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Helping startups and budding entrepreneurs launch fully functional software MVPs in 4-6 weeks
How much to build an MVP (minimum viable product)?
MVP – A minimum viable product is a technique used by startups and developers in which a new product is launched with just enough features that are core to the product.
An MVP helps you:
Analyze Success Percentage
Target Potential Users
Explore Suitable Trend
Comprehensive Analysis
Prevents Project Failures
Attract Investors by showing them you can execute.
Development Time = 6 Weeks
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Your MVP should be the smallest amount of code and design possible to conduct your first experiment. It helps validate underlying assumptions quickly and therefore keep costs down.
After our experimentation window closes, we sit down together to review the feedback from the test. We’ll help process the data and make calculated changes for the next iteration. We see what we got right (and wrong) from real users. That data informs both the product direction and the assumptions we test next. If we got things wrong, we will need to pivot. That’s okay because we didn't waste time or money overbuilding unnecessary features in the first iteration.
Development Time = 5 Weeks
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After developing more than 100 MVPs, believe that 2-3 months is a rational time and 8-10k USD is the budget to build an MVP that is both minimum and viable.
There’s no direct answer to which one you should go with first as it depends on the type of your business and your target customer. To help you figure it out, we've listed the most important things to consider before making your decision.
If your users are going to use your application in a work environment for long hours, it probably makes sense to go with a web application first. On the other hand, if the user needs to have frequent but quick and simple interaction with your app, a mobile application would be a better option.
If you’re creating an application needs to be accessed frequently, it is advisable to go with a mobile app first. People don’t want to open a browser and type a URL every time they want to order their food on Uber. Alternatively, a web app will do a perfectly fine job for applications that people will only be used once a day or once every few days.
Mobile push notifications are comparatively much more effective than web notifications. They are more convenient, easily accessible, and keeps users up to date with notifications. Is it crucial for your application to send notifications for the best user experience? A mobile application would be a suitable choice for that case.
If the user needs to be able to perform tasks and interact with the application that you’re building while they’re offline, you definitely need to go with a mobile application.
UI/UX of an application should be adjusted to each platform – Android and iOS apps will always be a bit different. Mobile apps, especially when built for both Android and iOS, are usually significantly more expensive as compared to their web counterparts. Although the budget is an important factor in your decision making you should go with the platform which will be the most suitable for your users.
A website can help you reach more users in comparison to a mobile app. According to research, only about 21% of their website traffic comes from mobile devices and the rest comes from desktop and tablets.
Camera, GPS, sensors will always work better with a native mobile app. So, if one of these is crucial for your app, you should consider building a native app NOT a web app.
The three leading cloud computing vendors, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, each have their own strengths and weaknesses that make them ideal for different use cases.
Pros:
AWS provides a complete toolset with a wide range of functions available for users
AWS is seen as the gold standard for reliability, security, configuration option and monitoring
AWS has more compute capacity than the majority of its competitors by 5x
Multiple datacenter “regions”
Programs of all major software vendors are available on the AWS platform
Cons:
In some business cases, a steep learning curve may exist
Enterprise-level support must be purchased
AWS doesn’t have a strong hybrid cloud strategy for those businesses that want to keep sensitive data in a private cloud
The wide catalogue of offerings can be overwhelming and difficult to navigate for some users
Pros:
Great reputation in the open-source community and well established in the cloud community
Flexible pricing model
It is the best option when it comes to building containers
Cons:
Supporting large, enterprise projects has not been a focus for Google when compared to companies like Microsoft
Frequent outages have made the reliability of the product questionable
Variety of functions lacks innovation, Google as compared to Microsoft and AWS
Pros:
Flexible billing
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is a strong suit of Microsoft
Reliability and scalability
High-availability
Cost-effective
Easy to integrate for firms already running a lot of Microsoft software
Cons:
Functions seem limited when compared against AWS
Set up to support Windows; if a user wants to run something else Azure may not be the best choice
Get up and running quickly and easily with mentorship, training, and Cloud credits from the Google Cloud for Startups program.