Appoet Inc.

<p>Appoet was founded on the belief that ebooks are an intermediary media between physical literature and mobile applications for storytelling. By focusing on the multidimensional capacity of mobile technologies, traditional humanities become immersive experiences that no longer lend themselves to introspection, but community engagement. We work with organizations, university departments, institutions, musicians, writers, photographers, and filmmakers to turn their creative vision into a mobile app. These aren’t applications for recipes or yoga tips, but fine art and media made to evoke and inspire. Our first application, What We Mean, is a poetry chapbook of love letters written by the author’s grandparents during WWII. The book reads as the final conversation in poetry between a grandchild and his grandparents. Users of the application were then able to produce their own poems to share with friends via email. Published solely for iOS devices, the app went on to win accolades from The Guardian, Corona SDK, DoubleMesh, and is even a selected download at a few libraries across America. Our upcoming application funded through Kickstarter is Infused the GPS-enabled magazine. Infused allows users to geocache their creative work as a hotspot using their phone. When other Infused users walk through that hotspot they receive a push notification that prompts them to engage with the geocached work. All of the content is user curated, so real world communities end up building localized digital magazines of consistently improving content. Our latest project involves building a weather application that provides poems to readers based on metrological data for DePaul University. As you can see, it is Appoet’s drive to combine the humanities with the digital that inspires us to create new and exciting platforms for media, storytelling, and publishing.&nbsp;</p>