Decided to enter the contest, last minute, let's see how it goes!
I see that zaps also show earnings like a steemit blog does. This accomplishes even greater marketing. It'll intrigue and even positively shock people, to know they can earn for a simple zap. Everyone will feel they have a chance at some bucks and join!
This and many things about zappl is great for steem!
Feature Request
1. For desktop version, allow live animated stream (live feeds or snippets etc) incessantly streaming price of steem, latest zaps under #news, latest events on steemit etc, so newbies can also be directed to steemit and steemians can always keep up with steemit events while on zappl.
The desktop real-estate needs to be maximized, so that it looks more dense!
2. Scheduled-posts feature may come in handy! Since you have the draft-feature already, then it looks viable to just add the schedule-feature.
3, Allow for some means to allow straight sign-up using social media accounts like Facebook, twitter, google plus etc in addition to steemconnect for steemit users!
4. Allow custom-profile design, like colored-theme, custom-fonts etc, to make it colorful and fun!
5. I am not very sure if zappl is like steepshot and busy.org where posts from those platform also shows on steemit! If zappl is like that then awesome! You can leave the submit story in existence, to give steemians another option from which they can post on steemit incase steemit, busy and chainbb are down. For none steemians who try that "submit story" option, they will be given the option to sign up using steemconnect! People who got to know of steem through zappl can eventually and seamless find out that they can also blog and earn.