Akpos is no strange name, especially online, from BlackBerry personal messages and display pictures, to tweets and Facebook updates, but wherever we find him, he makes us laugh and urge to share such content.
Akpos jokes have come in different media – photos, text, videos, but these developers at StackArena had bigger plans to leverage on the viral phenomena. They built an app and here is their story with Lead Developer, Tunde Olabenjo as the mouth-piece:
Spotting an Opportunity and Acting on It
Akpos Jokes is an idea that started one fateful evening. We were just reading a funny joke that was woven into the popular Akpos Personality. The next minute we registered the domain AkposJokes.com and created a hosting account, and so the journey began.
Think Approach and Get Started
This was in November, 2012. We decided that we were just going to build a native app that would connect to an api from the website backend. That’s still the idea. While we were building this solutions, we decided that we would allow people post jokes. It’s something like the ‘e-How for jokes’.
Results and Feedback
The success and positive feedback we enjoyed encouraged us to keep adding features and we have a long way to go. Our BlackBerry app got approved in January 2013 and we have over 500,000 conservative installations on all blackberry phones OS 5.0+, (conservative, because App World statistics are sketchy). We have experienced 10,000+ downloads daily for many days when our app was featured on BlackBerry App World.
Android app downloads are clearer and straightforward. Akpos Jokes got approved on the Play Store in February 2013, and have gotten over 50,000 downloads and growing in Play Store alone. We have published the same on Opera and other stores with nothing less than 10,000 downloads.
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We were approached by Nokia Nigeria after we published the s40 java app. The downloads were already 6000+ so they decided to feature our app on ovi store. Right now we have over 70,000 installations across their Nokia Asha range and other s40 phones.
App users have been found to spend an average of 8 minutes 17 seconds daily.
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What Next?
One would agree this is quite an impressive story, as I’m looking at half-a-million (500,000) users spending 8 minutes daily on app that just shares jokes from a guy called Akpos. Well these developers are not stopping any time and are ready to unveil something new.
Find out in the next post on Akpos.
