How I learned to build Apps - My personal journey into building applications - Started as a designer and slowly migrated to becoming a developer / designer
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How I learned to build Apps
- My personal journey into building applications - Started as a designer and slowly migrated to becoming a developer / designer
Zack Siritwitter: @zacksiri skype: zack.siri
Yoobook.it
What I Do
- Artellectual Web Development Agency - codemy.net Web Development School - yoobook.it is our upcoming product for hotels
It all started with…
Cheqin
- Jouney as a application architect started with Cheqin - Hotel management software
Didn’t quite pan out the way I expected.
Lessons Learned
- I’ll be talking about some of the lessons I learned over the years - How someone who doesn’t have any technical background can get into building apps successfully.
Understand the Tech
- Either learn it yourself or hire someone really good to do it for you. - You’ll need a tech person on your team you can trust.
Can mean the difference between spending 300,000 or 30,000
It ain’t never gonna be ‘perfect’
- Get your software out the door early and often - Don’t spend years perfecting it because thats never going to happen
Launch - Refine - Repeat
Remember this?
- Gmail was in ‘beta’ for 5 frkin years!
Understand your target audience but don’t listen
to them
- find a problem you want to solve. - you can listen to your audience about the problems - they don’t know how to solve the problem, if they did they wouldn’t need your product. - you have to figure out the best way to solve the problem for yourself. - if you were in their shoe and had their problem, how would u solve it?
–Steve Jobs
“How does somebody know what they want if they haven’t even seen it?”
Build a good product
- there are many people out there doing crappy things - set yourself apart by making cool stuff - how do u define ‘good’?
KISS (Keep it simple stupid)
- People want a solution to problems not make more problems - Dummy proof
- its all about how your customers feel - the product, the price, the image, the brand - make your customers feel like superman - they have super powers
Accessible
- Your application should be easy to get started with - Don’t ask me 500 questions - This is not an interrogation - Lower Barrier of Entry
30 days Free Trial no credit card required
- People love free stuff - Let them try your stuff out
Good Customer Relationships
- Same as every other business - Good customer relationships can make or break you - Tell story about AirAsia
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