How Can I Develop a Profitable App?
Growing your mobile app idea from concept to prototype may be relatively straightforward, but monetizing your app once it’s on the market is a totally different ballgame. In a mobile ecosystem where well over 90 percent of apps fail to generate significant revenue, any mobile app developer with industry experience can tell you that monetization […]
The next Unicorn Sharing Economy App Will Sell By-Products
By-products are a huge problem in the global economy, on both the large and small scale. Six hot dogs in a package and eight buns in a bag? Chances are the leftovers get wasted. A plane crosses the Atlantic with ten empty seats? You can practically smell the money burning. Basecamp co-founder Jason Fried wrote […]
3 Growth Hacking Tips to Grow Your Mobile App Startup
Growth hacking has quickly become a popular buzzword in the startup community. Unfortunately, it’s not necessarily become popular for all the right reasons. Before we get into our tips, let’s dispel the biggest myth many mobile app developers have about growth hacking: the idea that it’s “easy.” When an iPhone app developer hears the word […]
Luxury Services the next Frontier for On-demand App Startups
Disagreements between on-demand startup giant Uber and their legions of independent contractors may be dominating the startup conversation as we move into 2016, but at the same time luxury on-demand services are quietly racking up a significant market share — both for iPhone app developers and the workers participating. Take the NYC iPhone app developers at […]
How to Validate Your App Idea Before You Start Developing
We get dozens of messages a day asking the same question: “will my app idea succeed?” The answer is actually simpler to find than you might think, but there’s a catch: iPhone app development companies don’t know the answer. Sure, NYC mobile app developers can make an educated guess based on the successes and failures […]
3 Rules for Success with On-demand & Sharing Economy Apps
On-demand and “sharing economy” services are some of the hottest trends in the startup world this year, with companies all over the US scrambling to become the next Uber or Postmates. Naturally, competition is getting stiff as the scene gets more crowded — leaving many a failed on-demand iPhone app developer wondering what they could […]
In the near future, Uber may offer on-demand helicopters
The latest rumor blazing through Silicon Valley is the possibility of a partnership between mobile app development company superstars Uber and a European aircraft company called Airbus. Why does that matter? It matters because if Uber enters the airspace market, you could be hailing a helicopter ride the same way you hail an Uber taxi […]
Uber Out-Maneuvers Sidecar in Transporation App Marketplace
It’s been over a month since Sidecar began closing their doors, marking the end of their stand against Uber with a eulogistic blog post to the company website. While Sidecar’s mobile app development team has been second to none when it comes to innovative solutions to consumer problems, the company still struggled to gain traction […]
Facebook Positioning Itself as “WeChat of the West”
Android app developers in the Asian market have been capitalizing on chat apps for years, combining the benefits of social connectivity, the decline of SMS, and the desire for simplicity to turn their chats apps (WeChat, Line, etc.) into one-stop-shops for everything from paying for services to shopping for clothes. Now San Francisco iPhone app […]
Service, the Customer Intermediary App, Launches for iOS
User retention is notoriously difficult in the iOS app industry, where over 80 percent of users open an app once and never come back. So the claim from newly-launched customer service iOS app Service that their user retention hovers over 25 percent is understandably turning heads among New York iPhone app development companies, and drawing […]