<p>Here's a fun game to play. When you're next gathered with a few tech-savvy folks, ask them what the future of mobile is.</p><p>There's no definite answer, of course, but see how many suggest Web apps. I'm guessing the answer will be none, so you may be interested to hear the story of Koa.la: a VC-backed, photo-sharing startup that today announced a pivot to focus on Web apps, primarily for chat messaging service Kik.One million downloads in 24 hours</p><p>The move comes after Costume Party, an HTML5 app that Koa.la built on Kik's Cards content platform, surpassed one million downloads within 24 hours. The app playfully connects users with existing and new friends by letting them draw on each other avatar's using a Draw Something-like guessing game.</p><p>Costume Party currently boasts over four million users, 500,000 of which are active per day, and that success has seen it go from being a side project that the startup before today known as Albumatic worked on, to the company's full-time focus.</p><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/11/05/are-web-apps-the-future-of-mobile-vc-backed-startup-pivots-to-focus-on-kiks-html5-platform/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://pandodaily.com/2013/11/05/surprise-new-game-costume-party-finds-1m-players-in-first-22-hours-on-kik/">Surprise! New game Costume Party finds 1M players in first 22 hours... on Kik</a> (PandoDaily (blog))</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dzI3wYBUj40rKBMlXm3uUnat4LcGM&ned=us">4 additional articles.</a></p>