Kory Westerhold

Napkn.io - Building the world's best new app idea, every week, for free

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Zach Whelchel
Napkn gets the best developers/designers to spend a week of their time creating someone’s awesome idea for free. The app is put on the App Store for free. And no one makes any money… wait… really? What’s the point? We’re in this to make ourselves better developers. Real developers solve real problems. Awesome developers are selfless and want to use their super magical developer skills to give back. New developers need a chance to work really hard and prove themselves worthy. For all these reasons we’re starting Napkn. The best idea from anywhere in the world will be built each week. Have an awesome app idea? Have friends that are always telling you their awesome app idea? Want to spend a week bringing someone else’s awesome idea to life? Napkn was made for you! Would love to talk about questions/thoughts!
Jorik
@zachwhelchel Love it! How are you connected to Firebase? How did you set up the partnership?
Kory Westerhold
Napkn is a website where anyone in the world can submit their app idea. Each week they'll select the best idea and build it for free.
Amrith
It might be published under your name... But do we get the credits? @zackwhelchel
Zach Whelchel
@ambonium absolutely. The goal is to honor the idea originator just as much as the original team!
Harsha Halvi
This is great.! Do you open source the apps so that other people will build on top of them..?
Zach Whelchel
@h_halvi the main goal in open sourcing is so others can learn... but this is a great idea too! Absolutely a possibility!
Harsha Halvi
@zachwhelchel If you open up a API of your platform i will be eager to make a product that will help the people who contribute to the source will get access to jobs at leading Startups.! ;)
Amrith
Well, now that you've been featured on ProductHunt with so many upvotes (congrats about that), I'm pretty sure your inbox would be flooded with ideas... So how can you assure us that every idea will be read by you? Will you personally reply to each and every idea? Or you'd be flooded with so many awesome ideas, for which it'll take a long long time to fulfil all those ideas.. How do you deal with this @zachwhelchel ?
Zach Whelchel
@ambonium thanks! So far its been a lot of great ideas but still manageable. If it gets out of hand we may incorporate some community help for surfacing the best ones but the developers at Napkn need to help make the final say as they are in the best position to guesstimate which ideas can be done really well in a week.
Amrith
@zachwhelchel So you are personally gonna reply to each and every idea?
Zach Whelchel
@ambonium can't promise a reply to every idea... but we will absolutely read and consider each one!
Kristofer™
@zachwhelchel Love it. Look forward to seeing more of what comes out of this!
Zach Whelchel
@kristofertm thanks! We're pumped too. Also know that down the road we plan to start rotating out the weekly team. A new developer/designer featured each week to build someone's cool new idea. Fun for all!
Martin Skakala
@zachwhelchel Looks very interesting, will definitely check back & keep fingers crossed! Like the idea of rotating the team. Good luck guys.
Zach Whelchel
@mskakala awesome! We plan on being pretty active with our Twitter game. You can follow along @NapknApps!
Yogesh Mali
Fantastic idea ....more power to developers
Zach Whelchel
Hey all, we've had a lot of great ideas come in already. If you haven't yet check out our Twitter @NapknApps. Currently posting a bunch of the ideas we've had come in so we can get everyone's feedback on which app we should build next week!
Khairul Akmal
This is fun! 😄 Just a question, does the person who gives the idea work with the developers & designers as well?
Zach Whelchel
@mofodox absolutely! We hope the people who have awesome ideas will want to be super involved in the process!
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