Build a social network on Google's App Engine platform for free

 

 
We know Google's app engine is free up to 500 MB of storage and enough CPU and bandwidth to support an efficient community serving around 5 million page views a month. You have a even better news.  Vikuit.com provide a software package for free which will provide you with  building blocks that enable you to create your own fully-featured vertical social network on it. Therefore, if you are looking for a script to be hosted on Google App engine to make a social network, this may be an ideal option for you. However see pros and cons before you move forward.

Pros and Cons
It is free.

However when I visited their demo I saw lot of spams on it. It means the platform may be vulnerable to the automated spammers. This is one thing a webmaster seriously counts when moving for a script to be used to develop a web platform. Once you get surrounded by manual spammers you will able to give a fight, but if you a platfrom.

Fast, simple, easy and reputed way to publish your book or academic reports (with ISBN, get indexed in Amazon, Kindle for free)

 

 

Do you want to publish your book? You want limited number of printed copies and further you need it fast, simple and easy. This is what many academics want these days. All around the world, academics are being evaluated by their publications and most cases they are given highest number of points when they published a book on reputed publisher. However the local publishers are busy and people have to be in queues. Lot of publishers (reputed) have their own evaluation processes and sometime have internal politics and views which may delay or deny the work to be published. However, creatspace.com has come up with magnificent solution. Now you are free to publish your work in very easy way. It is open for everyone with a connection to the internet. You just have to follow their instruction to build the book and get published. You will get an ISBN number and your book will immediately indexed in creatspace bookshop and within several days your book will be listed on Amazon and its electronic kindle store. You can decide the price for your book, where they will take a portion of it for their cost and profit. The most amazing thing with createspace is you can order several copies after paying the cost of them.

Make your own travel guide app for Iphone, Android and HTML5 enabled devices. (geotargeted guide)

 

 

Map2app.com is providing you a unique chance to make geo-targeted guide for city or country without knowledge of any coding. This cloud service helps you to turn any tourist destination to an app which can be used by travelers to find information about location, hotels, food and transportation. Their pricing starts from 97$ per month or pay once option starting with 199$ and it support up to 7 international languages. (Good news if you are a student, they have a free solution for college projects :-)) I think this is great if you make way of selling or earn money through with app, tourism is good business when approach with correct measures. As this is little bit expensive way of making app, make sure that you have a way of recovering the cost. I can suggest following methods,

 

• Selling app on android & apple market (Make sure you are in eligible country)
• Hotel affiliates (Agoda, dohop.com)
• Connect with local business for commissions and advertising
• Connect with your own business for travel guide or rent cars

Do you want to create very custom design for mobile app and sell it?

 

 

Are you a designer or having great design idea? You can create very custom design for mobile app and sell it on iBuildApp.com which is used by many novice developers to build apps themselves. Design of the app and submission is easy with ibuildApp, a three step process.

 

 

When people build apps on ibuildapp, they are offered with options to use default designs or premium designs from external developers. Usually the default designs are not appeared nice, so people tends to go for premium design which they will purchase through the ibuildapp market place. So you have a good market share for your design, you just have to focus on design process, selling will be taken care by ibuildapp.

Build your own GPS-enabled mobile app for location based business and application

 

 

Do you want to Build your own GPS-enabled mobile app for location based business and application? Weeverapps.com allow you to make powerful app for location based marketing and customer engagement. You can make an isolated app or you can use it as the mobile website. (And it further allow you to use this service as joomla or wordpress plug-in). This app maker has another unique feature, they make single app for all platform, which will be easy for you to handle submission process and push notifications in future. It has following key features.

• Create custom tags and locations; select a map maker to view a page with text, photos, videos and more!
• Map filters: visitors can filter map marker-locations by article category, tags and more
• GPS enabled: display nearest locations and map markers, refresh GPS anytime
• Center Map � quickly return to a preset map view
• "Nearest to Me", a blog-style list of nearby locations

(Weeverapps is the only GPS enable mobile app maker, anyway if you know anyother service please let me know, i will list it here)

Google Map + Wordpress - An easy way to build location based website

Wpgmaps.com

Do you want to build location based website using Wordpress and Google map? further allow your users to tag places on the map. It is possible with WPGMaps.com which provides you a wordpress plug-in for that purpose. It provide you more control, basic features such as tag places and list stores for free . Additional premium features such as user generated maps, get directions, custom styles, polygons ... etc are to be purchased (Full package is 49$)

Features
You can provide your users to get direction from the present location to the target location which is powered by Google API, therefore the directions are super accurate and it will be ever improved.

Further you can allow user to add their favorite places on the map with an additional plug-in which comes free with full package.

Tip: First use their free version, once you familiarize with their system and you can go for the full package. This is my advice to any person who likes to purchase Wordpress themes and plugins.

Do you want phones, VoIP, and messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software.

Do you want  phones, VoIP, and messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software.? Are you willing to bring your company internal and external communication to the next level? Embed all your phones, VoIP and SMS/MMS messaging to a cloud based solution which will reach you via web portal, desktop software and mobile App. Twilio is making that happens. Some of their clients' stories will make you more clear about what they are doing, Airbnb  gives hosts and guests a way to talk on the phone without revealing their phone numbers. Hulu keeps customers happy through their premium phone support center built on Twilio. Intuit, who processes payroll for millions of businesses, added a layer of security to their website using Twilio SMS.

See what your company can do with your communication process after join hands with Twilio.