Ask HN: How do we find an investor in the EU/UK for something very technical?

Re:Ask HN: How do we find an investor in the EU/UK for somet... by charlesdm on Monday January 19, 2015 @11:25AM (#8912549)

I guess the best answer here is to talk to people. But if you truly know no wealthy people in technology, that might be hard. Wealthy people usually have wealthy friends, and they tend to invest together (risk spreading).

Pure technical products are usually harder to find investors for, but regardless, you should focus on results/value. If getting an average app developed costs you $20k on iOS, and $20k on Android, then show investors that by using your technology, the second $20k for the Android app can be saved. Don't talk about technical stuff, such as classes/methods/blabla. They won't care, unless they're a software guy themselves.

A question: How does the user experience of these apps feel, in comparison to a native Android app? I can see this idea working perfectly for games, but for apps?

Do you have any sample apps?

What do you need the money for?

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Re:Ask HN: How do we find an investor in the EU/UK for somet... by tluyben2 on Monday January 19, 2015 @11:49AM (#8912677)

- For your kind of $20k + $20k evaluation; we can do most Android apps from iOS in a few k, so yes we have a good show case for that

- The user experience, out of the box, is just identical to iOS with a few Android-isms; one of the goals is to make it more 'Android' look & feel if we have some time (and thus money); to be very honest and i'm not sure if that's different in the US; for non-consumer facing apps it is actually better to have WP8/Android 100% the same as the iOS app as it actually annoys companies to have elaborate helpdesks who have to check what device you have and for consumer facing apps at least our clients generally (and there are some very large ones there) really have no interest in the look & feel of the Android app. They present the iOS app to the board / investors / users / etc, the Android app is an afterthought usually. That said; it is fast (native), it looks good, you can specialise graphics / animations and even specific views to be more native in their look & feel; this does not take long to get it feeling solid

- Example apps; Yes, we can/have show(n) enough

- Using the money; mostly for completing our roadmap which is for 2015; we have 2 roadmaps; for internal and external. The internal roadmap is for when we just go along as we are which is ok but a real shame from my perspective; I think many people/companies would benefit here. And of course if we wait to do this organically we stand the chance of being too slow. My preference would be to do the external roadmap which is focused on making this a sellable toolkit / service. While selling it to clients at the same time (again, I believe what Apportable was/is doing).

Not to mention ; it is not too hard to get games running as well; they are done partly but not running fast enough as we don't do many games so not much need to optimise.

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