November 13th, 2012

Let The App Creation Era Begin: Yapp Events App Builder Launches Out Of Beta

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Remember the time when web sites were reserved for businesses, or niche designers? Before the days of Tumblr and Wordpress and even MySpace (where I learned my first bit of basic code). Now anyone can easily build a website, to the degree where startups have crazy names like Yipit and Maluuba just to snatch up a domain.

But times are shifting. We’re heading into an era of app creation, rather… → Read More

June 18th, 2012

Yapp Founder Maria Seidman On The Rise Of App Creation And Being A Pregnant Founder

Yapp has been around for a little over two months, offering consumers an easy way to create and publish mobile apps based around events. But the vision is much bigger than some conference or your weekly book club — eventually Yapp will allow any consumer to make almost any kind of app to broadcast as they please. It’s founder Maria Seidman’s big bet on trends.

She dropped by the studio… → Read More

April 4th, 2012

Yapp Raises Funding From Kleiner Perkins To Allow Anyone To Create Mobile Apps For Events

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Maria Seidman helps organize a monthly womens’ networking event for her business school alums in New York City but was frustrated with some of the options for creating a dedicated mobile app for an event. So she decided to create a DIY mobile app creation platform herself. Today, her brainchild, Yapp is launching as an online service where a consumer — even if they lack any technical or design… → Read More