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Picture Staienger Hunt was picked last week by Dandy‘s live ' . evaluation panel as the first winner ( drill Matt 9col)el. the company's i t l (J. said they should have an app ' rt'.ttl\ for upload by [an o for i liliit kBerr}. Android and 105 plat- l forms l’hat live evaluation panel lll( luded the likes of Alec Saunders. ' 4 \l((‘ president developer relations ‘ . With BlarkBerry. and others in the app space that gave the process MmScobel, CEOofDandyaloalappdflelopmemplatformtrmrecently graduated fromtheCommunlted'i Hyperdrive. busingfiwmo in funding l added credence from BlackBerry and 80C Venture Capital to launch a 60 Day Challenge to bring the best new app ideas to market. mo no") ,. “It‘s about getting original ideas J as well as getting ideas from people applications that are Just waiting to of both those scenarios by taking That kind of focus group evalu- way to solicit what customers can who are very speafir to a certain he developed. and havtng the tools app ideas through their platform ation is invaluable and is some dream of in an app. and the mlent i industry who have a certain prob to do it shouldn‘t be an impedi and have users vote on the idea. thing that's hard to come by at a to bring that app idea to fruition.“ .‘ lem they’re trying to solve." said merit. give their feedback on the concept reasonable price The [hridy oom- said Lynda Gian. director of mar Scobel. 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You can also submit your own idea through this development process have the capacity to have them and will they download it.‘ said 'We sit in the middle of that at http‘Hdndyco and bring in a lot of different peo made Scohel “We try to step in the mid developer dilemma and the (on "We're trying to solve the pli- into the proress to make the " [be other problem IS the poo tile and develop that for them sumer who has an idea that wants two sides of that equation." .ipp .is fantastit as wecan ' tilt who have that capacity to make “lf you‘re a developer and you to get it to market" said \(‘llht‘l ' lo go through [be last thing the world needs Is great apps are just building some can build whatever you want you Obviously. 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