Building a mobile-based startup business
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Mobile apps for children use speech recognition and face detection with over 1 million downloads and 1500 custom videos; the product starts as an iPad‑only Slovenian MVP, validated with Xcode storyboards and Keynote prototypes, then scales to a subscription business with ~30 people (one third engineers). Engineering choices include Node backend, Realm/CloudKit/Firebase tradeoffs, cutting CocoaPods from ~50 to 25, moving to framework modules, sparse unit tests plus manual QA. UX lessons: prefer touchDown over touchUpInside for kids and add a selfie overlay to ensure faces fit the frame.
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- 0:00Building a mobile-based startup business
- 1:25The Idea can make anything, but I don't have an idea viral enough
- 2:46The Market
- 5:33MVP Mindset
- 7:24Technology Ship mine bugs and less than
- 8:09Business models Should make sense for your app.
- 9:01App Store Ready to publish your first
- 10:52Marketing
- 12:203. Know your user
- 16:22Unit Testing
- 16:58Business Growth Your product will expand to other platforms. Does your product work on the web? When do I need a backend?
- 17:28Server-side tech
- 19:18Other mobile platforms
- 20:47Scaling the codebase
- 21:25Letting go of control You started on the app was your baby
- 21:57Empower your fellow rowers.
- 22:35Build an engineering culture
- 23:13Into the numbers
- 24:51Conversion rate
- 26:095 tips for your business
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