HERE’S yet another great news for Cebu’s tech startup community: NextIX, a technology solutions provider founded by Roberto “Bobby” Suson in Cebu in 2006, is heading to Silicon Valley with two mobile application projects: GroupJump and Miimove.
The two projects are among the 2012 ON3 winners picked by the Science and Technology Council from a nationwide search in four regional competitions in Davao, Cebu, Pangasinan and Manila.
GroupJump and Miimove will join SpellDial, another Cebuano team, and Payroll Hero in undergoing a three-month immersion package in the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California.
GroupJump user experience manager Kristoffer Vincent Loremia said they will spend the three months there marketing their two projects, getting more clients and additional funding from venture capitalists to fuel their expansion.
GroupJump is a mobile app that companies can use to build their own mobile social network and engage with their customers.
“People don’t usually go to websites every day but people go to their phones every day. So the great thing about an app is that it’s pretty much right there. Every time they go to their phone, they see your app, your logo,” said GroupJump mobile app specialist Arlo Anderson.
“It’s very engaging and it’s building more of a closer relationship with your client, customers, followers,” he said.
By using GroupJump, a restaurant can post regular updates to its loyal patrons and even share its menu. The restaurant can then post photos and even share stories of loyal customers. Anderson said a nail salon can use the app to enable its customers to set appointments from the phone.
“Every time you post something, your members, customers and followers will receive a notification. You could post pictures of items, services and satisfied customers,” he said.
Anderson said admins have full control of the system and could approve or delete members and posted content. He said companies have access to a web interface to add content that is then automatically sent to the app. Loremia said companies can also update content from the app itself.
To build their own app using GroupJump, a company needs to pay $150 as one-time setup fee and $12 an hour per developer for development fee for added features. Anderson said the company can have the app in about 30 days. Starting on the second year, the company will need to pay $300 per year for maintenance and upkeep of the app.
Loremia said their package is much more affordable compared with having to spend $1,000 at the minimum to build your own app yourself.
Miimove, on the other hand, is a sports collaboration tool that allows athletes to work with coaches from anywhere in the world. The app has a sports profile for both athletes and coaches. The profile page contains all the videos of the athlete as well as his or her updates.
Miimove mobile app specialist Marco Gerardo Mempin said the profile page can be a point of contact for talent scouts and coaches.
Mempin said coaches have several tools to help improve the performance of athletes.
They can draw on videos of an athlete in action to point out how to improve their posture or movements. He said golf instructors can use the drawing tool to improve a their swing.
The tool also has a “compare” feature that allows the simultaneous playing of 2 video clips to allow a coach or athlete to compare performances. It also allows the overlay of the video to provide an even closer comparison.
Mempin said the app is meant for sports organizations to deploy to their members. He said the app can be customized to a coach or organization.
Videos produced within the app will have the organization’s or coach’s watermark.
Anderson said Miimove is great for gyms, dance studios and other similar organizations.
Mempin said they are working with Golf Australia and Tennis Australia to deploy their own version of the app. He said initial reviews have been “very good.”
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