As a consultant and writer, I need to juggle a lot of different deadlines and demands. I've found that the best app for me is Asana. It's customizable, so I can adapt it to every project while maintaining a cohesive calendar with all of my deadlines. That said, I also pair Asana with an old-fas...
Very interesting concept - I could see how parents would certainly gravitate towards a feature like this. So, freemium apps, models, features are quite common of course and people have grown accustomed to most applications or platforms at least offering a trial period (as you do.) But, if you w...
To a large extent, the skills required to develop an app have become commoditized over the past few years. Also available, are a large number of templates to kickstart app development (specially games). That being said there are some key issues which differentiate successful apps: User Acquisiti...
First define "successful" and make sure others would see it as the same. If growth is stagnating, that's not what success looks like in an app. The only way you have a chance at selling it at anything above "fire sale prices" is you can say that you have enough actively engaged users, which i...
The standard procedure is to sign a mutual non-disclosure agreement with whoever you are disclosing your idea to, before you hire the firm. Once your product is built or is in the process, you have the option to patent or copyright it. Here's my article that gives the complete details on both:...
Prove that it'll make money: 1. Call real people that would pay for it and talk to them about their needs. Do they describe what you're planning to do? 2. Build a simple email capture page (use something like LeadPages or OptimizePress to keep it cheap/easy) and write marketing copy to capture ...
Using Google Places API and storing the results in your own database likely violates the terms of service. Likewise, you are limited to the number of calls per day to the API. If you expect users to appreciate (and pay for) the software you are generating, you should do likewise. Go with the l...
The quickest way is to hire a private teacher to work with you hands-on. That's also a little spendy. If you're good at self-motivation, there are thousands of tutorials on various app-building techniques that you can walk through. They exist as articles, videos, interactive projects — there ar...
Great at the age of 22. Your concepts is really nice and extraordinary, it might you face a lot of compositors already but still you do your revolution your way. --------------------------- About value of startup. If your are calculating your startup >> Investment is the 1st part + Estimated yr...
Hi: Congrats on arriving at this important juncture in your business. Regardless of how you decide to compensate the development team (or any other employees/contractors), your most valuable asset at this point is your vision -- rallying others around conquering a big, broad challenge is stickie...