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Square Sellers United is an independent online community and platform that helps organize and empower businesses and individuals who use the popular Square POS (re: squareup.com).

In addition, the SSU platform allows members to vote on which new features, changes, etc. they’d like to see Square make and then as an official Square Partner, the SSU leadership brings the most voted issues/requests to Square directly.

If Square doesn’t act on a particular request or it’s too far out (in their plans), the SSU Development Team creates a code-based solution ourselves using Square’s various APIs, as well as our own existing in-house technology (and solutions).

Finally, whichever features SSU does not develop (ie. because it’s not voted on enough) SSU members have the option of self-funding that feature by using the very same Feature Requests section where members vote, which also allows members to make low-increment pledge(s) similar to crowd-funding... with one major difference:

Members who self-fund/crowd-fund a feature (or solution), essentially become the owners of that technology and SSU pays them a percentage of revenue based on how many members opt into using that particular feature (or solution).

SSU Square-powered Solution (Live Example)
An Open-Sourced Square-powered Website
- with Online Ordering & Payment
https://squaresellersunited.com/kodes/2

Square Feature Request (Live Example)
Ability to Back-Order Any Item/Product/Service
- with Online Ordering, Payment, Pre-Pay, Inventory, etc.
https://squaresellersunited.com/kodes/2

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CODE-Installer + SquareTech

SSU’s CODE-Installer - a custom software installation technology that we created to automatically install most of the cool tech (ie. SquareTech) and software/code-based solutions we create that are powered by Square’s API and work with Square’s various POS versions and equipment.

It usually takes just 10-30 seconds for a single instance of our code/tech to automatically install. See the How It Works page to learn more.

SquareTech - the various technologies we create specifically for use with Square POS.

Who We Are

We’re a Chicago-based Technology Solutions company - that specializes in creating high quality Native Mobile Apps, Responsive Websites, Web Apps, Software, APIs, Frameworks, SDKs (software development kits for apps), etc. We’ve been creating solutions for 20+ years and in that time we’ve amassed a heck of a lot of technology, expertise, best practices, etc.

Our current digital IP Portfolio is worth about $5M+. IP = Intellectual Property. That means all the stuff we make that’s unique that can be used to create mobile apps, websites, etc. How do we know it’s worth $5M+? Good question. Here’s that answer »

Yes, we’ve tried the VC-route and it wasted more valuable time than it helped. And, since we’re typically 2-5 years ahead of everybody, which has secured us some very big partnerships, we figured it was about time we tried a different approach.

Our Approach

First and foremost, we’re almost like an extinct species. We make “Native” Mobile Apps, whereas SO much of the tech industry centers around “Hybrid” Cross-Platforms.

ThinΛpp is built on a simplified MVC framework in PHP with a responsive, 12-grid HTML Bootstrap for the front-end - and MySQL for the back-end database. Note: There are of course also some HTML5, Javascript and Ajax elements too. This makes it the most fluid combination of languages and architecture imaginable.

Our specially trained ThinΛpp Development Team can take care of any customizations for just $25/hr or any average website developer should be able to spend just a few minutes with the code and be able to jump right in.

Call or email us now to get started
1-844-484-4627 (1-844-4THINAPP) or contact@getthinapp.com

What We Do?

ThinΛpp specializes in "wrapping", copying and integrating existing websites (or content) seamlessly with real, hand-crafted, native mobile apps. We’ve pre-built the most common features, so that we can get your custom App submitted to the App Stores within a mere hour or less.

Our approach, focus and apps are simple, elegant and sleek - and no other service on earth can compare to our design, process - and value. Simply put...we're changing the way mobile apps are made.

Our Technology

Overall, we try to do things smarter, more efficient and more streamlined than traditional App Development companies. Here are some examples:

• We pre-build common and popular features in our AppWraprs
• We created our own platform (BΛSE) with $70k+ in features
• We’ve streamlined both App Store Submissions processes
• We have a stream-lined assembly line approach
• and much, much more.

What is ThinΛpp BΛSE?

ThinΛpp BΛSE is a pre-built Hybrid App platform that makes it easy and affordable to create a custom mobile App - for any business, passion, interest, website or idea.

What is a Hybrid App?

A Hybrid App (also referred to as an HTML5 App, Progressive Web App, Web App and Browser-based App) is one that is both web based (ie. a Web App built in the same coding languages that are used to create highly responsive and mobile-friendly websites) and “native” based (ie. built in coding languages like Apple’s X-Code/Swift or Google’s Android Studio, which were designed to exclusively build mobile applications for those respective devices).

A Web App (which makes up most of a Hybrid App) is an app that looks and feels just like any “Mobile” App that you would download from the App Stores, except you don’t actually get/download them from the App Stores - instead you can add them (or rather their App Icon) to your device’s home screen - and then access it via its App Icon to use the App version.

