This month’s Founders Drinks will have a focus on building apps for the mobile and web platform – with another twist. There will be no pitches, instead we will have the event centered around a panel discussion that will tackle design, usability and monetization issues for apps build on the web, mobile or both. Appropriately called “Tales of the Web and Mobile Platform”.

As a developer, sometimes there’s the dilemma of whether to build for the web, for mobile or for both. A lot of it depends on the nature of the product and how it will be used by your users. Sometimes, it is good to have both the web and mobile versions of the product but other times just concentrating your resources on one platform would allow for a better product to be built. So when is it reasonable for a product to be on both mobile and web platforms and how will you justify the additional resources needed? What are the golden rules of design, usability and monetization when building only for the web or mobile? Do these rules change when you build for both? What are the synergies gained from building on both mobile and web?

These questions will be addressed by the panel at Founders Drinks and will be made out of founders from mobile and web related companies, developers and also consultants. Amazon Web Services will be hosting us again at their office at Capital Square with Chalkboard as supporting sponsor for food and beverages.

Event Details:

Date: September 27, 2011 (Tuesday)

Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm (Registration begins at 6:30pm)

Venue: Amazon Web Services, Capital Square, 23 Church Street, #10-01, 049481 Singapore (Gothere.sg)

Topic: Tales of the Web and Mobile Platform – Usability, Design and Monetization of Apps

Hashtag: #foundersdrinks

R.S.V.P here

Panelist (Being updated)

Chris Ismael is a developer at heart and an evangelist by profession. He managed the developer outreach for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform and also ran the BizSpark program in Singapore.

Sanjay Shivkumar calls himself the Business Development Ninja at Replaid, the company that brought Singapore the iOS app, Summon Auntie. He’s in charge of brainstorming ideas for the team.

Alvin Yap is the founder and CEO of TheMobileGamer. He also mentors at Founders Institute.

Alfred Siew is the editor and co-founder of tech blog Techgoondu.com, organizes UNWIRED conference and lectures at the National University of Singapore.

Chris Chandler is the Business Development VP at mig33 and co-founder of Mobile Monday Singapore.

Lichi Wu is the Business Development Director at Chalkboard.

Food and beverages will be provided so do R.S.V.P here to help us in planning and preparations.