Guides on app development, AI, and shipping software that grows your business.
A founder's playbook covering outcomes, curriculum design, offline-first builds, and WCAG 2.2 compliance. Skips the fluff other guides pad out with.
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Skip the team. A realistic solo-founder playbook to build, test, and launch your app in weeks, not months. See exactly where most builds stall.
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A founder's playbook for how to make a dating app, skip the $80k cost myths and fix liquidity and trust before your first 500 users churn.
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See a real $40K fixed quote vs a $35K T&M job that hit $52K. Learn which model fits your project and the contract clauses that keep you safe.
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What tutorials skip: code signing, store review, crash monitoring. A founder's roadmap from build to launch, plus the costs most budgets miss.
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A 6-stage roadmap to launch without a developer: validate, scope, build, test, submit. Skip stage 2 or 4 and your app stalls. Free tools included.
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Skip the coding tutorials. This founder's guide covers validating demand, picking a build path, scoping your MVP, and launching, not just code.
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Real timelines for MVP, beta, and launch, not vague 3-9 month guesses. See what eats weeks and how to plan yours.
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Copy a real PRD template that splits product, UX, and tech requirements, so nothing gets rebuilt mid-sprint. Includes AI feature guardrails.
Read articleWe publish what we learn shipping products, not recycled advice. Every guide comes out of real client work: the decisions, the trade-offs, and the numbers behind them. Expect concrete figures over vague ranges, honest trade-offs over sales pitches, and checklists you can act on the same day. These are the areas we cover.
What an app actually costs, broken down per feature so you can build a realistic spreadsheet before you talk to a single vendor. Covers the platform trade-offs that move the total, and the running costs that most quotes quietly leave out.
Getting through review and finding an audience once you are live. Developer account setup, store readiness, policy compliance, and the monetization models that still hold up six months after launch rather than just on day one.
Shipping is the start, not the finish line. Release cadence, OS version churn, and the maintenance work that decides whether an app is still worth opening two years in. The unglamorous part that quietly protects the investment.
What the roles actually mean, what good work looks like, and how to tell a solid technical partner from an expensive one. Useful whether you are hiring in house, briefing a freelancer, or choosing a studio to build the whole thing.