Mobile Roadie: From Start to What’s Ahead
Leading the pack in iPhone (soon Android as well) app development, Mobile Roadie is definitely a force to be reckoned with. Schedule, after reschedule, after reschedule we finally caught up with founder and CEO Michael Schneider. For those of you who may not know what Mobile Roadie is it’s a simple and inexpensive service which enables you to build, manage and quickly customize iPhone and Android (coming in a week or so) applications to the App Store. Mobile Roadie’s has an automated system that enables you to build applications and have them posted to Apple’s App Store within a short span of time.
Costing $499 for initial setup and then $29 a month after that, Mobile Roadie’s supports a many interactive features like photo galleries, streaming music that can be linked for purchase on iTunes, YouTube videos along, a fan wall, through which you can post comments and photos and also share them with your friends. Mobile Roadie’s also provides access to an intuitive CMS which makes updating photos,video, managing comments, and posting news, an easy process.
From their very humble beginnings of just specifically being focused on providing iPhone apps to musicians to now being the go to iPhone app provider for no matter what industry you may be in. Mobile Roadie has now provided apps to one of the most respected names in publishing Random House, some of the biggest conferences such as Twiistup and LeWeb, and even to some of the biggest stars in the tech scene like Brian Solis.
In this interview with Michael we go over how they transitioned from just being a iPhone app provider for musicians to what comes next for Mobile Roadie.
