Mondays. Such A Case Of The Mondays... Creating An App Without Breaking Your Budget

I had so many ideas this weekend of things I needed to blog about and share. Alas, I sit here with nothing coming to mind...

So two cups of coffee later I did finally remember one thing. I'm all about things that come cheap and easy. I'm also terribly afraid of commitment so monthly commitments are much easier for me to make. I work for a municipality and we really wanted an app. Want to know how much they put in the budget for us to get one???? Nope. Guess higher. Still not there. DING DING DING! $50,000!!!! Do you know what I could do with $50,000??? It actually didn't pass. So I started digging and found this.

This website will let you do a test run and not only gives you a really easy interface to create the app, but it's a monthly charge (which varies depending - I would be happy with the $39 a month plan) and they will not only submit it for you to apple but also across all platforms. So you get an app that will be available for anyone in your audience, for $39 a month! Not a bad deal.

http://mobile.conduit.com/

the only work i did to get as far as this screenshot was put in our website. not everyone gets that lucky but making it look like this takes about 10 minutes even if you don't have that kind of luck.

 

whenever i messed with it about this time last year i took ten minutes and got it to look more like this, with a handful of other features that you can access! our branding has since changed so they look considerably different!

just an easy approach at getting a mobile app out there if you want it. it is free for your users to download from what we were told. i haven't tested it as far as to know whether or not there are ads within the app but i'm still looking. they also give you easy ways to promote (including the code to put QR codes and more on your website, facebook, etc) your app and you have full access to the analytics so you can see if your $39 a month is worth it. i would imagine tying this to a visitor site would be amazing. as soon as ours goes live i will be testing it and begging and pleading with the powers that be!