ThinΛpp BΛSE is 85% Web App + 15% Native App = Hybrid App

BΛSE is coded/built with the most popular web based languages and latest internet standards. This makes it more flexible, more affordable, faster to develop and more accessible than traditional “native” based Apps while still having the same look, feel and functionality of a Native App. And, yes, Apps made with BΛSE can also be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play (with the help of our ThinΛpp AppWrapr).

Mobile Websites vs Web Apps

As you can see above, the most noticeable difference (at first glance) between a typical Mobile Website and a Web App is that Web Apps are fullscreen (just like Native Apps). Note: You don’t have to download Web Apps - you “install” them (see the section on App Icons below for more on that).

As of May 18, 2016 - Google recently announced the launch of Instant Apps for Android, which will also be Apps you don’t have to download. Business Insider Article »

What makes ThinΛpp BΛSE so unique is that while the giants like Apple and Google battle for App dominance, we’ve made a product that is not platform/device specific - and works on everything - and is way more affordable, easy to make - and easier to understand. Google’s announcement simply proves that there is an increasing interest in creating Apps that do not need to be downloaded. However, ThinΛpp does have an App Wrapper version, which allows it to be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play.

App Icons

The next thing we wanted to tackle was making it easy to access a Web App.

Most people don’t even know Web Apps have their own App Icons, just like Native Apps. In fact, once it’s on your phone’s homescreen there’s no way to even tell the difference.

Image on left - This was previously the only known way to prompt a User to add a Web App’s Icon to your phone’s homescreen.

Image on right - BΛSE also has a custom full screen prompt that only appears if you are not in the Web App and automatically pulls your App Icon.

Note: Apple has not yet created a method for conveniently linking to a Web App (or Web App Icon) directly or starting the Add To Homescreen function from a link, however Google has recently made it possible for Android devices (and we’ll soon be adding this to BΛSE).

Up until recently there wasn’t even much support by Apple, Google and Microsoft for mobile browser based features that contribute to the web app experience (ie the browser on your cell phone). In fact, the evolution of the mobile browsers themselves had been fairly slow up until the middle of 2015. This could possibly be because Apple, Google and Microsoft’s focuses were all respectively elsewhere.

However, we, and a small movement of developers around the world, however have been eagerly tracking the progress of this technology with each new device (and mobile operating system) release...slowly improving until things finally arrived to a point where we felt the technology was good enough to present a really valuable solution/product.

Closing Summary

So we can go on and on - and there is a LOT more, but it would probably be better if you just test the live demo (close this window and the button is under the phone slider).

And, to summarize - We drew from 20 years of making websites (including some of the top, most innovative websites in the world), 50+ years of combined web development, internet/online, UI/UX design and internet marketing experience and a large amount of obsessive determination to create a custom coded, hand crafted product that is so complete it can be used out of the box or quickly adapted to practically any idea - thus making ThinΛpp BΛSE the most powerful, flexible website (and App) platform in the world.

Here are just some of the other features we took the liberty of pre-building into BΛSE:

Swipe / Touch capabilities
Real-time GPS Tracking
Full Screen “App” Mode
+App Icon Prompting
Web Services API

SMS Text Messages API
Robust Member Profiles
Authorize.net Payments
PayPal Payments Integration
E-Commerce Store
and much, much more.

Note: We opted not to tackle accelerometer, gyroscope, motion graphics, etc (ie. things commonly used in exercise and gaming Apps) as those don't make up the bulk of the Apps that are actually out there. However, with our new AppWrapr line all of those native features have or are currently being built in also!

OUR 2 THINΛPP SOLUTIONS

ThinΛpp BΛSE

Is built on a fully responsive website, which may just be the most impressive thing itself because it adapts to every screen, size and device and has all the latest technology from Javascript to JQuery, Ajax, Lightboxes, tons of Member based features, very visual based and clean, etc. And, of course comes with your very own App Icon/Version, which can be used and added to any device, mobile phone or mobile tablet.

ThinΛpp App Wrapper

This gives you the best of both worlds. We can put your BΛSE App(s) in the App Store(s) - and under our Developer Licenses, saving you another $99+. We have testing, deployment, hosting, backups, security and pretty much everything you need - down to a science.

Request An Invite or Talk To Someone

Close this screen and scroll to the bottom of the Overview page to enter your email to receive an invite to test our live App Wrapper out, which is also how we’ll let you test your Native App(s) out before they are submitted and deployed (ie. made live).
Note: Screenshots will be posted here shortly and we should have a couple of live Apps in the various App Stores within the next few weeks.

So when you become a ThinΛpp Owner - you're getting a $50,000+ App/Website for about $499 + how much ever you decide to add/spend in exclusive customizations. There's currently no value like this in the world.
Note: The $499 is essentially our "license" fee for doing all this work upfront and ahead of time - and it helps us continue to improve the ThinΛpp Platform, as well as support it. We think it's a very small fee to ask. We're basically taking all the guess work out of the entire process and giving people what they need vs what they can afford to pay for.

