 Hello, hi, I'm Alex Williams, a Silicon Angle here at Node Summit on theCUBE. We do tech event coverage like no one else. I'm here today with a fine gentleman from, what's the name of your company? Can you tell us a little about who you are and what you're doing here? Sure, my name is Sachin Anand. I am the founder and CEO of WebMobi. WebMobi is a cloud-based app platform for creating smartphone and tablet applications using HTML5 and Node.js. So we enable creation of scalable mobile apps that can work across all different smartphones, platforms, as well as available via cloud-based URL. So we were talking a little bit before you came on the show and you're talking about the app creation. I mean, actually building apps. Where is that marketplace right now? Can you tell us a little bit about where the market is right now? I mean, we've seen this real increase in apps and people are deploying them by the millions. What is it that's missing? So, HTML5 has been getting a lot of traction since 2011 and now we are at a transition point where now we have three different smartphone platforms which are getting a lot of traction and developers really want to create apps which are working with a single code base across all these three platforms and the other legacy platforms as well. So I think that that inflection point is there where now we'll see a lot of transition to HTML5-based development approach where we can use some of the SaaS platforms like WebMobi to create apps that can work across platforms. So how does your platform work? It sounds like you have a GUI for creating the GUI, so is it sort of a drag and drop application creation environment? Yes, so what happens is you go to our website webmobi.com, create an account login and then you have a UI editor. So in the UI editor, as you can create a UI which where as you are creating the UI you can see how it's going to look like on different phones and then you can define connectors which connect to our Node.js base back end to create a scalable app. For example, you have 1000 users that you want to register so you can define a user object and that you can link with our front end UI. And then we have also built certain connectors like for most of the popular web services so you can add a social component, Twitter, YouTube, et cetera and then you can actually create an app rapidly with all these three things together and these apps are really scalable so they can cater not only to say 1000 users but also to million users because we are using cloud-based approach and create apps from there. What are, how are you using Node.js? So Node.js, what we are, so we have on our back end is entirely based on Node.js so we create these REST API endpoints that allows a web developer to create a client-side JavaScript code that is working across all platforms so we use those REST APIs that are talking to our Node.js back end and using that. And plus we also using connectors, those connectors are also talking to other web services using Node.js. Why did you choose Node.js? Node.js, so I mean like in terms of, we are a startup, at least a startup and one of the big challenges is to unify the development environment where we are using HTML5 on the client side and HTML5 on JavaScript and then we also want to use the same technology on the server side and it really enables us to scale faster where somebody can, where our team and myself we do development both on the client side as well as we can switch over to the server side so that is one advantage and then Node.js is really in terms of performance it's really optimal, asynchronous and really fast to deploy and some of the tools that are coming up are also like Express.js is really awesome and it's really fast to develop compared to some of the legacy technologies. How complex are the apps that people can make with WebMobi? Can you give us an example of something that someone's built? Sure, so we have built certain apps like for example one of the apps that is there is a mobile app where user account is created and then user can upload their content whether it's a photo or videos and they're stored in the backend and then it can be accessed via the mobile device and then you can do certain things with those apps so that is one use case where you can have a cross-platform content access mobile portal where you can access that content across from different mobile devices that is one use case and then of course I think one other huge use cases where even to the point where a lot of publishers have the existing web content and they want to have a mobile presence of the web content so they can decide this is what they want to have on the mobile and they can import that content from using their existing web content so that is the second use case How much programming background does somebody need to have in order to use this? Do they need to know JavaScript? So that's a good point so we have a different tiered business model as well as we have different levels of usage so for say for small and medium business they can just use our pre-built components and create mobile apps those mobile apps will just be talking to existing web services and they might have a certain cookie cutter approach like storing form data etc that they can rapidly build but then for medium business to enterprise level we have Node.js components that they can further develop and upload on our server and that requires definitely JavaScript and knowledge mostly on the client side and because we are using a package of hybrid apps or packaging those client side JavaScript so that enables the developers to just know JavaScript and not too much focus on the mobile specific intricacies So we just have a few minutes left perhaps we could just end this conversation with giving us a little bit summary of what's next for your company are you seeking funding? What are your plans for the coming year? Great, so we launched our paid service today itself so we want to scale and further grow and acquire customers both at the enterprise and business level and definitely we are looking for funding to further expand and rapidly acquire businesses we also want to focus on certain verticals that allow us to create a niche and that we are going to be announcing more in the next couple of months and focus on that and then expand from there Well great, well thank you very much for taking some time Thanks a lot We appreciate it Thanks a lot