#minimalviableproduct

[ketul99]

Introduction to MVP APK: Essentials of Mobile App Development

Explore the key principles of MVP APK in mobile app development. Understand how to develop a basic version of your app to test market viability and gather user feedback.

[marketing-adaptiveus]

is a technique of Agile Analysis Certification(AAC) from IIBA. Minimal Viable Product is used to avoid cost and risk associated with developing the wrong product...

[marketing-adaptiveus]

is a technique of Agile Analysis Certification(AAC) from IIBA. Minimal Viable Product is used to avoid cost and risk associated with developing the wrong product...

[marketing-adaptiveus]

is a technique of Agile Analysis Certification(AAC) from IIBA. Minimal Viable Product is used to avoid cost and risk associated with developing the wrong product...

[premayogan]

5 Mobile App Development Tips For Startups

It has also led to a huge demand for mobile app development across the world. However, the cost of developing mobile applications doesn’t come any cheaper. Without good considerations, mobile app development can be a very expensive process. Below are the best tips that can be used to reduce the mobile app development cost without affecting the quality of the mobile application.

Open Source Code

Mobile app open source libraries are gaining popularity and most startups opt to use them than developing an application from scratch. They provide a pre-built structure and allows companies to customize it to fit the business requirements. There are a thousand of open source libraries to choose from in the internet and developers can select the best to start with. Using these libraries significantly reduces the development hence save your pocket a lot of cash.

Minimal Viable Product (MVP)

MVP is a prototype of your mobile application in development. It contains the basic functionalities: user interface and the business logic. MVP allows you to assess the reaction of the target audience by giving them a prototype of the actual application. Thereafter you can proceed to implement the fully functional application and release it to the market. Provided, the target audience has accepted and is willing to pay for it. Minimal viable product controls the cost of developing a mobile application and gives you an insight into the future health of your application.

Simple Designs

Most startupa often come up with a model of the application before venturing into actual coding. The model design of the application will dictate the cost and the time you will spend in the development process. A significant way of reducing the mobile app development cost is to use simple designs. This requires companies to be creative and innovative enough to create simple and beautiful designs to fit the application requirements.

Outsourcing

Outsourcing is very popular among startups today. Most app owners would prefer to hire a mobile app development team to develop a product for them. Many such will offer competitive prices in order gain more clients. Outsourcing a development job to a firm just because of their lower prices can be very expensive. As most use substandard development methods to develop an application with the primary aim of making money. Therefore, you should put in a lot of considerations before selecting which app development firm. Getting it right will save you a lot of money.

Hybrid Frameworks

A hybrid mobile app development framework enables a mobile developer to write code once and deploy the applications on the main platforms. The resulting mobile application will be able to run on Android and IOS platforms. The code can also be used for progressive mobile applications. This saves the cost of developing the same applications for each different framework. There are a lot of mobile hybrid frameworks including; Xamarin React Native Ionic Framewok PhoneGap Intel XDK amongst others

Other Tips

Take advantage of DevOps (development and operations). The goal of DevOps is to build, test and produce applications faster and reliably. Focus solely on the user’s application requirements and specifications.  

Conclusion

Mobile applications have transformed our lives. With mobile, you can do everything you want with just a click of a button. There is a great future that comes with mobile applications. The above tips will help companies to develop budget friendly applications to meet the needs and demands of their customers. We cannot simply shy away from mobile application development because it is expensive. Instead, we should minimize the cost that comes with it and develop mobile applications. Read the full article

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Chunkybrain.com might not have ever happened.

About a year ago, at lunch, I was talking about an idea with the one and only Jia Jiang (the rejection guy)

The convo went like this:

Jia: you should make it an app

me: but I want people to be off their phones

Jia: but the fact is people are on their phones all the time and it can be a resource too. Just think about it.  you need to get a domain name soon though

me: alright. I’ll think about it, won’t hurt to just look into it

That night I went on godaddy.com, every single f’n name that I wanted was taken. But I could buy it for a steal at $1500,  some names were $30,000 and up. F’ME!!!!!!

EXCEPT ONE was $12.99- CHUNKYBRAIN.COM (ya, baby)

I call Jia super excited: I got the domain name!!!! It’s chunkybrain!!!!

Jia: oh...um....well it can be a  placeholder name for now...you can always buy a better name later

FML!! I think the Rejection guy just rejected my domain name.

BUT guess what?! The more I said Chunkybrain, the more I liked it. I decided to do some impromptu a/b testing and asked more people what comes to mind when they hear chunkybrain.  Most responses consisted of

“I like how Chunky means something good when paired with brain,”

“makes me think of a really smart brain that’s growing”

When I told them Chunkybrain was going to have focused meditation mp3 streaming and downloads to help people find relief from everyday shit...I think I won them over.

So now my idea has evolved into building a website and an app, next blog will be about some tough decisions I had to make