iPhone app developers directory launched

Rating: Just load iFindiPhone onto your Apple Handset

How about this? Just use your own iPhone handset to find somebody who’ll design your trendy new iPhone app. All you have to do is load the iFindiPhone app onto your own iPhone. The service seems to have a decent pedigree being offered by Mango (ICT).

The company claims this is the first iPhone developer directory designed specifically with the iPhone’s inherent ease of communication in mind. Hmm.

As Mango’s md, Neil Morecraft, says, “Unlike other matching services which involve submitting forms online and providing extensive information, we ask users to provide only the details which are essential for matching their requirements to potential developers.”

The company claims the service eliminates the need to review tedious search engine results to find the right developer.

It matches the skills of developers againgst information provided by the user. All searchers need to do is input what type of company they are plus the type of app they’re searching for and which types of service they require.

The clever bit is that this is an iPhone app which is effectively speed dating for iPhone app developers.

“The majority of businesses and entrepreneurs looking to launch iPhone apps, as well as the developers who create them, will be iPhone users, ” said Morecraft. “So it makes sense to provide a service which enables both parties to connect quickly and easily using their iPhones.”

Naturally, iFindiPhone is looking to add as many developers as it can to its books. Hence as an incentive the first five leads to new developers are free.

After that the developer is charged on a cost per action basis from  £2.50 for following up an enquiry with a FaceTime call or email.