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AppOnboard Acquire Buildbox - xSicKxBot - 06-14-2019

AppOnboard Acquire Buildbox

<div><p><a href="https://apponboard.com/">AppOnboard</a>, perhaps most famous for the technology powering the Google App Store “Try Now” functionality have just acquired <a href="https://www.buildbox.com/">BuildBox</a>.&nbsp; BuildBox is a nocode or codeless game engine that just released version 3.0 and <a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/05/22/BuildBox-Pricing-Changes.aspx">announced a pricing change</a>.&nbsp; The acquisition will not change the management or structure of the BuildBox team.</p>
<p>Details from the BuildBox <a href="https://www.buildbox.com/apponboard-acquires-buildbox/">blog announcement</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I’m extremely excited to announce the next chapter for Buildbox, and explain how we’re going to vastly expand our product, ability, and community going forward, but before I do that I believe it’s most important to discuss what is not changing.</p>
<p>With this acquisition, every single employee is staying with Buildbox, including myself and Nik.&nbsp; Buildbox will run independently — as it always has — while being able to grow much more quickly, and tap into the great resources that AppOnboard provides.&nbsp; Nik and I will still be focused 100% on vision and additions to complete line of our products. We will not be making any changes in product, besides improvements and additions we already have planned.</p>
<p>What we will have access too, that we did not before, is resources to help us hire more developers, content creators and more for Buildbox.&nbsp; You’ll see our development times vastly improve, and content creation for Buildbox speed up drastically.</p>
<p>AppOnboard is amazingly dedicated to not changing our vision, but helping us see it through to its largest potential.</p>
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<p>AppOnboard have also released a statement <a href="https://apponboard.com/blog/apponboard-and-buildbox/">available here</a>.&nbsp; BuildBox also released an email to all developers with the following details (thanks J.P for the heads-up!):</p>
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<p>A lot of changes are underfoot and all of them positive! Every employee from Buildbox that you know and love are all still here and will definitely be here for a long time. We’re the same Buildbox team that you know and love; it’s just that we have much more resources now to hire more developers, content creators, etc!<br />So what’s next for us?</p>
<ul>
<li>a FREE version of Buildbox</li>
<li>much better Android, ad network, and export support</li>
<li>new nodes and smart assets</li>
<li>a new smart asset store</li>
<li>roadmapping expansions for the MasterCollection software</li>
<li>lots and lots of Buildbox 3 Upgrades</li>
<li>… and so much more!</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>At face value, this development seems like a pure win for existing BuildBox developers.</p>
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