I picked up an interesting factoid this week from AppStoreHQ - a Founder’s Co-op portfolio company that offers iPhone app search, discovery and social recommendations. In addition to their consumer-facing site, the company also owns and operates iPhoneDevSDK, the leading independent community site for iPhone developers. iPhoneDevSDK has over 20,000 registered members, but also picks up a ton of iPhone developer search traffic thanks to a very active and content-rich member forum.
I was curious to see how strongly the iPad announcement would register in the inbound search terms to the site, so I pulled the Google Analytics keyword analysis for Wednesday (the day of the announcement) and there it was at the top of the list: ‘iPad human interface guidelines’ was the top term for the day. I polled the whole keyword set for phrases that included ‘iPad’ and found almost 100 more, accounting for a little over 1% of site traffic that day (see image for the top 10 terms by volume).
So for what it’s worth, my take is that iPhone developers *are* excited about the iPad as a new vector for innovation, and are already getting busy figuring out how to take advantage of its capabilities.
Chris DeVore: Do iPhone developers care about the iPad? Here’s a data point… (via iseffcom)
Nice, Ian! I didn’t know you were a Founder’s Co-op company. Congrats on the traction!
(via caterpillarcowboy)
Thanks! Yep, we were actually “spawned” from Founder’s Co-op, as opposed to being started, then taking the investment at a later point. I believe that Founder’s Co-op is going to be a big/the biggest player in the Seattle startup scene — they’re funding great people, are thinking about how to fix the VC model, and they have an active, experienced group of LPs who engage with the portfolio companies and give advice whenever asked. The fact that Andy, Chris, and Founder’s Co-op will run TechStars Seattle will help the scene tremendously, too.
