The shift from building products to platforms
Photo by Alper Çuğun People use the terms product and platform interchangeably and the latter has turned into the new trendy catchphrase by entrepreneurs. Investors such as Peter Thiel have voiced their skepticism about the platform concept and call it a buzzword. When we talk about software, products and platforms refer to two diffe
Should a startup outsource product development?
Photo by Epic Bets Let’s say you have an idea; there are several ways to execute the product development: 1. Build it yourself You are a developer with $30,000 in the bank, you can probably pay your bill for a year at $2500/month before tax. You can do 100 hours of coding per month and […]
The cost of app update is an uncomfortable topic
Photo by David Blackwell When we buy an app from the app store, the updates are generally free. When we use a SAASÂ (software as a service) website, they are constantly updating and improving their features and usability and you will get them either for free or in exchange for a relatively low monthly subscription fee. […]
Why Mobile First and Web APIs matter so much from now on
Statistic provided by Statista The mobile traffic on the web will increase 8 times by 2020. The fact that more people are accessing information on the web using their mobile devices rather than desktop isn’t exactly news. Right now %15 to %25 of the traffic that we get on our websites is mobile. These type of […]
A better approach for integrating web marketing and web apps
Image by Insomnia Cured Here Marketing websites are built to communicate information about an organization or company with their target audience. They provide published pages describing the organization’s history, products, services, contact forms and such. End users browse and read the content of marketing websites. Some marketing websites offer downl