One Team US traditionally makes custom mobile apps for clients, but the 3-year-old firm is expanding more into retail apps with its newest offering,
Highway Dining.
The idea is that traveling motorists know what restaurants are coming up at the next exit, but not much after that. A family looking for the best option to satisfy everyone often wants to know what all of its options are in the near future. Highway Dining, which is priced at $0.99, does that.
"The app tells where you are right now but also where you will be in 20 minutes and 30 minutes and tells you where you can eat," says Kris Gazley, director of business development for
One Team US. "It's quite useful."
The Troy-based company has produced 250 mobile apps for Apple products and another 80 for Android. The company currently has four in the process of being developed, including one that a local plastic surgeon plans to use to educate patients on their options.
"We're always putting out more apps," Gazley says. "We always have three or four in development."
One Team US currently employs 30 people after hiring a dozen over the last year. Gazley attributes that expansion to organic growth from good old word-of-mouth marketing.
Source: Kris Gazley, director of business development for One Team US
Writer: Jon Zemke
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