26 Nov 2015

Apps World 2015

Thanks to Informa, the organisers of Apps World, we were able to offer eight free stands to the Mobile Monday London community.

Thanks to all of you who came to see us, especially those who made it to the pop-up tea party, and well done to the stand winners for making the most out of the opportunity.

We have some pictures and comments below.


Albert

Ivo Weevers , pictured in the middle above, is from Albert - the financial buddy for self-employed on their mobile. Their premise is that current finance and accounting tools are not designed with a mobile-first mindset at all - they are scary and incredibly hard-to-use. As result, millions of freelancers are still dealing with excel files, bags of receipts, and often are not on top of their finances. Albert solves this by making finances on a mobile extremely simple and accessible to everyone. It helps with invoicing, expenses and payments. His team are the people who also created the mobile apps for Natwest, RBS and the BBC Sports, and they are in the Wayra accelerator. Here is what he said about it:  "...It was a great event for us: We made valuable connections for future events, with potential partners from the industry and some people trialling our app and it was great to meet the other startups too..."




MindsEye

Trevor Loveland, (right above), was delighted to show off his new ‘Cash-Free Events’ system. He said "...interest was higher than I ever expected and we got some really good leads that we are following up on. We made contact with some potential collaborators and I found out that I’m able to make a big claim for ‘R&D Tax credits’ for all the work we’ve been doing!..."



Vertizan

Sean Redmond, CEO of Vertizan (pictured above) used the opportunity to launch his new Vitaq 3.0 App Test Automation tool. With test automation technology used in the high integrity software development world, Vitaq is typically used to verify API's in air traffic control, IoT network stacks and safety critical software in automotive applications. They use formal techniques (rules) to automatically create dynamic tests. Over the last year they have integrated this technology with App test frameworks like Appium, Calabash and RealVNC. Here is what he said about his experience 

"...We were swept off our feet from moment the doors opened at Apps World. We demonstrated Vitaq connected with Appium to automatically test the Amazon App on a android mobile phone to over 50 groups of App developers. With our formal techniques based test description, Vitaq acts like a intelligent virtual user. It does everything to the App that a user would, accept that it never gets tired. Vitaq runs twenty four seven creating new test inputs pushing the App through its paces functionally testing and checking. It also monitors, measures and analyses the test coverage against defined use case scenarios. Using this highly automated approach, it is easy to compare the results of your app running on all popular devices.

We were delighted with the quality of the attendees. The buzz about our App test automation rippled through Apps world. The Gartner test automation analyst came to see us, having heard from others about this new highly automated approach to testing Apps.  We had App developers from big companies like American Express, Marks & Spencer and Travelex. We had many indie developers drop by. We even had security experts who were looking for new ways to do vulnerability (PEN) testing of Apps, which Vitaq is very capable of doing. We learnt an enormous amount in the two days and are now ready to exploit this fabulous opportunity..."

2 Nov 2015

Apps World 18-19 Nov - Discounts, Pop up Tea Party & Support our Start-ups!

Join us for Pop Up Tea Party at 3.30pm on the Wednesday 18th. By registering with us for tea here, http://momolo-and-moblacad-atappsworld.eventbrite.co.uk/, you will also get a free pass to the full 2 days. You will find our Mobile Monday London / The Mobile Academy Startup Village clearly marked on the exhibition map (else, just listen for the whooping!).

If you want to go to the paid parts of the exhibition, you can get a 25% discount by registering here http://bit.ly/1VN5cmI and entering code I8RTYMOMO25.

We are delighted also to announce the winners of our competition for a stand in our Startup Village. Do pop over and say hi!

Double    
http://www.joindouble.com
Double is like Tinder but for double dates. You sign up with a friend and then get matched with other pairs nearby. Anonymously like or dislike pairs that Double suggests in you area. If a pair you’ve liked likes you back then it’s ‘Double Trouble!’ and you can have a group chat inside the app. Our vision is to make dating more fun, less awkward and safer for our generation.

Swytch
Additional Numbers for Calls & Texts  
http://www.swytch.com  
Swytch offers you the ability to use additional mobile numbers on your existing handset without adding a SIM card or changing your provider. Get immediate access to as many mobile numbers as you need. It's easy, instant and completely hassle free. A great way to separate business and personal communications, obtain temporary numbers for dating or marketplace services - good for travellers, ex-pats and businesses based abroad.

BugClipper  
http://www.bugclipper.com
In-App Feedback and Visual Bug Reporting Solution for Android and iOS apps making the bug reporting process seamless by allowing testers to report issues directly from app with the help of Screenshots, annotation and Screen Recording so it is easier for testers to report and pinpoint the issue and for developer to see and understand the issue clearly.

OfferMoments  
http://OfferMoments.co.uk  
Minority Report style billboards that change as you walk towards them displaying your social media profile photo, products that match your demographic profile and interests. And now it also scans what's you're wearing and build ls a style profile.

Minglvision  
http://minglvision.com  
Personalised broadcast of Live events: the viewer creates own  virtual experience by choosing from multiple camera angles, on the fly!

Albert    
http://www.getalbert.com  
Albert is the financial buddy for the self-employed on their mobile. Millions of freelancers are still dealing with excel files, bags of receipts, and often are not on top of their finances. Albert solves this by making finances on a mobile extremely simple and accessible to everyone, helping with invoicing, expenses and payments. Albert is built by the people who also created the mobile apps for Natwest, RBS and the BBC Sports, and is in the Wayra accelerator.

BibShot  
http://www.getbibshot.com/  
BibShot is the sports photography marketplace for athletes and spectators to buy and sell photos. We will soothe athletes' pain by offering an affordable, mobile first and mobile best solution.

Vitaq test automation  
http://www.vertizan.com  
Vitaq is a UK developed, Bletchley Park based, innovation of the year award winning test automation tool suite. Vitaq has just been extended to App testing using Python and the Selenium Appium open framework.  Vitaq becomes your intelligent virtual user that will create controlled random exploratory test sequences to push through your user requirement tests. It is proven to find functional bugs and defects that other approaches miss. Let your compute resource do the heavy lifting of release testing, rather than the hugely expensive, cumbersome and error prone methods of development and QA test script writers.