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The five mistakes startups should avoid while building mobile application!

Startups, being disruptive in nature, often find themselves attempting something completely new. No one’s prepared, everything is a try-test-move-on process.

Startups, being disruptive in nature, often find themselves attempting something completely new. No one’s prepared for startups, everything is a try-test-move-on process. So when it comes to mobile app development, many startups end up wasting resources, time and money that they are struggling to minimize.

We present you five mistakes that startups should avoid during mobile app development:

1] Not building natively: This is very tempting for startups since building apps natively per platform can be expensive and takes longer. This topped with the advantages of cross-platform building, startups don’t take the native path. However, what if you realized your app will echo more with users of one particular platform and you start building it natively? It depends on what your application is targeted at. But once you take that decision, you will have an application that may get a five-star and resonate with your biggest user base. Once you have gone through natively building of one application, you may branch out and that would be a cake-walk.

2] Building mobile app internally: A lot of startups have developers on board taking care of most of their design and development needs. So it’s easier to hire them for that ONE amazing mobile app development as well owing to resource crunch. The reality is building it on your own may take four times the time. Capabilities of CSS, HTML and JavaScript alone are never enough. Unless you have a dedicated team ONLY for mobile-app development, your five-star app is never happening. And in mobile market also, time is money.

3] Many bloated features: Take for instance, a recommendation app for food, hotels, travel destinations, party places, conference halls, wedding banquets etc. all in one. There are many recommendation mobile apps that have many things into one but do you really think all these variables were added in the first launch? No. Startups often make this mistake though. Too many features or categories bug users and mobile app users are very unforgiving. The idea is to first get the signature features across, see their reception and then gradually add features.

4] Ignoring analytics: Though many startups are now becoming aware of its importance, analytics remains a largely ignored focus during mobile application design. How will you know initial traction, user reaction and behavior? You need to consider metrics such as user retention, daily active users, app crashes etc at all times.

5] Ignoring backend infrastructure: Startups are often excited and driven by great ideas. What they ignore is implementation. A greatly built mobile application will fall flat without the correct API design and implementation. You need to foresee work load on your application well on advance for minimal app crashes. Having said this, we realize that needs of startups differ depending on the nature of their application and the audience they are serving. These are not cardinal mistakes but the most common ones that can be avoided if they choose the right mobile app development partner.

 

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