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2015: The Big Highlights

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2015 it’s (almost) a wrap! With the year coming to an end, it’s the perfect time to look back on what we’ve achieved. With design remaining at the core of our strategy , that doesn’t mean we didn’t innovate in many other directions… Ready for a flashback?
We started the year with the release of GoodBarber 3.5 which allowed us to provide our users with a clearer and always more user-friendly interface for making Beautiful Apps. It was only the beginning though, as 2015 was one of our busiest years yet in terms of new releases. 
With the purpose of having a clutter-free backend in mind, we decided to introduce our Add-Ons store where you can now find a large collection of extra features to "add" to your Beautiful App, such as our White label Add-On , Advanced CMS Management Add-On or Monetization Add-Ons.

To shake up your business, we introduced the up to date concept of geo alerts, with our Geofencing Add-On and the iBeacons Add-On . It seems these features sparked our users curiosity!
Geofencing brings us to the event industry and our new and improved MCMS events section. You can now create a calendar directly from the GoodBarber backend and, while we were at it, we figured we’d treat you to new events templates to better promote your events.

On top of that, we made our Apps more social with the release of our Authentication Add-On which opened the paved the way for more advanced user features, such as our User Group Add-On or Community Add-On. 
And now, back to our Beautiful design moto. We refreshed our very popular Grid and Swipe mobile navigation modes , because what use would a Beautiful App be without a User Experience that delivers?

Of course we don’t plan on stopping there. Once again this year we got to meet with our customers during many events (AppDays ,The Internet Festival , Todi Appy Days , the Collision Conf , the Mobile World Congress …) and we were able to get a sense of some of your expectations. It is our hope that we can fulfill some of your wishes next year.
In the meantime, we hope that 2015 was a fulfilling year for you and your endeavors. It’s now time to enjoy the last of the Holiday Season before setting out to do great things for the new year!
 
See you in 2016 GoodBarbers ;)

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