Creating apps to help with your productivity is growing. Companies that help users build apps include Appmakr and Appdiction but Podio has taken app building to a new level by opening an app maker store at 224 6th Street in San Francisco.
The goal of the store is to help users build apps and is offering working lunches designed to demonstrate how Podio can help create apps for increased productivity, I’m going tomorrow
Podio is launching what it calls the world’s first business app store and business app builder to help people at work create productivity apps with no need for technical expertise. The approach is a good example of how company’s can try to snare users by making it dead simple for them to create what they want themselves, as part of a “creator economy.”
The Copenhagen-based company will sell its Podio App Builder, which allows people to create custom work apps for business processes from recruiting to expense reporting. Users can build those apps within a matter of minutes. Podio is also unveiling its Podio App Store today with more than 200 business applications available for free.
The Podio app can replace multiple apps from others, such as Yammer, Box.net, and Sharepoint, said Amit Gupta, vice president of development at InMobi, a mobile ad network. Podio costs $99 a month and can be used by up to 25 users. A free version is available for up to 10 users.
Podio has opened up a physical store in San Francisco where it will work with users to help them create their own apps. The company has raised $4 million in funding from Sunstone Capital, in addition to an earlier angel round.
The company’s chief executive is Tommy Ahlers and it has around 15 people.
“The key point here is that a user-created environment is much easier for people to work in,” Ahlers said in an interview. “We feel like we are putting all of these different web apps together.”
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