funding target on Kickstarter. It's an inspiration to hear the dedication of an aspiring entrepreneur.

Today I speak with Glen Cooper, founder of Happijar.com. HappiJar is a phone app which has been designed to make us all feel happier! Daily or weekly, you record the little things that make you smile and feel grateful for onto beautifully designed buttons within the app. You can do this using text, photos and voice messages. These HappiButtons are then posted into your very own HappiJar, saved away for you to randomly encounter them at a later date - perhaps when you need something extra to inspire you to have a great day.

Today I speak with Tony Stubblebine, the CEO and co-founder of Lift, a company working on boosting human potential. This is a momentous episode for me. Why? Well, Lift is my favourite app. It's been the driver to changing my life in a positive way. It's done this by simply motivating me to adopt really good habits. I've now achieved over 100 checkins waking up at 5am, going for an early morning walk and living on a low-carb diet.

Today I speak with Courtenay Escoffery, the founder of Tomo. Tomo is a way of saving communally with your core network of close friends and family. The basic principles behind saving money with Tomo are accountability and encouragement. Users create a savings instance called a “Partner” with a monetary goal in mind and then invite their close friends and/or family to contribute. Each user gets to withdraw the entire amount of communal funds from the pot based on his or her turn in line until everyone has had a turn, thereby saving the set amount of money agreed upon.

Today I speak with Charles Michael Yim, the founder and CEO of Breathometer, The World's First Smartphone Breathalyzer, also previously seen on ABC's hit show Shark Tank. He is a serial and visionary entrepreneur from Silicon Valley passionate about inventing and building innovative products. He has also founded Chatterfly, is the Managing Director of My Ventures, serves on the Board of Directors for FADD and Advisory Board of Survcast and K Hotels. He was also nominated for Forbes' top 30under30 under Technology and a Champion of Change for Crowd-funding Entrepreneurs at the White House in 2013.

Today I speak with Aaron Michel, co-founder and CEO of PathSource, a company that develops career navigation and education solution technology. Aaron walks us through how he's trying to solve the problem of what we really want to do in life by helping us get onto the right path.

Today I speak with Mike Davis, CEO of StoryPress: Human History told through Personal Stories, previously on Kickstarter. He left his steady job to go it alone working as an entrepreneur and startup founder. Michael reminds us about the importance of creating a prototype for our app idea; especially if we're seeking funding.

Today I speak with David Marsden, creator of Project: Uddevalla. This effort is giving new life to the Swedish city centre Uddevalla's. A project, previously on Kickstarter, is an effort to give back to the Swedish city that helped David start his business. He is currently a self employed digital consultant in entertainment and information technology. An important episode to listen to if you're struggling with atypical autism.

Today I speak with Adele Kirby, the creator of Apocalypse Survival Training: an audio fitness adventure app now on Kickstarter. This received the staff pick and was also featured on popular news sources such as The Guardian and CNET. Adele is an inspirational fitness instructor who has spent five years with personal training, bootcamps, and group exercise. She continues to motivate people to good health through her work, and her new startup Imaginactive, that created their first series of audio fitness adventures. You'll learn the importance of building an online community around your idea.

Today I speak with Fabien Dodard founder of Dodard Interactive. He tells us his experience running a successful kickstarter campaign for an app called Know Your Numbers. He managed to get this fully funded so teaches us the lessons he learnt along the way.

Today I speak with Christophe de Courson, the CEO of PeeeM, a mobile App that let's you share any type of file of any size over the internet. Peeem app is the perfect example of how you launch a successful app whilst keeping costs low. Just two founders who acheived 1m downloads in 50 days.

Today I speak with Trevor Cornwell, the founder and CEO of appbackr inc, an API and data service that indexes the app world and provides distribution for the best new apps to platforms and stores. A veteran entrepreneur, Cornwell has founded multiple innovative companies which brought efficiency to existing markets. Learn about app discovery, a shocking statistic relating to concentration in the App Store and new ways for app scoring.

Today I speak with Daniel Foster, Marketing Lead at Techsmith AppShow, a brand new tool for capturing the screen of iOS devices. Daniel is offering us access to the beta version of AppShow. This means we can use it to create videos demonstrating our app functionaility.

Today I speak with Dann Berg, a mentor to those who want to turn their app ideas into real products during their free time. He built his first app, Reader Tracker, in his free time. His writing has appeared in MSNBC, Fox News, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, Mashable, Hackernews and Gizmodo.

Today I speak with Shaun Zelber, Founder and COO of nexVa, a proprietary and innovative cloud-based mobile app store generator. neXva also provides the ability to localize the content distributed in the app store, so customers can be reached with content that is relevant to them. Shaun has built some awesome alternatives to help app developers find alternatives to Google Play and Apple App Store

Today I speak with Toshendra Sharma, Founder and CEO at Wegilant, an IIT Bombay incubated company, a company he founded when he joined as a student. He is also the creator of AppVigil, a cloud based Android app security scanner that identifies security and privacy vulnerabilities during app development to minimize the chances of damage once in production level. Among his other talents include writing, as he has penned a book entitled, Robotics with AVR.

Today I speak with Shakhruz Ashriov, Lecturer at Westminster International University in Tashkent. He is also an expert software architect, working on next generation OS for virtual reality to aid in discovery and creation of Virtual Worlds.

Today I speak with Nicolas Loeillot the CEO of LM3LABS and creator of Xloudia.com . Nicolas likes to develop for the future. In fact, he gets ideas from Science Fiction movies like Minority Report. His service, Xloudia, offers developers high performance image recognition software.

Today's episode I speak with Brian Nash the founder and CEO of Screenpay. Brian is a business development, marketing and strategy guru with a focus on media and technology companies in the content, technology and advertising space. We get to learn about his journey setting up screenpay which sends content to the lock screen.

In this show I am speaking with Kiera Stein founder of Dog-Eared Social and www.kierastein.com . She was a web content and social media manager at CARE. After recently leaving to startup on her own, she now specializes in developing client content both for social media and the webthrough her brand Dog-Eared Social.

In this episode I speak with Chris Beshore. He is founder of CozyApps, an independent iOS developer based in Kansas City, Missouri. Chris teaches us how to manage a full time career with coding and developing as a part-time gig.

Sebastian is the co-founder and CEO of shoutr labs

Today I speak with Jeff Steinmann. Jeff Steinmann is the author of How to Quit Working

In today's segment we will be speaking with Jenviev Azzolin & Denzil D'Sa the co-founders of PPLCONNECT. Denzil D'Sa and Jenviev Azzolin founded PPLCONNECT after leaving their management jobs from a Fortune 500 company, where they led major international launches (one of which was recognized as the most successful in business aviation history). PPLCONNECT lets users send/receive their SMS as well as Free Messages, all in 1 thread. And then continue the conversation on their computer, tablet, and more. We also let users Call with their phone number from any device. We have been compared to an iMessage for Android.

Today we speak with Carlos Polo who is the founder of Perpetuall. Perpetuall is an app that automatically alerts you of these changes and automatically updates the phonebook from your cellphone.