Good news: MoID went Instagram

We just released a new version of MoID with Instagram support. If you use Instagram, this is why these are phenomenal news for you:

1. People nearby can easily follow you

Say you are a fashion blogger. Wouldn’t it be great if people around you could actually see and follow you on Instagram? Look no further! With MoID people can directly see your Instagram feed when you are nearby. They do not need to know your username or search for any tags. Yeah, it’s really that easy.

2. You can see Instagram pics of people around you

You are sitting in a lecture and want to browse the Instagram pics of people around you? Easy as pie. Open MoID and you’ll see a list of people around you. Tap on a person to see their Instagram feed.

Catch me if you can

Actually MoID and Instagram fit so well together, that we are really thinking about making a standalone app just for Instagram. We’d call it “Catch me if you can”, and it would focus entirely on browsing Instagram users around you.

So here’s an open question to you: what are your thoughts about such an app? Would you use it? Which features would you want to see? We’d love to get your thoughts on that in the comments!

Dennis Pagano

CTO @ MoID

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Multiple software platforms and versions - a chance for startups!

As a startup with a mobile product we often get asked to make MoID available on other software platforms than iOS or Android. To be honest we love to get this question because it shows that at least some people like what we are doing. We always feel bad to answer that we have to focus on iOS and Android due to our limited startup resources. Wouldn’t it be a great scenario if simply all users would use the same platform and if they would get updates automatically. No need to develop the same product several times for different OS and simply kicking older code needed for older versions. We would be a lot faster, it could be so easy…

Fortunately it’s not that easy! Within that scenario, the absolutely dominating platform could easily rebuild everything startups invented. WhatsApp would have had no chance competing against iMessage, Facebook could have been pulled from Android to make people using Google+ and Spotify pulled from iOS to protect iTunes, if there wouldn’t be the choice to switch for the users. Of course you have to make it to the stage where it is making sense to cover all big platforms but as soon as you get there you will find a bigger potential market than Apple or Google sometimes find.

Thanks for that competition between the big ones!

But there is still one thing you could do that really helps. Update your devices as soon as available! ;-) 

By the way, as soon as iOS 8 will be available will quit supporting iOS 6. Sorry!

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