Call or email us now to get started
<1-844-484-4627 (1-844-4THINAPP) or contact@getthinapp.com

ThinΛpp Products

ThinΛpp is comprised of several different powerful technology solutions, which you can purchase seperately or as a combined solution.

1. ThinΛpp Platform - The Web App is our flagship solution/product (and is also a fully responsive website).

2. ThinΛpp Native Wrapper - This is a Native App (coded in the original App programming languages) that allows us to “wrap” any website or the ThinΛpp Platform and make it available for download from the App Stores.*

3. ThinΛpp Offline Platform - We’ve figured out how to make Web Apps and Native Apps that function completely offline (ie. without an internet connection).

4. ThinΛpp Hybrid App - this is (1 + 2 above) or (1 + 2 + 3 above) combined. 1 + 2 is our most popular solution/product.

Note: Close this window and enter your email at the bottom of the page to receive an invite to access and install the Native App Wrapr on your phone for live testing (note: within a couple of weeks we’ll have a live demo App in the App Stores for testing also).

Call or email us now to get started
1-844-484-4627 (1-844-4THINAPP) or contact@getthinapp.com

More about ΛppWrapr

The original goal of ΛppWrapr was to make a way for people who had awesome mobile sites to get them into the App Store(s), without having to spend a ton of money again just to have their website re-created as an App.

In the quest to achieve this goal, we ended up developing the most advanced Web App technology in the world. (Note: read below to learn more about Web Apps). And, for a short time, we even contemplated trying to challenge the dominance of “Native” Apps with our Web App technology.

However, after careful consideration of mostly not wanting to get squashed like a bug by either Apple or Google (or both) - and realizing the true value of Native Apps vs Web Apps, we decided to take a different approach. We realized that maybe Native Apps weren’t so bad afterall - and that, if we somehow took the best of both worlds, Native and Web, we could create an incredibly valuable solution.

So, that’s what we did! We merged Native and Web App technology to create a new kind of custom, hybrid app - and on top of that, we improved the process of making and submitting Apps - BIG time.

Our approach allows customers to save tons of money and time. Not only that, but our Apps are much easier and inexpensive to maintain and update. Simply, put we’ve created a smarter way of making Apps.

Call or email us now to get started
1-844-484-4627 (1-844-4THINAPP) or contact@getthinapp.com

How We Do It

Note: This approach below is optional and mostly meant to help pull/display important pages from your website inside your App (that you may not want to pay to fully re-create as an App feature). We also now have the ability to create fully native, mobile app content pages (ie. without the need for using any of your website pages!).

Image 1 (The Mobile Website)

Any responsive (ie. mobile-friendly) website typically will look like Image 1.

If your website isn’t responsive (ie. mobile-friendly; ie. a mobile website), then no worries, we can take care of that. However, if your website is mobile-friendly then we can do a quick (optional) upgrade/optimization to turn it into Image 2 (ie. a fully functioning Web App).

Image 2 (Web App Optimization)

Mostly what we’ll do to optimize your website (or mobile website):

1) Add some cushion to your top header, so when your website is opened inside a mobile app, the phone’s battery info and time don’t run into your logo, etc.

2) Make sure all your links stay inside of the Web App and App (ie. something most good developers don’t even know is possible).

3) Make external links bust outside of the App (otherwise the user could get trapped with no way to get back). Note: We have some premium upgrades that give you your own custom browser (sort of like Facebook) where when your users open an external link, they can simply hit the X to close it and still be right on the same page in your App.

4. And, last, but certainly not least - we make your mobile website - full screen! Meaning it'll take up the entire phone’s screen. Notice how in Image 1, there’s a top browser/URL bar - and a short-cut/bookmarks bar.

All of these things take away from the immersive experience - not to mention valuable screen real estate when your users are using your website.

Image 3 (Native Mobile App)

Finally, once your website or mobile website is web-app optimized and capable we can then open any of your web pages inside your custom, mobile app (Image 3) and they’ll look and feel just like they were built inside the App to begin with! (and of course for extra, we can even make your mobile website style identical to your mobile app, so no one can tell the difference!)

The best part is the optimization process to your website (or mobile site) is super fast (usually about 30 minutes on average) and optional; And, the rest of the App Wrapr design, compile and submission process usually takes less than 24 hrs (depending on our current orders/load; and not including App Store Approval Times, which are about another 48 hours on average).

Another interesting thing is - we don’t even need access to your website to wrap it IN an Λpp Wrapr. We just need to know the URL(s) of the pages you want to show inside your App. So if you have an existing web developer you can’t get in touch with - it doesn’t even matter!

Call or email us now to get started
1-844-484-4627 (1-844-4THINAPP) or contact@getthinapp.com