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Being an individual developer can mean that it’s difficult to write iOS apps because some of the tools to do so can be costly or simply hard to find. Sure, you may be able to get along by writing little bits of it here and there on your own time - but there are many existing services that help make the development and deployment process much easier. That’s where App Dispatch comes in.

App Dispatch is a community focused on connecting mobile app developers to the tools and services that make iOS apps a blazing success. If there’s a feature you want to implement, from a simple push notification system to a complex data-store, there’s no reason to reinvent the wheel. 

For its inaugural launch, we are partnering with App Dispatch to give individual developers a leg up on the competition. With full access to our backend platform your app can be developed, deployed and maintained all from one intuitive interface and for much cheaper than our normal plans.

Check out the App Dispatch site to learn more about their offers.

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With the summer coming to a close we wanted to share what we’ve been working on over the past month.  

What’s new?

1. The dashboard now has pretty graphs to show analytics for all of your deployed apps.  Go ahead, be sneaky and dig deep to find out what your users are up to and see when the real action is happening. 
2. Give your users the ability to share content with anybody who is logged into your app without the need to manually maintain a user list by using public ACLs.  

Check out the docs for in depth details on how to use all of the new goodies.  Until next time, code on!

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Dailytekk, the curators of cool and useful tech, picked us as a top ten resource for mobile developers! We’re quite excited to have topped the list as one of the few BaaS players to make the cut. 

Built to handle what you’re building

Variety is the spice of life and that’s the kind of ecosystem we’re supporting. 

From the fresh take on Mr. Men and Little Miss with the Sightings social photo sharing app starring numerous Little Miss favorites, to a CME
certified medical education and point-of-care tool, our platform makes sure the gamut of services you offer keep chugging along - at 1 user or 1 Million.

We love getting dreams off the ground and liberating big data. Tell us what’s holding your ideas from seeing the light of day - email team@cloudmine.me - and we’ll pave the way for your projects to rise up and shine.

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From our humble beginnings at a Startup Weekend Philly to being a Global Sponsor of all Startup Weekend events, the past nine months have been a whirlwind of growth and activity for us.

Embraced by developers — who are now running more than 1,500 apps on our platform — their feedback was instrumental in ironing out the kinks of developing apps on our backend. Months of strengthening the core have lead us to today.

Introducing CloudMine 1.0: a backend stack capable of supporting companies building something new, digital agencies working on hundreds of apps for their clients, and large enterprises vying to expose their legacy data to mobile.

How backend-as-a-service works

Fast, flexible and simple to use. We take care of the entire mess of infrastructure and web service software development that stands between your idea and a finished app. Avoid building and scaling custom server-side software, maintaining a codebase that your customers will never interact with, and putting out server fires – just talk to our flexible API using HTTP or one of our numerous mobile and web SDKs. We’ll fight off the hassles and deal with the headaches of making sure your app is running whenever, wherever.

Build your way, just faster

All it takes to get started developing on CloudMine is dropping our SDK into your codebase. Everything else is already taken care of, leaving you free to flex your development and UX muscles. Want to develop for mobile? Download our iOS or Android SDK, or do it yourself through our REST API. Want to build something for the web? Use the JavaScript SDK and upload your HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and image assets right to our servers.

And best of all, there’s no data models or schema locking to worry about because  database structures should not influence the design of your apps. Code your model objects client-side the way you want, give them to the CloudMine SDK of your choosing, and we take care of the rest. You can even host custom code on our servers to be executed on your data whenever you want, which is great for doing that heavy processing or third-party API integration that would typically require your own server.

Whichever platform you develop for, the same robust feature set will be available across the board. So you know that crazy location-based, social picture sharing chat room you wanted to build? Or all of that data you have been housing while dreaming of a way to get it mobile? We make all that possible.

Easier to get started

Just like on a date, first impressions are key. Taking that to heart, our entire site went through a major clean-up so you won’t feel bad for referring friends to check it all out.

The polish didn’t stop at the surface though. Steve, Artur, and Nic tore up the CloudMine Dashboard. The new version makes it much easier to view and manage all of your active apps, data, and users. It also provides more contextually relevant assistance when getting started so you can get to the good stuff faster.

There’s lots to be discovered, so sign in and play around. We’d love to hear your feedback on the improvements!

Happy Mining!