My name is Ian Sefferman.
I'm a co-founder at AppStoreHQ. We help mobile app developers create, promote and support their apps, and in the process we make it easy and fun for smartphone owners to discover the perfect apps for their needs.
I was born Friday, April 13, 1984. I'm from Detroit, MI. I recently moved from Seattle, WA to Los Angeles, CA. I went to college in Chicago, IL.
Contact me at iseff@iseff.com.
Can't find what you're looking for? A while ago I switched from Blogger to Tumblr, leaving my previous posts in the dust. Try browsing the Archives, which may contain what you're looking for.
I’ve been spending a lot of time in Detroit and the folks out there LOVE their Red Wings. So I hope they win tonight.
Thanks for the support. And, yes, we do LOVE our Red Wings. They have to step it up against the Sharks, though.
(You can take the person out of Detroit, but you can’t take the Detroit out of the person.)
It’s only been two weeks since Apple introduced the iPad, but there are already 3,357 “iPad ready” apps, and 2,905 apps (and counting) designed specifically for the device. Many of these apps are significantly more expensive than their iPhone cousins, raising the stakes for…
We’re launching formal support for iPad apps today. It’s a great addition to an awesome and growing lineup of iPhone, iPad, Android, and mobile web apps. Our team is killing it lately, which is one reason you should join us.
Help Celebrate Our Own Potential As Individuals:
On the April 18, 1775, Paul Revere and other riders set out to warn American farmers and villagers that the time had come to fight for freedom.
As individuals, these riders combined to help launch our country’s quest for independence – an independence that gave each of us the opportunity and freedom to engage our own individual “rides” that can make a difference.
So on April 18th, we salute Paul Revere and the others who fought for our freedom. They demonstrated the power and potential of a single individual.
Since 1997, on April 18th, people all over the country and around the world have celebrated Paul Revere’s ride by wearing the KEEP THE RIDE ALIVE T-shirt.
Today, over 250 shirts will be worn worldwide (from California to New York, USA to Japan) to celebrate the power of a single individual.
Position:
We’re looking for a jack-of-all-trades UI/UX designer/developer who isn’t afraid to get slightly dirty in the backend. You’ll work primarily on our Rails frontend code: simplifying, beautifying, and generally making our site easier and more fun to use for the hundreds of thousands of folks who do so each month. You’ll A/B test multiple designs to find the best one, but you’ll make the call based on instincts when necessary. You’ll build worthwhile products and have an amazing experience working with an great team of 2 alongside a handful of other cool companies also housed at Founder’s Co-op.
…
Why work at AppStoreHQ?
Our goal at AppStoreHQ is to build fantastic tools for users to find the best mobile apps and to help developers create, promote, and support their apps. We’re leading the way in mobile app search and discovery with our Hottest rankings, review aggregation, and multi-platform support. We also run the largest independent iPhone developer forum, iPhoneDevSDK. Founded in March, 2009, we’re scrappy, making real revenue, and headed quickly toward cash-flow breakeven. We’re funded by the awesome folks at Founder’s Co-op and located in the beautiful Eastlake neighborhood of Seattle, just a block away from Lake Union.
With you on our team, we can take our vision to the next level. You’ll receive a salary and a significant amount of stock. You’ll be just the third full-time member of the team. We’re a very casual company (No meetings! No set amount of vacation days! Free lunch Tuesdays!) but intensely passionate about what we do and helping those we serve.
Come join us and help us build an amazing company! To apply, send your resume, portfolio link, and other relevant info to iseff@appstorehq.com.
This is why the App Store works.
Yay! Go Apple! Go Opera! Golf claps all around. Looking forward to trying this out.
A week ago I decided I was going to go the full month of April using only mobile web apps instead of native iPhone apps.
At the same time, I wanted to take some time to try out the beta of Rails 3.
Over the course of the week, I realized that foursquare was the app I had the hardest time with (their mobile web site is awful). So, I decided to use their APIs to do something about that.
About 10 hours or so later and I’m excited to introduce you to fortysquires, a mobile HTML5 version of foursquare built with Rails 3.
Fortysquires is a pretty bare-bones version of foursquare, only implementing the absolute essentials that I care about: checkin, searching for venues (nearby and by name), and your checkin history.
What’s great about fortysquires, though, is that (1) it’s a paid app you can purchase from AppStoreHQ for $0.99 (truly an exercise in dogfooding our mobile web app payment API), and (2) I decided to open source it mostly as a way to show off the ease-of-use of AppStoreHQ’s payment APIs, but also in case anyone wants to help teach me some of the cooler features of Rails 3, or implement more foursquare features, etc.
I hope you guys enjoy it, and please do give me feedback. As I say over and over again, I seriously believe in the mobile web and I hope this is a good example why.
P.S. The foursquare API is a joy to work with, as is the foursquare Ruby gem. Thanks to all those folks for their hard work.
Ian was a special guest on This Week In Android, where they discussed a whole range of issues, including the recent iPhone OS 4.0 announcement and how it affects Android.
I had a lot of fun doing this (and was surprisingly nervous!).
