With less than two weeks remaining to enter, Vodafone today announced some new top entrants to its Vodafone App Star competition. A rather cosmopolitan mix from across Europe has seen some stellar new mobile apps pushing location-based services to find and share anything from new friends and upcoming music gigs to the nearest chemist and even your own car!
The Vodafone App Star competition is open until 31st March, to any developer across the world. Recent entries saw well known developers such as Golden Gekko and Aperto Move now going head to head with independent rising mobile app stars like Gino Micacchi, creator of Mobnotes. Developers can choose to submit their app into one of eight markets across UK, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal or Spain.
“We’ve been really impressed by the quality of apps that have been submitted to our competition. We’re still seeing some great entrants as developers across Europe continue to share their apps with us right up to the deadline. It’s been particularly great to see so many local apps being created for specific markets,” said Lee Epting, Director of Content Services at Vodafone Group. “Clearly there is a lot of talent out there among the international developer community – we want to showcase these great ideas and properly reward the very best players for their innovation and vision.”
The best entry from each country will receive €25,000. The second and third best entries will receive €15,000 and €10,000. The winning entries from each market will then progress to a second round of the competition, where the top eight apps will be put to the public vote. The app with the highest number of public votes will win an additional €75,000, with the second place app receiving €25,000.
Or in other words: if you can code apps, what are you waiting for?! Get an app written and submitted, and potentially claim your share of some really decent prize money!
Developers can enter the Vodafone App Star competition here.