Boulder Startup Week

Want to build an awesome mobile application? Learn some great advice and get your questions answered by developers responsible for millions of app store downloads.

“Best Practices for Building Ethereal Apps” by Jordan Stone, Chief Software Architect at Notion
Jordan is an experienced software architect, building apps with millions of downloads for special events, including the Masters, Wimbledon, and the US Open. In this talk, Jordan shares lessons regarding data persistence, configuration, and performance when building apps that are only relevant for a short amount of time. What would you do if you didn't have time to recognize and fix a bug in production?

“The hard thing about mobile things” by Vikas Reddy, Co-Founder at Occipital
Vikas Reddy is co-founder of Occipital, startup focused on mobile computer vision. With co-founder Jeff Powers, Vikas led the development of RedLaser, a popular barcode-scanning application launched in 2009 that was acquired by eBay in June 2010. Vikas and the team at Occipital are focused on their new product, the Structure Sensor, a device made for the iPad that can capture the world in 3D. In this talk, Vikas will share some practical lessons for running a mobile first startup, learned the hard way at Occipital.

"Hybrid Mobile Apps Done Right" by Miles Matthias, CTO of EquityEats
For obvious reasons, hybrid mobile apps are an attractive option to building mobile apps nowadays. In this talk, Miles explains how to build hybrid mobile apps for the long term. If you've ever built an app over a weekend with a framework like Phonegap, Ionic, or Titanium, had it take off, and felt that those aren't good frameworks for long term maintenance and development, you're completely right. Miles will show you how to graduate from those "silver bullet" frameworks.