Company: appsbar, Deer Field Beach, FL
Company Description: appsbar is a free app building platform used by over 175,00 app builders around the world. appsbar was launched in 2011 to empower anyone with no tech training to build a functional mobile app in less than hour. appsbar continues to grow as an easy to use online tool where people build and publish apps at no cost everyday. appsbar is the fastest growing app building community in the world.
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best New Tech Company of the Year

Nomination Title: appsbar

Tell the story about what this nominated organization achieved since January 1 2011 (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:

appsbar was introduced in April 2011 as the first platform for business and individuals to build and publish apps on popular app store platforms including iTunes and Android Market. It immediately grew to a 80,000-user community whose personally produced apps have received more than 1.5 million downloads.

appsbar has grown to become the single largest Android developer, with more than 10,000 apps published to Google's Play.

appsbar is the first way for anyone to build and publish apps was a game-changer in a constantly changing game. As app stores continue to grow as the place where we engage people and businesses, app builders have defined how and why we use apps. appsbar introduced a number of notable new approaches to app development, including filters that alert the user throughout the creation process if they are adding or missing any pertinent functions or details that would prevent the app from being published. The app also is published without the interruption of advertising.

Apps have become the must-have tech accessory for many people, and a core part of forward-looking business marketing plans. Not many people or small businesses have the know-how or means to create highly functional and individualized apps that are ready to be published in popular app stores.

appsbar fills the gap between over-simplified apps and costly, professionally-produced apps. It presents myriad personalization opportunities with a unique interface that guides creators through the entire process – from creation, to editing, to publication - with visual and textual clues at each step. As creators build apps page by page, each app becomes more personalized through limitless combinations of background colors and fonts and the ability to upload images and videos.

Smartphones and tablet devices are eclipsing PCs as the way people connect with friends and find businesses, entertainment and events, appsbar was introduced as the tool to make it easy and engaging.

Like Web sites and blogs in the 1990s, and microblogging through the past decade, apps are now an essential part of smart business marketing. Apps have emerged as a way for any business to engage their customers beyond the corporate Website or blog. Businesses had to rely on an entire internal design and software team or hire a costly agency for the design, creation, customization and publication of apps – which is unrealistic for smaller businesses with tight budgets. Now, businesses large or small can create unique apps with the same functionality and crisp features of specialty apps.

Building an app starts at www.appsbar.com, where with a PC, Mac, or tablet device, a user creates an account based on a username and email address. With an appsbar account, the creator is able to save, publish, and continually edit their app. Each user will be allowed to make as many apps as desired, but apps that are too simple, offensive, or fail to meet appsbar proprietary filters, based in part on the guidelines of individual apps stores, will be rejected.

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Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader of this nominated organization:

Scott Hirsch, the founder of appsbar has applied entrepreneurial spirit and digital savvy to give businesses and individuals ways to make digital life easier and more successful. Scott is building appsbar as the next evolution of how people engage and promote products, ideas and opinions as the apps phenomenon continues grow