Building a mobile app involves a lot of work, a lot of sleepless nights and thousands of dollars spent on designers, developers, and marketing. It isn't nice when at the end of the journey you end up with 30,000$ debt and 30 monthly users. So, let's talk about some actions you can do to make sure your app has a potential of making you some good money. But before we...
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Today I Learned – a series of articles where I share short notes about the things I learned and found interesting. You can expect information about new tools, libraries, tips & tricks and interesting articles I found. Enjoy! CefSharp – [.NET library] https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp It’s a .NET library which lets you embed Chromium Browser in .NET apps. In my case, I used it to create WPF application which did some data...
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In the previous post of the series, we discussed the importance of researching your competition. Now that you have a proper background check, you can jump into the next step – defining your app functionality. How not to do it There are two types of mistakes when people start bringing their app ideas into life: The Writer approach The Designer approach The writer would sit down and start writing lengthy...
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When I first started my company in 2005, I wasn’t a freelancer - I was designing and creating apps for Windows Mobile platform and selling them directly to customers (14.95$ for an alarm clock!). I loved it! Being fully my own boss I could experiment with new stuff, spend countless hours on ‘meaningless’ details and just have 100% fun while still making a good income. Times changed, Windows Mobile died,...
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Some time ago I installed RescueTime and started tracking how I spend my work time and if I could do any better. One of the things that surprised me, is how much time I spend in 'Communication' category. In the past, I've spent even 10-15% of the time there, but now I managed to get these numbers to fit between 6-10%. Here is a screen of my report from December...
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In my work, I often get approached by friends who share this brilliant app idea with me and ask for an opinion. When I sit down with them and ask the details it turns out that they haven't figured it out yet and in general are quite surprised that so much work is involved. I can understand that my friends don't have this knowledge, but unfortunately, I see this scenario...
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One of most often struggles I see in my freelancing work is the problem of fixed price projects. The very popular scenario I see when I negotiate a project is this: the client provides basic specification, some wireframes or designs and asks – how much will it cost? In the past I would sit down for about 2-3 hours, break the project into smaller tasks and do a PERT estimate...
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The short answer is: Yes, we do. I really can’t see a reason why you wouldn’t want to spend some resources on adding them to your app. However most of the time I have to work some extra time to convince my clients that they should add some budget to analytics setup. They know what they’d like to create, they have the wireframes, they have spent all the time thinking about...
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Last week I ran my first marathon race. After 4 months of preparation, more than 100 hours of training and over 50,000 calories burnt, I’ve accomplished one of my goals for this year. The race was a great experience; however, there were some hard moments at which I started thinking about how to actually compare a marathon with building a business or a career, or managing a project. There are...
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Having spent 10 years working as a mobile developer and consultant, I want to share what I’ve learned about managing a team of developers. For starters, let’s talk about several symptoms of bad project management. Most of my career I’ve been working as a freelancer, and these examples are based on remote type of work. However, I’m sure that they also relate to projects handled in-house. Do you remember these...
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Family 1st! Mobile Consultant since 2006 (iOS, Windows Phone). Love working on my work organization and boosting my productivity. Tennis/squash player. Runner.
Building a mobile app involves a lot of work, a lot of...
Today I Learned – a series of articles where I share short...
In the previous post of the series, we discussed the...
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