Comments on: GetLeaflets: Must-Have iPhone App

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:39:03 +0000

I’m one of the engineers behind Mojits, and wanted to say that Leaflets looks great, and the original content is both well chosen and tastefully done.

As Jeff mentions, Mojits differ’s from Leaflets in its primary goal: Mojits aims to create a user community allowing you to find the best iPhone widgets based on other user’s feedback.

We admire Leaflet’s creation of original widgets, and have always intended on creating our own in good time. In the meantime, keep an eye on http://www.Mojits.com for a new, easier to use interface in the near future, as well as numerous innovations and new features.

Kudos to Leaflets for helping to push the iPhone experience forward.

By: Brad Dolman

Brad Dolman — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:54:39 +0000

We just launched our public beta for a similar site today, Launchrz. We also allow you to create your own personalized home page with the applications you choose on it and allow registered users to rate various the various iPhone applications as well. Check it out at http://www.launchrz.com

By: Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:19:56 +0000

Nice work, excellent execution… the major thing missing here is support for OPML import. I’d have to say with that, it might end up my default RSS reader on the iPhone. May also want to look at personalization-it would be nice if the user could customize with the ability to add/remove feeds to the top level menu.

By: WiGab

WiGab — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:06:34 +0000

Leaflets - iPhone Mobile Browsing…

Just launched today, Leaflets is a mobile web-based applications that you access via the iPhone web browser….

By: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:22:15 +0000

Disclosure: I work for Blue Flavor.

That having been said, I wanted to point out the key difference between our product, Leaflets, and products like mojits.com and mockdock.com. While those sites aggregate third-party apps in one place, we have built out own apps. We have a great deal of experience in development of both traditional and mobile web applications, and we’ve leveraged that experience into a set of nine (with more to come!) original applications — many of which piggyback off services you may already use (Flickr, Upcoming, del.icio.us, etc.).

Those other sites are an entirely different thing. They are provide a sort-of “launcher” for apps other people have written. That’s not to say they’re not useful — they may be. But we are writing apps — they are providing a place to launch apps from.

By: the Grin

the Grin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:50:43 +0000

http://www.iphonapps.com for a similar (but more primitive) idea…

By: Tina

Tina — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:36:42 +0000

Interesting will be watching to see how well this does.

By: Faisal

Faisal — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:36:35 +0000

Now we know why apple released Safari for Windows.

By: iPhone_humper

iPhone_humper — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:50:32 +0000

This is just like whoreallycares.com except it only targets the few nerdtrons who camped out overnight for an expensive and limited device.

snore..

By: uday

uday — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:48:15 +0000

I tried this on safari 3 for windows xp and every time I get on the sign up screen to type my email, safari crashed.

I looked into the error report and looks like some compat issues.

By: Yeah.. they did go green

Yeah.. they did go green — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:41:57 +0000

does this kind of articles really keep building traffic?

By: Christian Arca

Christian Arca — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:35:30 +0000

Taking a look at GetLeaflets, it is definitely the best of the pack. I feel that mockdock runs rather slow and mojit lacks a user friendly interface. GetLeafLets packs everything in once.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:33:43 +0000

Am I missing something? Other than the weak detection ( onload is/isnot iPhone ) I don’t understand how this is iPhone ONLY? AJAX renders quite nicely in Opera Mini, which is available for anyphone.

By: Smith288

Smith288 — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:18:56 +0000

Does the iPhone cure cancer?

By: John Mills

John Mills — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:10:45 +0000

Shouldn’t it be “and drinks tonight at Seattle” instead of “and drinks tonight if Seattle”? I know its obvious but sometimes we all make mistakes!!!!

By: AppMarks

AppMarks — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:59:03 +0000

If you like that check out http://appmarks.com

By: Nathan Kaiser

Nathan Kaiser — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:57:28 +0000

Thanks for the lead. How did you like our humble little town?

By: emad

emad — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:53:08 +0000

sounds like http://www.appleopolis.com

By: josh

josh — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:46:35 +0000

mojits.com is also worth a look.

By: NotSteve

NotSteve — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:34:16 +0000

Isn’t the iPhone so perfect it doesn’t need such applications?
And why they called them applications, while it is just a website?

By: LP

LP — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:23:36 +0000

They need to get themselves some leaflets.mobi

By: Al

Al — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:16:56 +0000

Mike — I see you still need to get the hang of that iPhone keyboard!

By: neil

neil — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:13:38 +0000

Check out http://www.mockdock.com - similar idea

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:13:37 +0000

Is the Iphone marketplace going to be able to compare to the FaceBook widget market place?

- Face book widgets have their own VC’s now….

- will Iphone have the same? and opinions?

By: Alaska Miller

Alaska Miller — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:13:21 +0000

In Seattle, not if.