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Aussie football legend Ben Dixon came to us with a promising idea. He dreamt of paving the way for fans to interact with their favourite celebrities. Through our interactive designs and with the help of famous investors such as Ricky Pointing and Matt Tripp, Ben was able to raise over $1 million in capital.
Like many successful ideas, Roamni was born from the need to solve a genuine problem - how to share, create and experience local stories. Yet with no prior technical knowledge, friends Jason Fabbri and Greg Curcio needed a partner. Appetiser was the perfect fit, adding industry expertise to their passion.
From this collaboration, Roamni became the official partner of Formula 1 in less than three years. Now, they have a startup valued at over $5,000,000.
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Youfoodz needed an app to consolidate its success in Melbourne and the country and to open itself up to a new mobile audience. We built a dynamic app with an smooth ordering process that took seconds complete a purchase. Since then, Youfoodz was voted Australia’s #1 Healthy Food Delivery Service for three years in a row.
Aussie football legend Ben Dixon came to us with a promising idea. He dreamt of paving the way for fans to interact with their favourite celebrities. Through our interactive designs and with the help of famous investors such as Ricky Pointing and Matt Tripp, Ben was able to raise over $1 million in capital.
Like many successful ideas, Roamni was born from the need to solve a genuine problem - how to share, create and experience local stories. Yet with no prior technical knowledge, friends Jason Fabbri and Greg Curcio needed a partner. Appetiser was the perfect fit, adding industry expertise to their passion.
From this collaboration, Roamni became the official partner of Formula 1 in less than three years. Now, they have a startup valued at over $5,000,000.
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Youfoodz needed an app to consolidate its success in Melbourne and the country and to open itself up to a new mobile audience. We built a dynamic app with an smooth ordering process that took seconds complete a purchase. Since then, Youfoodz was voted Australia’s #1 Healthy Food Delivery Service for three years in a row.
Technology has the power to make a real difference. This drives us to be exceptional as specialists in design, development, and growth. We’ll empower you to achieve the biggest impact with your idea, no matter your goals or industry. Think big with us and realise your true Melbourne app development potential.
Technology has the power to make a real difference. This drives us to be exceptional as specialists in design, development, and growth. We’ll empower you to achieve the biggest impact with your idea, no matter your goals or industry. Think big with us and realise your true Melbourne app development potential.
Your app’s design is a user’s first impression of you, and there’s no second chance. We’ll partner you with one of our global standard designers to create an app that gets you results. They’re ranked #7 in the world on Uplabs, the only Melbourne team there. No other Australian company is even in the top 100.
Your app’s design is a user’s first impression of you, and there’s no second chance. We’ll partner you with one of our global standard designers to create an app that gets you results. They’re ranked #7 in the world on Uplabs, the only Melbourne team there. No other Australian company is even in the top 100.
Poor quality development will cripple your app and cause problems in the future. To protect against this, we live by our in-house coding gold standards that demand a high standard of work. Our agile process lets us quickly adapt to challenges and make rapid progress. Together, we’ve built apps that generated more than $100 million in revenue for our clients.
Your startup journey doesn’t end on launch day, so neither does our partnership. We stay with you to supercharge your growth engine and guide you to success. Work with a team of specialists, not generalists, that have helped 100’s of apps grow to dominate the app stores.
Poor quality development will cripple your app and cause problems in the future. To protect against this, we live by our in-house coding gold standards that demand a high standard of work. Our agile process lets us quickly adapt to challenges and make rapid progress. Together, we’ve built apps that generated more than $100 million in revenue for our clients.
Your startup journey doesn’t end on launch day, so neither does our partnership. We stay with you to supercharge your growth engine and guide you to success. Work with a team of specialists, not generalists, that have helped 100’s of apps grow to dominate the app stores.
“Appetiser Apps built a native iOS and Android app as a two-sided recruitment platform. Using existing wireframes, they worked in sprints and helped improve the design along the way. The app is ready to go into beta testing and has met all quality standards. Appetiser Apps delivers professional development work and offers valuable insights to guide product design. Flexible, communicative, and skilled, they’ve managed a smooth collaboration.”
