Yapp

At Yapp, our mission is to empower people to interact and express themselves.  We aim to do this by democratizing the creation of mobile apps so that anyone – even if they lack technology or design skills or resources and time – can create a mobile app for parts of their lives that matter to them. 

Yapp was founded by Maria Seidman and Luke Melia. A recent transplant to NY, it was Maria’s turn to organize her WINY Group.  Frustrated with the email spamming and Facebook posts, she scoured the web for an easy way to create a good-looking mobile application.  When she couldn’t find one, she created Yapp.  No stranger to apps, before starting Yapp, Maria launched and ran a variety of businesses (include mobile) in her role as Head of Business Development and New Business Incubation for Warner Bros. Digital.

After more than a decade of building products for women (as Director of Technology at Oxygen) and groups (as CTO and GM of WePlay), when Luke heard about Yapp he instantly grasped the vision and plotted to create a Yapp for the Gotham Ruby conference, his volleyball team, his kid’s birthday, his Family reunion…