Wish you a very Happy New Year from AppKettle Team!!

AppKettle wishes all our App users Very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2010!! and Thank you for your continual support, we really appreciate it!!

2009 was the year when AppKettle was born. On its first year AppKettle launched five applications on Android, three on Facebook and one on the iPhone. Darshana and I are pretty impressed with our outcome on first year. All credit goes to our Software Engineers (Arin, Gopal and Arun), Graphic Designer (Samtha) and Product coordinator (Nishant) who have been working really hard to get these application out. Thank you for all your support!!



Looking back at our first Application Shouldi - A polling app among friends, it had a pretty concept but with ok UI. As we built this App and launched, we learnt a lot what app users are looking for? what they like and started listening more closely. We got number of request from south American countries that they need this application in Spanish. So we built second app Deberia.


Deberia - Same polling app like shouldi in Spanish, catering to all Spanish speaking users. However, the adoption of the app was not as great we expected. So looking back what went wrong? Well status message, Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook was way users get their friends comment on the questions or anything. So lesson learnt was unique value to user, which they cant get from other places and it should be really really simple and easy.


Learning from our first two application we built our third application on Android "Indian Railway Schedule". There was no App which was catering to indian train commuters. Furthermore, India has thousands of railway stations and hundreds of trains, that it just made lot harder to build the mobile App. We took-up this challenge to build a mobile App, which will allow android users to "very quickly and easily find the status of train arrival and departure". We built the app on this key principle and published it on Android Market. We got a great reception on the adoption of the App and the App has 5 star rating. We have received tons of great reviews on the App.

Special thanks goes to Darshana for building this App!!


As Darshana and I love Bollywood movies, we were using quite a number of bollywood apps on our iPhone and Android to know what latest movies, gossip and news in the bollywood world. We realized that we had to use two or three apps to get information. We found this fustrating, so we decided to build a bollywood app "Access Bollywood".

The key thing we wanted the app to do
(1) Get all bollywood information from movies, to gossip all at one place.
(2) Should be fun and intuitive to read bollywood gossip.
(3) Should be very simple
(4) Should have pictures rather than text.

We built the App on the key principles and launched the App on iPhone AppStore, Android Market and Facebook on Thanksgiving. Just over a month since we launched the App, the App has been well received by the bollywood fans. We got ton of Feedback on what more Access Bollywood users want in their app. I really want to Thank you for your Feedback and i want to tell you that we are working on the request and in next coming months you would see your most requested features implemented.

It was very nice year for AppKettle and we are very thankful for your support.

So what's coming in 2010. A lot more new apps for user and also enhancements to existing apps.

We wish you all a very Happy New Year!!

Vishal

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