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Fair point. We added an explanation on the result page for that use case that says:

"Most successful mobile apps cost upwards of 10K USD to build due to features, level of expected design, connection to a website, and if you’re building across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, etc.). If your budget is less than 10k, it’s more likely a website would be a better route to go. You can however test a mobile app idea out with a website. Here’s how (https://crew.co/how-to-build-an-online-business/build-websit...)."

The purpose was to try and make it clear that most (not all) successful mobile apps cost upwards of 10k USD.

Hey everyone,

I'm Mikael, founder of Crew (http://crew.co) and Unsplash (http://unsplash.com). Before starting these sites, I was an independent designer and I'd often get the question from potential clients, "Should I make an app, website, or both?"

While mobile might seem like the obvious choice because of how it's changing the world, building an app might not be best decision for every particular situation. Granted, down the line a mobile app may make sense. I don’t discount where technology is headed. But a mobile app might not be where you need to start.

The decisions depends on a variety of factors like your long-term goals for your idea, your features, and your budget, etc. Thinking through all these variables can make the decision harder.

To help make it easier to consider the tradeoffs between building an app or website, I took all the questions I used to ask potential clients and made this tool called (perhaps, unsurprisingly) App vs Website.

It walks you through a few 'yes' or 'no' questions and in a minute or so, you have an answer.

I hope this helps give potential clients a better idea if they should start by building an app or a website based on their specific situation.

If you have any thoughts, I'll be around to hop in on any comments.

Thanks for taking a look.

Mikael

If you're curious, here's how we made it: http://backstage.crew.co/announcing-app-vs-website/

Nice. Ya, updating the password would be great.

Avoids the awkward exchange at the register asking for a password.

My number 1 search when I'm in a new city is good coffee shops to work from with solid Wi-Fi and plugs.

I know there's a few sites that exist that help with this but my problem was making it easy to see while I was on the go. Oftentimes, I would just have my phone and needed to find the closest place around me.

So what I did with this project is connect each city to a Foursquare list that can be saved on your phone and seen when you open Foursquare's app.

If you don't have Foursquare, I added a Google Map that uses your location data to spot what's closest to you.

We made lists for 10 major cities in North America and London in the UK. 100 coffee shops total with Wi-Fi passwords for most and plug locations.

The goal was to find enough coffee shops so you could move from coffee shop to coffee shop on foot.

Hope this helps if you're traveling and looking to get some work done.

For each milestone or project, the details of the deliverables are put into the system. This way, if there's ever an issue (hasn't been yet), we look at the documentation to make a decision.

Because the projects are vetted as well, this decreases the chances of this happening.

It's usually 2-3x per week

Thanks Simon. That means a lot.

Here's the link to that getting press post: https://ooomf.com/blog/post36194316012getting-press/

Ya, I loved Tinyproj when I was working freelance before ooomf. Hated to see it go.

Thanks a lot. It's been a crazy ride so far.

Thanks! So happy you enjoy it.

That 25k number was total transactions from which we take a 15 percent commission.

Thanks for the heads up. We're working on it now.

I'm not sure how it got changed but this was the original title, "Hated expensive, crappy stock photos so I made this."

Awesome. We're looking for photos to add so when you're ready, you can submit them here: http://unsplash.com/submit

Funny you mention. Our first idea for the domain was hipsterphotos.com

Good idea. Thanks for the "tip."

Thanks for the comment! Will add more (and different photos in the future). This was just the first batch.

Awesome. Thanks. Added this text "do whatever you want" and linked to that license: http://cl.ly/image/3J0C3L1R301B

Yup! Working on it now. Thanks for the comment.

Hey, thanks for the comment. Looking to add something now. Apparently this is the most 'open' and least restrictive of the CC licenses: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US but it still says we would need to attribute the author which we don't require.

Thanks. Everything is free for commercial and personal use.

Thanks for the catch. Added a source element but Medium doesn't let you link photos so I credited it in the sentence before: http://cl.ly/image/0G0Q2S2D2h3L

Our startup is thinking of doing this in a few months to get away from the Canadian winter for a few weeks. It also helps that our designer lives in Mexico, so that would be our first location choice. Any affordable location recommendations for a travelling startup?

Sam, congrats on launching in the US. Your app has been a life saver in Montreal.

Thanks for the comment. We didn't get a How it Works page up for the launch but we're working on that now. We're also working on making the value prop more clear.

Thanks a lot for the suggestion. How It Works page is coming up soon and we'll make it clear how ooomf fits into the app landscape.

Yes, I agree. There could be further explanations for each app. We should have mentioned somewhere that we manually test every app that is included on the platform (with the exception of the ones that are "coming soon"). Thanks again for the comments!

Thanks for the comments! The goal of our primary tagline is to try and highlight the "Participate & Discovery" aspects of the service. I agree that it needs more work.

Thanks!

Agree with this. App discovery is rough for devs and users. From a dev perspective, it's hard to stick out. There's some fantastic apps out there that get lost in all the noise.

From a user perspective, the goal of discovery is to find the best apps that match my interests. This goal is hard to reach because of a poor user experience paired with inefficiencies in search and the download process.

It's this culmination of factors that makes app discovery a headache.

Agree with this point. I'm 26, and I find that I am most inventive and creative when I'm doing something others would label as "child-like."