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RareWire creates documentary series about the creation of Spine
In October Kansas City-based app creation studio RareWire announced its first in-house app, Spine, a social platform to help users tell “micro-stories.” Now, with the help of filmmaker Adam Carpentier, RareWire walks you through the process of creating the app with a 10-part documentary series …
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RareWire was built on a strong relationship, split responsibilites
(Guest post by Matt Angell) Kirk Hasenzahl and I started RareWire in 2010 with a mission of simplifying and improving the app creation process. We developed a simple language that makes it easy for designers, web developers and front-end programmers to build truly native mobile apps. In the past three and a half years, we…
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RareWire’s first in-house app, Spine, is a social forum for micro-stories
For those creative writers not quite ready for novel writing, RareWire has an outlet. The Kansas City startup’s first completely in-house app, Spine, lets users write and publish micro-stories of up to five sentences…
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RareWire integrates with Salesforce to tap into its 100K+ customers
RareWire’s 14-person team is ready to tap into an international business with more than 100,000 customers. The app-creation startup, based in Kansas City, recently announced native integration with Salesforce—a giant in cloud computing and customer relationship management—through its App Creation Studio. The startup’s platform allows anyone to build native iOS and Android apps quickly, mainly…
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RareWire, Neighbor.ly leaders part of KC’s 30-member Challenge Cabinet
The first Kansas City, Mo., Mayor’s Challenge Cabinet has been stocked with 30 young professionals from a variety of industries in public and private sectors. Mayor Sly James opened applications for his advisory panel Jan. 30 and recognized the appointees—narrowed from 160 applicants—at his State of the City Address on March 19. The Cabinet is…
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KC developer’s Race to the Pennant app hits Opening Day home run
As of this morning, Kansas City developer Tyler Hillsman’s baseball tracking app, Race to the Pennant, had been downloaded 10 times. But with the excitement of Major League Baseball Opening Day, and a shout out from notable tech blogger John Gruber, it became the top paid sports app in the App Store by mid-afternoon. An…
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KCPT spotlights tech company cluster in Crossroads District (Video)
Kansas City Public Television’s “The Local Show” recently put its cameras on the city’s startup community, featuring a neighborhood that’s become a popular spot for tech companies. “While tech companies have been popping up all across the metro, there’s a noticible cluster developing in the vicinity …
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Startup Sales: Give it away
(Guest post by Kirk Hasenzahl.) There are a number of tremendous ideas and new startups in the Silicon Prairie these days. It is an exciting time to be a startup around here. In all my worldly travels as a startup founder (2 years worth), it amazes me that many of the most incredible ideas I…
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Boulevard Beer Finder among apps built with RareWire software
From beer and magazines to religion and tipping, apps in a variety of categories have been built using the App Creation Studio, the product of Kansas City, Mo. startup RareWire. Since its launch last October, co-founder Kirk Hasenzahl said more than 2,200 accounts have been created on the platform, and currently more than 1,000 apps…