Facebook Apps the Coolest Platform on the Net

Excited to see 3 cool Facebook Apps Developers in a panel, everyone has been talking about Facebook Apps all day long at Community Next Conference. (live blogging to share their experience, which is my summary of a lively discussion)

Joe Green’s Facebook App is Causes, raised $200K. Built on Ruby on rails, $100K on servers.
Joe Suk ’s site is Mychurch.com, social network for churches, 6 apps , besthas 200K users. 3-4 days per App, 2 weeks for one with deeper integration to Facebook.
Adam Kalamchi 225,000 uses for his App launched Boozmail 2 weeks ago.

Booze-mail, Adam says he knows nothing about users, he is the coolest guy in the whole conference by his attitude in he panel!!! I will take the risk of sounding like a web2.0 geek will say I find Adam more promising, letting the market drive, because I can see how it is so aligned with Facebook users to just use Booze-mail to communicate with friends like poking your friend on Facebook.

Adam can scale it later adding any kind of features.

Alec Peters (audience) asked has anyone monetized their Facebook App? Cause is the only app thats making revenues.
Facebook makes it easy to scale Facebook Apps adoption without thinking of revenue models. Everyone is focused on growth, which according to Joe Green’s is the best strategy to grow Facebook as a palatform with smart developers building on it.

I can’t agree more, there will be a phase when the developers will develop a revenue strategy once they have a userbase.

moderated by Noah