At some point you need to trust your developer and spill the beans on your app concept of the thing that the world desperately needs, and often when we hear these ideas, we agree!! It doesn’t mean to say the first developer or investor you tell is going to run away with your idea. The chance of that happening is incredibly low, even if it's a great idea. The power goes to you! it’s your dream, you are the most likely candidate to invest in it, in your circles. Don’t let it slip away though or you could easily miss your chance at being first to market and dominating the space. These ideas are becoming rarer by the day, as are those perfect domains that will stick in the brain of the consumers. Make a move, get the .com, get an outline/quote for the development, pen the steps and the predicted outcome, check the budget, payment processes and timelines and if it all balances out, get started!
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The modern world of tech and business is changing incredibly rapidly and those that don’t keep up will be left behind to manage small local businesses in a micro geographic landscape. While the forethinkers and software technologists will prosper into the wide and all consuming abyss of the global market.
Contrary to popular opinion, this doesn’t have to mean that every industry will become overrun by the big players, in fact it can be quite the opposite with accessibility into the big markets being more available than ever before. Think not that an industry is devastated when an Uber enters the market, think about the opportunity to compete. I mean we now have Didi, Lyft, Ola, Careem, Taxify, Shebah, and Yandex with more hailing around the next corner. You could argue that there're more transportational apps than we ever had of transportational businesses in town, in the past and who would have been able to open a taxi company 20 years ago? Not many yay sayers I’m sure. But now, with a killer corporate design, an app and a brazen social marketing strategy the entire world, not just a town, can be opened up.
I have an idea for your Companies app development but don’t know where to start?
First we will absorb your idea and offer feedback from our professional perspective. Next we will go away and relay the concept and technical functions with the senior team to resolve the best design, technical arrangement and monetisation methodology for the app. We will then speak with the team members intended to partake in the development should it go ahead.
These technical leads will assist us in establishing a timeline for their end of the project and any issues they foresee potentially encountering and/or any benefits they can bring to the table.
From there we are able to provide you with a timeline, terms, and a price for the completion of the app development and placement into the appropriate stores for the targeted devices.
Once we have your approval we get started promptly and report to you as required in seeking feedback to ensure we are hitting landmarks appropriately and qualifying approvals and part payments prior to continuing into next steps.
When the development is complete and approved we submit the app into the Google Play and Apple stores or alternate delivery methods as per whatever is sought.
Once your app is in the stores the overheads in the stores are negligible. You can start receiving income from the user's purchases, in-app purchases and display ad revenues.
Mobile apps are the most expensive form of development in the app domain because there are specific conditions around the entire build as well as technical conditions for different devices but don’t be too alarmed, the technologies are getting more streamlined in the mobile app development world.
Depending on your concept and the necessary functions it might be better to build a “web app” which is just a website that looks and feels like a mobile app.
On the other hand however if you’d like to add further complexity to this equation, a gaming app may be even more difficult than a regular mobile app and require animations to be designed and shorts developed prior to or simultaneously to commencing the technical development. To put a ball-park figure on it, a web app $3k-10k, a mobile app $6k-30k and a gaming app $30k+...
Are app developers software engineers?
Ultimately an app developer and a software developer are the same thing; however software development refers also to other types of software. So an app developer is a software developer but a software developer might not be an app developer, if that makes sense.
Mobile app development IS a specialty field where learning can be costly, go wrong or exhaust the developers budget if done without the appropriate skills at hand. This is why you need to go with a trusted developer. Sumo Media will take your development all the way up to the app store submission for you. We have 100% 5 stars everywhere you’ll find us on the internet so you’re in safe hands.
Where the software development side fits into the whole app development process is if we need to build you a database, let's say, for the users of the app, and how to manage them internally, in a nice clean interface. For these systems we would defer to our software development technicians that are more inclined toward database structuring.
How much does it cost to maintain an app?
It costs very little to maintain an app, around $25/yr for Google Play store and $100/yr for Apple store, paid to the stores. However policy changes can occur, which might result in needing to make adjustments to your policies or the app itself. If for some reason your app didn’t meet the requirements of the app store policies and you were to host your app outside the stores on Sumo Media’s purpose-built app-server, expect to pay from $1,500/yr.
With any programmed system some general maintenance costs will be required to ensure any system updates are executed effectively. Maybe a few hours of technical labour per year.
A web-app could be the same cost as normal website hosting or potentially a little higher.
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How do I monetise my app?
Firstly you can have a website to accompany your app. Websites tend to draw traffic from Google Ads, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media, nurturing and referrals. Your app can also draw attention from the app stores organic traffic and you can embed display ads in your app to draw royalties from that. You can also have in-app purchases and subscriptions. Check out our marketing tips, tools for assessing which way to go and previous custom projects.