Think Bulbs haven't been blogging for a while now but we're excited to tell you that our 2nd iPhone product, Saycheeze, is live on the appstore and is doing quite well.
A year ago, our team really wanted to bring the idea of Purikura to the iPhone platform and we delivered. Thanks to all of you who supported, PURI became no.1 of free photography apps and stayed there for 2 months, garnering over 800,000 downloads.
We then thought could we possibly build a camera app that people will want to use everyday? When we looked around the appstore, many camera apps tell customers they have plenty of features. However, packing too many complicated features into one single app has compromised the usability and user experience.
We know user experience is key to any success of consumer products and simplicity and ease of use are often ingredients of great user experience. Therefore, we decided we would strip away all unnecessary features and provide only a few that would be core to users' usages and create a smooth and intuitive flow for the application.
Noticing that it's quite difficult to upload photos from iPhone to Facebook, we decided that it would be awesome if we could help users simplify and quicken the process of doing that. And the result of all these thought experiments is Saycheeze.
Thanks to Apple, we got featured fairly quickly in the New and Noteworthy category and subsequently in the What's Hot category. And day by day we climbed up the ranks of the photography category.
Despite the success, we know we're still far from being the only camera app that people need everyday. There are still features that we could and should build but sometimes we just couldn't do them due to the API's restriction.
It feels great building products that delight many users and we could only hope that users will continue loving them and tell us how they could be improved.
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