HOW TO MAKE AN APP
HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN MOBILE OR SAAS APP
STEP 1: TALK TO US ABOUT YOUR APP IDEA
Clients typically come to us with just an idea and we can immediately give them guidance on what to do next as well as a ballpark estimate. Most app projects start with our team hearing out the idea in full, asking questions and having a lively discussion with our design and technical hats on. If you are in need of some advice on making your own mobile app or creating a SaaS app, feel free to contact us right now.
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what does it cost to make an app?
A typical app budget might be around $80K, but it depends. A simple app might cost just $15K to design and develop, while a complex enterprise-grade system might be a couple of orders of magnitude higher. It all depends on the complexity of the design and app functionality that you need developed.
The process of building an app is kind of like building a house. A developer might have some idea of ballpark pricing when you tell them “3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms”, but they’ll need to know the lay of the land and see some blueprints before quoting. Similarly, an experienced app developer can give you a rough ballpark estimate up-front, and an accurate quote after doing some scoping.
If you’re wondering what your app might cost to develop, feel free to get in touch with us now. A 5-minute phone call is all it takes to get a rough ballpark estimate.
Step 2: WATCH AS WE DESIGN AND BUILD YOUR APP
Apps are made by a team of highly skilled designers, developers and support personnel. A small, flexible, highly up-to-date team like ours would use the latest proven tools and techniques to get the highest quality results.
We would start off with understanding in detail exactly what you are after. Quite often this involves helping our clients clarify how they might achieve their goals, and just what exactly is possible with the technology at the moment, plus walking them through what it means to build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
We then go through our app design process, during which we aim to create a great, world-class user experience (UX) for your app. In the early days of the app economy, there often wasn’t enough attention to the UX design. Thankfully now, most people realise just how important this is.
At this stage we also start engineering the app using our agile development process. We test everything as we go, until we have a working solution. Once the engineering and design are in place we test everything from scratch again, until we are satisfied the app is working correctly. Then we give the app to our client for a test drive until they are satisfied. Once the client is satisfied, it is time to write up marketing descriptions for Google Play and the App Store and release.
WHAT DOES IT COST TO MAINTAIN AN APP AFTER LAUNCH?
Typically apps nowadays are always on and connected to the internet in order to enable saving user data, connecting users to services and to each other. In order to enable this, we would use a secure and proven hosted server for a small monthly fee. The server can start off really small and scale as your app usage grows. It’ll typically cost under $10 / month per thousand users.
step 3: make your app better by listening to your users
We will always aim to make your users happy, and when they are happy, we will continue working to make sure we keep the lights on and keep them happy. Enhancements, app analytics, bug fixes, app optimisation or whatever it takes is all part of the package. We would typically work closely with you on a product roadmap and as you execute your plans and get feedback from users we’ll happily prioritise the work that’s most important to you.
