Social Applications

In the future (and the future is now), all important apps will be social applications. It’s not that there will be a million Facebooks, but that the features found on Facebook – tagging, comments, newsfeeds – will appear on millions of sites. While Crowd Interactive builds applications for social networking sites like Facebook, we also build social networking software that works with or leverages existing social networking sites.

If your idea sucks, we’ll tell you

We’re not just developers. We’re businesspeople who have started our own businesses. Both entrepreneurs and large companies come to us with concepts for social applications. Crowd Interactive can help refine ideas to actually make money or otherwise meet our client’s goals.

With social applications, it’s all about the interface

When social applications are not easy to use, they don’t get used. That’s why before we start coding, we fully prototype the application. We design each screen and build a clickable interface. Only after the interface looks great do we go on to the next step.

Development of social applications

Our developers code in Ruby on Rails, a common, powerful and flexible open-source language. With 40 developers and growing, we have the breadth of knowledge needed for even the most complex social applications. The technology is compatible with most social networking sites like Facebook.

Deployment onto social networking sites or onto your own servers

We have sys admins on staff – specialists in deployment and hosting – who can identify the best hosting plan for you so the social applications we build are not sluggish even with many users. We’ll help find a cost-effective solution that fits your budget.

Pricing for social networking software

Estimates happen in two stages. We offer a cost for prototyping – between $2,500 and $10,000. After building a prototype, we have enough information about the project to give a super-accurate quote for your social networking software or social applications.