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@rrhoover Thanks Ryan! When we spun out into our own company late last year we asked a ton of users what they wanted to see from Crunchbase first and the answer was pretty overwhelming: a fast and easy way to lookup companies in mobile. Over 20% of our users use mobile to access our site so it felt like a no brainer. We started out building the search use case first and realized throwing in some discovery features like showing what's trending and the latest Crunchbase Daily felt good. Hope you enjoy it!
@jagermcconnell @rrhoover I had a look at the app. I like it but honestly I'd have created a FB Messenger bot instead. It'd have been a perfect case since CB is a database of article and info, and it'd have saved time and $ as well.
@passingnotes we can discuss this topic forever, but at the end of the day CB should simply look at where its target market is and when they access to it.. I personally doubt people use CB mainly at work AND most of them are not on FB, but this is just my personal opinion not supported by data..
P.s.: mobile apps will die soon and be replaced by bots on different platforms according to specific customer segments.
@zac_46 @passingnotes Definitely a good suggestion. We have millions of users who use their mobile device to access CrunchBase so the feedback from users was that they wanted a native mobile app. That being said, building a bots on a number of different platforms is on the roadmap. Stay tuned!
Congratulations! I'm very glad to have this app. Small note: The share button in the menu sends a link to your website. It would be great to have a link to the App Store too. Thanks again!
@jacobkbluhm Thanks for the kind words - and great idea! We'll get that into a future release!
Hm. I wish the UX achieved what @equidate has here - as @crunchbase offers even more and broader info... Nice to see new development from CB though!
I can see myself using this a lot. Normally for any type of startup data I'm looking for, the first places I go to are @CrunchBase and @Mattermark. The prospect of having both now on mobile I think will be especially useful for journalists and writers, as well as for other professionals looking for data and trends.
@adammarx13 Cool! Glad you like it! We think being able to navigate our whole graph through mobile so you can see not only what you searched for but getting to all of the related records in Crunchbase is important. Let me know if there's anything it's missing that you'd like to see in a future release!
Thank god! Sessions are too short on Crunchbase.com.
EDIT: Nevermind. No auth on app. Please bring auth and 'My Crunchbase' to app.
@richardginsberg We'll be making improvements to our website soon too. Stay tuned 😄. Optional mobileauth and access to follows coming soon!
Hey PH folks! Really appreciate you taking the time to check out our new iOS app. It's been a long time coming - but we're hoping you like it. When we spun out and became our own company late last year we started asking users what they wanted to see from Crunchbase and time and time again we heard folks wanted a mobile app. We spent a lot of time trying to make the app as frictionless as possible to be the best way to research companies, people, and investors on your phone.
Some things we're excited about: swipe left on home page and find different cards showing off what's happening in the app. Predictive/fuzzy search if you don't quite know the name of the company/person/investor you're looking for. It's also pretty speedy - we invested a lot in our infrastructure to make it zip right along.
We're already cranking on the Android version - so stay tuned for that. We've also got some iOS features coming that didn't quite make it in time for launch. Spotlight search, graphs, more entity types so you can drill into everything without seeing a web view), access to your follow lists and ability to follow, custom news feeds, and a lot more.
If you've got suggestions or thoughts on the app, would love to hear them!
Yey!! Finally! I've been using Crunchbase and been waiting for this app. Congrats to the people behind this!
My favorite thing from CrunchBase is the #CBDaily tweet that shows a brief overview of companies funded. I am glad to have this app to provide further context to the companies being funded.
Love me some crunchbase. So useful for so many different reasons. I'm curious why you guys thought that a mobile app for a public database was necessary though. Were your users unsatisfied with the mobile web version?
@evankimbrell Hey Evan - thanks for the question. Building a native app lets us take advantage of being a more integrated experience for users on their phones. It's faster because the overhead of UI elements, logic, etc can be built into the native app itself vs passed over the air. In the near future you'll see features like 3D touch, spotlight search, and other integrated experiences coming to our app which would be hard to accomplish as a pure mobile web version. I feel if generally you believe your app roadmap requires a close relationship with the phone, you're likely to build native or have to rethink your roadmap a bit. Hope this helps understand our reasoning a bit!
Your website has been very useful for getting company info.. Glad to see that a mobile app has been released!
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