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Give Wings to your idea to turn into an app!

Imagine you are sitting at café, sipping your morning tea/coffee, zoned-out, when you start thinking:

“Dude! What am I really doing with my life! My current job is not making me feel contempt anymore. I wish to do something bigger and better than this. Ugh! The boss, don’t get me started with that. Man! I want to be my own boss!”

And you’re starting to think about what you can do. You’ve been reading about lots of entrepreneurs and dreaming about plans for your own company. You watch these startups evolve and fall more times than not, you do the analysis again, ask your friends around. And one day, after having a sweet sleep, you wake up and exclaim: 

“I’ve got an idea for an app! ”

You enjoy your idea more and more with every new day. You can’t explain how you’ve never known of it before, and you proudly imagine how millions of people around the globe are using your software on their smartphones, laptops, and even connected gadgets. 

At first, you don’t tell anyone about your proposal – not to scare it away. Then you’ll call your closest friend, and you’ll wait impatiently for input, and you’ll be scared to hear the bad. He/she appears to enjoy it, and he/she offers a toast to your great future. 

Then one day, you wake up and think: 

“So, I’ve got an idea for an app. What’s next, huh? ”

And this is a very critical question that you have to answer. Have you got time to focus on it? Do you want to be in the heart of the idea or are you considering it just a second source of income? Will you have enough money to recruit developers? Do you really know how to turn the concept of an app into reality? And are you confident your customers would enjoy the product as much as you love the concept after you make your own app?

All these questions are difficult to answer from the beginning and a little daunting. 

But in this blog post, we’re going to try to make you understand what to do with your idea and how GeekMindz will support you on your journey of turning an idea to an app.

Let’s Begin!

1. • • Pen down features list
       The conceptualization of your idea starts with some notes. You should write whatever comes to your mind before doing something. Writing down the list of features on a piece of paper allows you to reflect and build on your concept. When you have a conversation with your co-founders, designers, investors or developers, this list will also be useful. Note that before you post your feature list, you should make them sign an NDA. It should be tidy and easy to understand. Make sure it also has common and exclusive features that will play a major role in your product’s success.
     • Do some study!
       One needs to have a better idea of what business market you’re going to be competing in. Study can also help you answer the issue of how to make money from an idea of an app. In the end, you’re not creating an app for altruistic purposes, you’re going to need to monetize it sometime. Any venture, before creating an app, needs to do market analysis to understand its customers. There are some of the questions you and us together are going to have to remember to find answers to:What kind of dilemma will my app help solve/how is it going to help users? Who are my users, huh? Are they adults or teenagers? Men or women or both of them? How old will they be? What gadgets do they have and how much do they use them?Are there any other related applications available? How many of them? What app stores are they in? How big/successful is it? How much of the downloads do they have? Will they have positive feedback from their users? What do their customers complain about? How will I be different from the competitors? What additional benefit will I give my users?How are your potential rivals marketing their products? What do the app listings look like? Are they running ads? If you have software websites, blogs, Other forums, YouTube videos? Journalists are writing about them, and what?How are peer applications making money? Are they running ads? Are they offering in-app purchases? Are they selling info to third parties?
     • Build a paradigm
       Based on the results during the study, take some time to build a market model.
       The business proposal should consist of a few blocks:
       The software – the core premise, usage benefits, pros, and cons, functionality
       The Users – Study of the target demographic
       Business and your rivals – applications that you are up against
       Monetization approach – how to make money off the concept of an app
       Marketing – how would you promote the app
     • Build a wireframe/Rough Sketch
       The rough sketch or wireframe lets you identify the definition and refine the product’s specifications. Using paper and pencil, you can draw a rough sketch, while a wireframe can be created using online software. You’ll be able to polish your app idea and features list further when you start doing the sketch/wireframe. This also helps you to determine the appropriate navigation for the entire application. For this step, you do not need technical skills, but you need to have a common-sense, an understanding of how navigation operates. Together with your feature list, your wireframes will create very good specifications for you to create a smartphone app.
     • Create your app
       Congratulations! This is the reason why GeekMindz has kindled…. creating an app from a mere idea or concept. Our designers and developers choose the right combination of technology out in the digital world and blend it right to give you the desired test. You should collaborate with UI/UX designers to create the app’s UI/UX. First of all, you should have the team build the application’s comprehensive wireframe so that you can imagine each screen, feature and flow of application. After reviewing, you can add or remove some features. You want them to build the graphic design of the application once the wireframe is finished. It should provide your concept with color, style, fonts and visual appeal. This move will give you an almost final image of what your mobile app would look like and how it is going to flow. Have your vendor reevaluate the development cycle, time and cost after completing it. Get more financing or reduce any of the features if the original time/cost estimate has risen. It’s hard to guess how long it would take you to make the app live. At that time, you’ll discover that everything you have been dreaming about cannot be applied, not all the functions can be programmed. Do not stress out. With GeekMindz, no dilemma stays undone forever!Hire our UI/UX Developer on hourly, part-time and full-time.
     • Get the software built and reviewed
       Have the creator of your app begin designing the app for you. Every week, they should be able to send you the app (in progress) and you should be able to test and provide feedback to them. As they build it, it is very important for you to QA the software, as this allows you to monitor the consistency, cost and timeline, and to learn if any tweaks are required for the mobile app. You can also get your mates interested in the research. Discuss those with your app developer and get the time and cost estimate if you come up with new sets of features during the development. Get it finished right away if it suits your schedule. We provide updates on the progress or the development of each feature to the clients, timely. Transparency with GeekMindz is guaranteed!Hire our android developers.Hire our iOS developers.

