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# AppSeed
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/appseed/
- Published: 2013-09-22T07:21:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:00:41.000Z
- Description: An iPhone toolkit turns app sketches into working prototypes.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Technology, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25, #author-change-2025-05-28

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When brainstorming an idea, creative professionals tend to quickly jot everything down so nothing gets lost. But they often forget how hard it can be to turn a messy sketch into a sellable concept, without first building a prototype. And, when the product is an app, things get even harder.   
  
Now Adam Leon and Greg Goralski have devised a solution that enables app developers to test and showcase their ideas. AppSeed is an iPhone toolkit that easily turns any sketch into a working prototype. After taking pictures of their drawings with a smartphone camera, designers can crop and assign different functions to each image. For example, they can transform a sketched-out box into a map, or they can connect to a Twitter account by simply tapping a drawn button. To this end, AppSeed uses [openCV](http://opencv.org/?ref=protein.xyz) (Open Source Computer Vision), a library of programming functions that allows developers to choose how an app interprets an isolated element.   
  
Leon and Goralski are hoping to raise funds for their project via [Kickstarter](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/appseed/appseed-turn-sketches-into-functioning-prototypes?ref=protein.xyz).