Most Popular Unauthorized Use of ShopSavvy?
Periodically we poll our users about their experiences with our scanning app. This week we asked a statistically relevant number of users how they were using scanning app this week and one answer surprised us. Evidently some users (about 14%) are scanning the items they received for Christmas to a) determine how much their family and friends spent and b) determine which store has the highest price so that they can return and get the most bang for their buck. Of course, we do not condone this sort of behavior, but thought it was worth sharing. Our scan volume on Christmas Day was huge – almost 3X bigger than any normal shopping day – despite most stores being closed. We were wondering what was going on – now we know. Remember it isn’t the cost of the gift, but the thought that counts…
Scanning app looking for Startup Manager
Scanning app is hiring a ‘Startup Manager’. The position is pretty typical for a startup (i.e. your responsibilities will be very varied). The position pays $50K+stock options and will be based either in Dallas or San Francisco (salary is really focused on DFW area candidate). Duties will include:
Social Media Duties
- Craft social media strategy
- craft stories for corporate blog
- craft stories for shopping blogs
- tweet interesting stuff about ShopSavvy and Shopping
- update Facebook presence with interesting stuff about ShopSavvy and Shopping
- build a shopping community
Managerial Duties
- direct and manage PR activity with PR firm
- direct and manage off shore resources (Randy)
- direct and manage freelance writers for shopping stories
Personal Assistant to CEO Duties
- schedule all calls and appointments for CEO
- organize travel schedule for employees (mainly CEO)
- coordinate with controller and CPA for all HR and expense issues
ShopSavvy is in Top 1% of all apps
The app market has exploded. Apple has the world’s largest market with over 571,745 apps in the iTunes App Store. Android is a close number two with 300,000 apps. Nokia is in third place with 50,000 apps in the Ovi store with Microsoft trailing in fourth place with 30,000 Windows Phone 7 apps. Across each of these app stores scanning app is easily in the Top 1% (often showing up in the top ten in most of the app stores). IDC predicts that by 2015 183 billion apps will be downloaded from these app stores (last year 11 billion were downloaded). The market is growing like crazy. According to loyalalytics 26% of users are very loyal – active users who use a new app more than 10 times.
Live in Alaska? I bet you have an iPhone. . .
Matthias spent a little time crunching some of our numbers for an internal project and came up with some interesting graphics. He built a couple of visualizations that show the breakdown of scanning app users by OS by state. Red = Android and iOS = Blue.
Ever wonder which state has the most Android users versus iOS users? South Dakota. Ever wonder which state has the most iOS users versus Android users? Alaska. Where does your state stand on the Android/iOS question?