App Store, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 21Jason Citron 9Kate Pitner 6Joel Simkhai 5Mahak Mohan 4Justin McLeod 4Manish Chandra 3Scott Tannen 2Sara Menker 2Mike Krieger 2
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Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed
- ▶ 5:57 Jonah Peretti One of the apps that is, uh, really fun is if you search in the app, uh, the Apple app store, uh, is Conjure Camera.
Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
- ▶ 45:59 Jim McKelvey Apple could have stopped us, and if we had offended them or made them felt threatened in any way, they, they would have shut us down.
Advice Line with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace
- ▶ 34:28 Mahak Mohan So, uh, we're about to launch, and that actually leads into my question around the App Store, um, which is our biggest milestone is we're about to come out of private beta in the next, uh, couple of months. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Justin McLeod of Hinge
Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
Snap: Evan Spiegel
- ▶ 14:13 Evan Spiegel We put it on the app store so anyone could use it, but obviously nobody knew about it except our friends.
Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
- ▶ 9:44 Scott Tannen It was when the app store opened up. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit
- ▶ 4:41 Kate Pitner And I am the founder and creator of the Poppy Notes app on the Apple App Store. 6 times in the scene
Insomnia Cookies: Seth Berkowitz
AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane
Poshmark: Manish Chandra
- ▶ 43:35 Manish Chandra So we also leveraged the fact that mobile was very novel, and we finally launched the app in the App Store in December of 2011. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:24 Guy Raz And then with each passing year, more people were discovering and downloading apps right from the App Store.
Sonos: John MacFarlane
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
- ▶ 49:12 Luis von Ahn So we developed it, we launched it, and we were at exactly the right time because there were other apps to learn a language in the app store, but they were pretty crappy, uh, and also cost money, and so very quickly this became the most…
Love’s next chapter with Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble
- ▶ 25:33 Whitney Wolfe Herd Instead, you're much better off reading the App Store reviews.
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
- ▶ 2:58 Guy Raz And in the iPhone and the App Store, Joel saw an opportunity.
- ▶ 12:00 Joel Simkhai One was the App Store, and so now, uh, developers could develop third-party apps. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:01 Joel Simkhai I don't, I don't quite know when the App Store and, you know, the distribution started, but it was starting already, uh, and people were starting to, to get these new iPhones, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:06 Guy Raz He's turned down a bargain basement offer to sell it, and he's now anxiously watching the App Store to see how it's doing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:25 Joel Simkhai Yeah, our app store ratings were, you know, one star.
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
- ▶ 50:03 Jeff Lawson And suddenly you saw this explosion where like most apps that you downloaded from the app store, you know, would text you to verify your phone number or would, you know, text you when your order ships or when you have a friend say…
HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch
- ▶ 15:15 Lucie Basch I think the first two years, like our average on the App Store was two stores.
HIBT Lab! Gro Intelligence: Sara Menker
- ▶ 29:56 Sara Menker So think of it as no different from the app store on your iPhone, where you go in and the app store is built on our platform that has all these models that I mentioned. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
- ▶ 45:58 Sam Altman You know, when the app store on the iPhone launched, it would be a big deal for companies to talk about being mobile companies or their mobile strategy at that point.
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
- ▶ 15:36 Leah Solivan The app store was just emerging.
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
Discord: Jason Citron
- ▶ 13:08 Jason Citron And then Steve Jobs announced the App Store. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:29 Jason Citron Developers would start to, like, put the logo on their app icons in the corner, so, like, when you were browsing the app store, you'd be able to see, like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:00 Guy Raz I think when you sold to Grie, um, you were like on 30, I read like 30% of the apps in the app store were using OpenFaint.
- ▶ 34:55 Jason Citron You know, I mentioned this earlier with, you know, consoles and the app store.
- ▶ 58:40 Jason Citron We had to be able to get the app name on the app store, and it had to be a word that you could read it and know how to say it, and if you hear it, you know how to spell it.
Live From HIBT Summit: Payal Kadakia, Tristan Walker, and Perry Chen on Innovation
- ▶ 9:53 Tristan Walker Like send out this, this release to the app store, right?
Live Episode! Clubhouse: Paul Davison and Rohan Seth
- ▶ 38:48 Paul Davison We weren't in the app store.
Robinhood: Vlad Tenev
- ▶ 1:11:50 Vlad Tenev We were trying to keep our systems up amidst being number one on the App Store, which was always the number one concern to make the systems up for all trading.
Hinge: Justin McLeod
- ▶ 39:18 Justin McLeod Yeah, it was starting, you know, the app store was starting to become more popular. 4 times in the scene
Boxed: Chieh Huang
Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
- ▶ 45:21 Luis von Ahn So we developed it, we launched it, and we were at exactly the right time because there were other apps to learn a language in the app store, but they were pretty crappy, uh, and also cost money.
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
- ▶ 43:48 Jeremy Stoppelman So we actually had a, an app ready to go day one, uh, when the app store opened. 2 times in the scene
Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017)
- ▶ 9:55 Kevin Systrom It was only eight weeks from the time we had basically sketched it out to when we put it into the Apple store.
- ▶ 12:24 Mike Krieger Invites that you can have before you launch your app to the Apple store where you can invite people to try it out.
Spanx: Sara Blakely (2017)
Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger
- ▶ 9:24 Kevin Systrom It was only eight weeks from the time we had basically sketched it out to when we put it into the Apple store.
- ▶ 11:49 Mike Krieger So one of the things we did was we have, uh, you have a hundred sort of invites that you can have before you launch your app to the app, Apple store, where you can invite people to try it out.