James Clendining
“The team at Appetiser have been a joy to work with. In addition to being excellent developers they have also provided suggestions and advice that has been invaluable to guiding our project. The team is always quick to respond and is highly professional. I couldn’t recommend them more highly.“
Tim McNicoll
At this early stage, it’s not possible to provide an estimate of the total cost, just a guideline. The cost of the design and discovery stage is decided closer to the start of our collaboration. It’s best to start there and move forward using a payment milestones plan to keep track of the cost better as the idea evolves.
Keep in mind that expertly developed apps come at a premium. It’s easy to forget that teams of designers, strategists, and managers are involved in making your app a success. It’s possible to get a product built for a price that’s too good to be true, only to have costs spiral through bug fixes and constant improvements because the quality wasn’t there from the start.
Some pricing factors include:
Appetiser takes on a much bigger coaching and leading role to help guide a startup client through the development process and beyond. When you work with Appetiser, your team includes startup coaches and mentors that have the insight and hard-earned understanding of what it takes to be a startup success. We have seen many achievements here, with clients gaining $10,000,00 valuations with our prototype alone, while many more have raised $100,000s. Others have acquired millions of active users and even gone on to IPO, and launch on the stock market. A startup dream!
Take Roamni as an example. From our work together, the team went on to achieve a $5 million valuation and work with some of the most famous companies brands in the world, like the Formula 1. Our commitment to our client success is one of our defining values.
Locally managed and owned Melbourne startup Good Empire achieved fantastic results.
Using our quality design prototype, Good Empire approached investors, and pitched their idea on crowdfunding site Birchal.
They then successfully completed not one but two crowdfunding rounds, raising over $1.5 million from more than 1000 investors. All without the need for any development.
A desire to innovate and improve in a fast-moving space is a core motivation here at Appetiser. We pursue innovation and impact three components of our company – our people, our processes and our products.
Our team came from the research and development departments at Samsung and Kyocera, and we have seven patents across the team – this includes one that is now valued at $17m by the telecoms giant Telstra.
Geavi, a GPS encryption app with audio-visual integration, is a pioneer for social change and personal safety that creates recorded evidence of incidents automatically from your pocket. The aim is to increase people’s safety by empowering them with new technology that makes those around them accountable for their actions by creating video evidence that can easily be stored and shared with their family and friends.
We are proud of the feedback we have received from our work. The response has been nothing short of emphatic. Take a look for yourself.
We also go the extra step and are happy to offer direct contact with our satisfied clients (decided on a case by case basis), so you won’t have to make an essential decision off the back of second-hand information.
We possess the whole stack of tools to create a fantastic product and facilitate its growth and optimise it for success. For us, developing apps alone is not enough. We’re committed to continuously supporting our clients and pushing for innovation through launch and beyond.
Here are a small snippet of our highlights:
Appetiser places 64th in the prestigious AFR Fast Starter list
With Appetiser, communication is key to the successful resolution of any project. That’s why we insist on providing open channels and facilitate regular feedback and discovery sessions. Communication channels can vary from face to face workshops, shared project management software and good old emails. With our design/development processes, we follow an agile methodology that can be split into two main parts:
We recommend an initial minimum viable product (MVP) discovery and design stage to get things off the ground. As well as getting an interactive prototype in your hands, It also allows you to not fully commit financially to an app idea that may not be viable.
You are not locked into any maintenance agreements! Since we build native mobile apps, there’s less of a requirement for maintenance as other hybrid technologies. Many of our clients choose to jump onto a continuous improvement retainer, where we are always optimising and enhancing the apps. But it’s optional!
As the customer and financier of a project, you’ll have rights to the product, and you’ll own all of the intellectual property behind what we develop for you. The IP stays yours to apply to any future projects if you see fit.
Don’t worry! Your idea is protected by our exclusive non-disclosure agreement.
