NEW YORK — Launching a new application is never easy, as TPM’s own PollTracker app developers can attest, but the launch story of New York City-based Ministore may take the cake when it comes to sheer adversity: The new iPhone app, which seeks to allow users the ability to rapidly list for-sale items directly from their smartphone by taking a picture of said objects and posting them on to a user’s social networks, was coincidentally approved by the Apple App Store on Monday, October 29, the same night that superstorm Sandy made landfall on the city, where Ministore’s co-founders live and work.
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