Our team is passionate about empowering mobile app creation. We help professionals at organizations from small nonprofit associations to large enterprises reach their goals without going through the pain, time, and cost of having to build an app from scratch.
That's why we created Yapp – a do-it-yourself platform that allows you to easily create, edit, and instantly publish engaging mobile apps that are compatible with both iOS and Android Devices.
Check out our features page to learn more ➔
Yapp was founded by Maria Seidman and Luke Melia in 2012
We are a small scrappy, successfully bootstrapped startup. Our team is constantly on the move, but always connected and working hard to make our product better. We don't have daily free lunches, we don't have masseuses or a concierge and we don't throw lavish parties. Yet without these "perks," we are having more fun and working harder than we've ever had and loving it.
Watch the Yapp story to see how it all started.
CEO & Co-Founder
New York, New York
Maria is Yapp's fearless leader. Formerly the Vice President of Digital at Warner Brothers, Maria founded Yapp in 2011 upon realizing how difficult it was to create a simple mobile app. In 2014, she won Entrepreneur Magazine's Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year and is passionate about women in tech, mobile trends, and spending time with her family.
CTO & Co-Founder
New York, New York
Luke leads all things tech on the team as the CTO and co-founder of Yapp. Previously he was the VP, Engineering at Weplay and Director of Software Development at Oxygen Media. In his free time he enjoys parkour, beach volleyball and teaching his two young daughters how to program.
Engineer
Portland, Oregon
Andrew is a full stack web developer for the team and proudly holds down Yapp's representation on the west coast. Before Yapp he led the planning and development at JustFor, a social-networking application.
Engineer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Matt is the newest member to join the Yapp crew as a Full Stack Developer and also has a background in Interface Design. In the past he's worked with mainly large corporations, international non-profits and national universities and co-founded his own company Owners-Up before joining the team. When not staring at a screen, you’ll find him playing in the dirt with his kids, reading science fiction and theology, raising chickens and making hot sauce
Maria Seidman was named 2014’s
Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year
by Entrepreneur magazine
CEO Maria Seidman on Your Business
discussing the hunt for qualified employees
and strengthening brands.