       ASO

       ASO (App Store Optimization) lets you get a lot of organic installs – that is, no money wasted on advertisement. But it’s not straightforward if you don’t know much about it. We happily:

       • Analyze the keyword
       • Find important keywords
       • Establish a proper name of the app
       • Template the icon
       • Write down clear explanations, subheadings
       • Project Screenshot Conversion
       • Monitor keywords in time
       • Boost the app listing with A/B checking
       • Creating an enticing symbol with a designer is a very responsible job. The app icon has a strong effect on the viewer listing, conversion rate and downloads of the store as a result.
       • Creating simple screenshots is not less critical than that. Look for best practices; consider whether you want them to be a landscape or a portrait; ask of the right theme.
       • Think ahead of the related keywords and build strong descriptions for the app stores. Keyword analysis is the first step and the foundation for a good ASO (app store optimization). If you feel very unconfident about this issue, at GeekMindz, we use ASO resources i.e. experienced ASO specialists.
       • Decide for which countries you will need to find your app listing from the start, prepare localized product details and snapshots of the app.
     • Prepare to deploy
       How do you expect the public to know the arrival of the new app? Do you want all the mainstream media to write about you? If you have a modest budget, consider:
       • Sending emails and tweets to friends and family telling them about the launch of your app and encouraging them to download the app and score it with 5 stars.
       • Share about it on all relevant social networks where you are registered
       • Post about your latest Product Hunt software
       • Inform the Reddit group about your new app
       • Build a directory of product review blogs, bloggers who review the app, and write a pitch to them.
     • Build a Campaign Roadmap
       The launch is only the beginning. Promoting the software should be one of your goals. Are you going to use SoMe? What’s about making a landing page and adding it to a blog? Do you need a partner? And if your app isn’t your full-time work, just a side project, there are some simple tasks you need to do with your app. Otherwise, nobody’s ever going to find it.
     • Check your app
       You’re probably very excited to eventually release your software. Still take some time to try it for yourself. Let your friends and family play with it for a few days. Users are very demanding. If the standard of the software isn’t high enough, nobody can use it for a long time, you’ll get some negative feedback, and it will make it really hard to get downloads with poor reviews and low scores.
     • Checking the web application
       Checking the web application is a continual process that usually occurs before and during the construction period. You can either automate the checking or perform it manually. You should strive to cover design, usability, safety, protection and accuracy checking during the testing process.

   Signing the NDA

   In the course of designing your app, you’ve obviously been worrying about the question: What if anyone took the idea of my app and started the app first? ”You’ve been so busy planning, designing, and producing that you haven’t been able to do the proper analysis to learn how to secure your app concept. If you read this blog post before you open the app, it’s even cooler. There are some important things you might do to shield the product concept from being released in app stores. Hence, to protect you from all aspects we at GeekMindz sign an NDA to ensure the safety of your concept of the app. We hope your idea has selected the right time to get into your life. Developing your app concept can be the most challenging and at the same time the most fun and exciting thing you’ve ever encountered. Watching your dream come true and flourish is the greatest achievement for us. Check us out! For more Creation, Insights and to Boost the growth of your app. Connect with us to convert your dream into dollars at info@geekmindz.com or www.geekmindz.com.