In the game of App Store MFK... we're marrying Retro. They've managed to nail the flow of posting your favorite photos each week, giving you the perfect photo journal your camera roll is meant to be. That and the 1,429 other amazing features they've built.
After risking it all with a paradigm shifting app (ID) the
@amoamoamo
team decided to play the hits again with Bump, and it's working. Quite a few "fog of war" map apps have popped up in the past few years, but none better to do it than the OG Zenly team:
Airbuds knocks it out of the park with the new widget-as-primary-surface strategy for social apps... and my LORD look at that app icon. 🥵 From our experience it's mostly a fun way to troll your friends for their music taste.
This thing was fun AF for about 5 days, and we say that sincerely. Our theory is that people were just a bit too shy for the mic to make this one stick, but Airchat certainly showed us what it means to take a shot on a new paradigm.
Corner allows you to curate lists of your favorite spots and discover others through your friends. The app's dreamy UI has our hearts but its navigation hierarchy just needs a bit more refinement to stick - we're rooting for this team!
Noplace (think OG Twitter reskinned for Gen Z) launched with a waitlist of 567 billion users and instantly hit
#1
on the App Store before dropping off the charts. A quick open of the app suggests there's still a loyal fanbase, so we'll see what happens...
The self-proclaimed app of the summer is legit our app of the summer. Stompers turns your daily step count into a game of Mario Kart with your friends, where you can pick up items and boosts to fight for the most stomps daily.
TenTen lets you send custom notification sounds to your friends, turning your phone into an actual walkie talkie. We haven't used this yet because we are old but it seems super fun and the traction they've earned so far is nothing to sneeze at.
Soundmap by
@gao_zibo
& co. turns the world into a soundscape and you into the Lewis & Clark of trap music. They seem to be striking a nice balance of sustainable & organic growth with super fans posting for them across multiple social channels.