Denver-based interactive agency and app developer
AgentSolid, splits its work between projects for corporate clients like the National Stroke Association and Old Chicago and speculative development like "
Appocalypse," an app for the end of the world that's 99 cents in the App Store.
The app tabulates an apocalypse score of 0 to 100 (it's 59 at press time), and users can track apocalypitc subcategories like Bigfoot sightings and extreme weather.
“It ties into Twitter and a whole bunch of news sites,” says Co-Founder Nathan Kurach. “The timing of it was somewhat appropriate, with the end of the world coming. An updated version is scheduled to hit the App Store by January 2013, provided the world is still here."
Kurach started AgentSolid in late 2009 with Tom Gibbs and Jody Monson after working for several advertising and interactive agencies in Denver. The company remains three employees bolstered by contract help, but the trio expect to add up to three employees in 2013.
“We decided to do our own thing,” Kurach says. “What we are trying to do is provide high quality work to clients without the headaches and hassles of working with a traditional agency.”
Gibbs has a motto. “The Web is dead. HTML isn't changing, but there's a new version of Android and iOS coming out every year. If I look at a website twice on my phone, I download the app."
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