Startup
- Name
- spotbros
- Description
- Instant messaging apps
- Yrstart
- 2011
- Url
- Link for spotbros
Main description
Spotbros is promoted as a fast, safe and social way to communicate with your friends. It's an instant messaging application for the Android that incorporates social networking and localization.
Many pundits predict this app could be the replacement for Whatsapp, and the team behind spotbros maintain it's far more secure. One to watch, and they will need all their skills and know-how to succeed in a highly competitive field
Web articles
| 2013-04-23 | Full article via web link | Techcrunch.com | The Spanish startup has also shared some interesting numbers with TechCrunch. It says that over 1 million users have registered for its apps since tentatively launching in February 2012 on Android only, before adding iOS and a full launch in October 2012. Around 71% of users are in Spain, with Latin America and the U.S. making up most of the remaining users. | |
| 2013-03-09 | Full article via web link | www.elconfidencial.com | Hace poco más de un año, en febrero de 2012, Spotbros nació en fase beta para el sistema operativo Android. El experimento casi pasó desapercibido para la gran mayoría de los usuarios pero sirvió para que dos jóvenes emprendedores españoles ganaran experiencia. Tiempo antes, Alejandro López y Fernando Calvo tuvieron una idea cuando se encontraban de viaje por Londres y de repente se dieron cuenta de que para saber dónde había un buen restaurante tenían que preguntar a amigos suyos de Bilbao. "¿Por qué no poder preguntar a usuarios que haya a nuestro alrededor?", se preguntaron. Y dicho y hecho. Alejandro y Fernando se asociaron con otros dos emprendedores españoles y en sus ratos libres, a la salida de sus respectivos trabajos, crearon Spotbros, una aplicación para chatear con los contactos del propio teléfono y que además permite crear grupos sin límites de miembros, enviar mensajes a usuarios que haya alrededor e incluso participar en grupos públicos. Our translation: A little over a year ago, in February 2012, Spotbros was launched in beta for the Android operating system. The experiment went almost unnoticed by the vast majority of users, but enabled two young Spanish entrepreneurs to gain experience. Earlier, Alejandro Lopez and Fernando Calvo had had the idea when they were traveling in London and suddenly realized that to find a good restaurant they had to ask friends in Bilbao. "Why aren't we able to ask those already around us?" they asked. No sooner said than done. Alejandro and Fernando met up with two other Spanish entrepreneurs and in their spare time, away from their jobs, Spotbros created an application to chat with your phone contacts but also allows you to create unlimited membership groups, send messages to users who are around locally and even participate in public groups. |
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| 2012-05-18 | Full article via web link | WebPR | Seen in Atocha: “El próximo invento español que cambiará el mundo” SpotBros team claim their instant messaging application will be added to the 3 most famous Spanish inventions. If it helps and enjoys us as much as the mop, the chupachups and the futbolín…we hope so! |
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| 2012-03-01 | Full article via web link | About this product | What makes SB unique? In Spotbros we believe that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts, we believe that fusing together different technologies we have created a unique tool that will change for ever how people interact with each other. Spotbros redefines Instant Messaging by creating a social network on top of it where people can interact not only with their friends but also the other users around them. |
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| 2012-02-24 | Full article via web link | SmartPlanet.com | MADRID–With the highest unemployment rate in 16 years, why on earth would six friends quit their solid jobs to start their own company? If you ask SpotBros, it was now or never. “I don’t have to pay for a house. I don’t have a girlfriend. I don’t have a car. I don’t have that kind of responsibilities that (I would) in seven, eight, ten years. I think we have to try it,” says one of the SpotBros partners Fernando Calvo. “It’s a good experience, and I think, if this goes well, if this works, we will work and we will be happy. If this doesn’t work, we will be also happy because we will learn so much. Many people think if you have tried to do a business and you fail you are a loser, but I am not loser.” The guys were working in tech and business roles, for companies such as Accenture and Sony, when they decided–when Spanish unemployment was only around 22 percent–to quit their jobs and start their own app company. |
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