It could not have gone any better. Monday we watched as the zaps started coming in. It was good fun to see what people were creating! We watched the beauty of zapd come to life as our users started sharing zaps of their vacations, families, new retail products, sleeping coworkers, artwork – their lunch, their headphones, their silly faces. We loved a Japanese zap of “how to make a zap”.

Then Facebook shut us down. Our app was just beginning to run and suddenly it’s cut out at the knees! It was a critical moment, and we are so grateful to the Seattle tech community connecting us with the right people at Facebook to get us back online in a matter of hours. GeekWire published our story as a valuable lesson to iPhone app developers. Moral of the story: get to know someone on the inside if you’re going to hand them the keys to your front door. In the end, the GeekWire story about our snafu received far more attention than their writeup about our app, so we called it a win.

The press since Monday has been getting better and better. Cnet, Appolicious, Gizmodo – the list goes on. Friday, our app magically appeared on the App Store’s front page. Holy exciting, Batman.

Zapd went international as the tweets rolled in from Japan, China, Germany, Holland, Italy, Portugal and France. We’re in the top ten apps already for several countries around the world.

Our app is keeping its full five stars in the app store but it’s the feedback from users that drive this development. Every bug report. Every idea. Every compliment. We answer them all.

Help us change the face of content publishing. Try Zapd. Tell your friends. Give us your feedback. Let’s do something amazing together. Thank you from everyone on the Zapd team.

Kelly Smith
Founder & CEO
Zapd