Willow, Frayers & Cabbages Blog: May 2015

Saturday 16 May 2015

I'm on the Qtsy App

Morning all, My good friend Joe Inglis,

(most of you will know him from the TV),

sent me the link to his cool new Qtsy App to try.

What is it you ask ? It's a Free pet-show-in-your-pocket program that you enter fun pet shows, win prizes and judge competitions.

Me and mummy have been having so much funny judging all the different photos and competitions...

"Truth is my paws are sore, but I'm addicted to it "

So far mummy's only added me, as she should, but she's also going to add Frayer to it now. (I don't know why coz she won't beat me!!!).

Woof Willow

About Qtsy

(courtesy of Joe Inglis)

50,000 reasons why Qtsy could be the next big thing

What’s the next big thing for pets? Well if the last 2 weeks are anything to go by, it looks like it could be Qtsy, the fun pet show app, which has seen an amazing 50,000 votes cast since going live on the app store at the end of March.

‘We’ve been amazed by the response,’ says founder Joe Inglis. ‘We hoped that pet lovers would enjoy it but the amount of photos and votes we’ve seen since launching has been far greater than we expected.’

Qtsy allows pet owners to enter pictures of their pets into fun online pet shows, vote on other pictures and win points and prizes. The app hosts a range of shows, some just for fun and some with prizes include pet products and cash.

Unlike other online pet shows, the voting on Qtsy uses a unique ‘best of 3’ interface where users are asked to pick a favourite from 3 pictures at a time. Originally designed to make the voting easy and as fair as possible, it has turned out to be the really addictive part of the app, with some users voting thousands of times. Partly down to the attraction of seeing lots of cute pictures of pets, this addictiveness also comes from the element of competitiveness in the app, with users gaining higher judging levels and higher weighting placed on their votes the more they vote.

‘In the first week alone we had one user voting over 3,000 times,’ explains Joe, ‘which was great, but it meant we had to rethink our judging levels as we hadn’t anticipated getting this kind of dedication from our users!’

With such positive early reaction from pet-lovers, the Qtsy team are now looking at how they develop Qtsy - and with a growing user-base and app with a built-in voting system, they’re using Qtsy to crowdsource the answers.

‘We decided to set up a ‘What Next?’ show in the app, and invite users to vote on our suggestions, and add their own,’ says Joe. ‘It’s going to be great to have such direct input from our users as we improve and build Qtsy.’

You can download Qtsy now from the app store, and it is coming soon to Google Play for Android devices.
Find out more at www.qtsy.com.

For more information contact Joe via joe@qtsy.com