Tips for building great Apps
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a blog by Weblance Providers for Weblance Clients
Startup idea tracker Elevatr hits 40,000 users in first month
Startup idea tracker Elevatr hits 40,000 users in first month (via Pando Daily) By Erin Griffith On June 10, 2013With Elevatr, his tool for tracking, sharing and developing ideas for startups, David Spiro is making a bet that startup culture is mainstream culture. The market for such a tool seems fairly niche — how many Read More
The startups apology to the development team, again..
The 1st couple of weeks after launch can be a pretty crazy time. Invariably, your users will find little bugs here and there that you have indeed missed during testing. You will also be balancing in all the user feedback you’re getting. Some good ideas, some not so good. Sometimes users just have good Read More
Playing the Game: Right Brain, Surfing, And Tyson’s Right Hook
Playing the Game: Right Brain, Surfing, And Tyson’s Right Hook (via http://www.bluecloudsolutions.com) “Ain’t how you play the game, it’s how the game plays you.” – Charlie 2na This morning one of my favorite songs came on and I heard the above quote poke through the lyrical masterpiece hip-hop legend Charlie 2na puts out. I re-wound Read More
Android is set to topple iOS as most popular app platform
Android is set to topple iOS as most popular app platform (via The Inquirer) INTERNET SEARCH GIANT Google’s Play store for Android apps will topple Apple’s App Store as the most popular app platform within the next few months, according to an analyst. Apple recently announced that its 50 billionth iOS app had been downloaded, Read More
Apple Expected to Open iOS7 Functionality to Developers
Apple Expected to Open iOS7 Functionality to Developers (via http://dogtownmedia.com) Tim Cook revealed that Apple will likely be opening up much of the highly anticipated iOS7 software to 3rd party developers. The Apple CEO hinted during his interview at the All Things D conference that iPhone and iPad app developers can expect to gain deeper Read More
Mobile developer’s report 84% of lean startup jobs are iPhone
As we slog through our vetting process for providers post launch, we’ve been asking some interesting questions of the providers who are signing up for Weblance. One of the things we wanted from our developers and designers who offer both Android and iPhone services was – of your lean startup clients, how many choose iPhone Read More
The Top 7 Most Asked App Skinning Questions – Answered
The Top 7 Most Asked App Questions – Answered (via http://www.bluecloudsolutions.com) There are a lot of questions out there right now about coding, skinning, making money, and everything in between. People ask me in comments, on FB, Twitter, and others all about the app process. I do my best to respond to everyone (within reason) Read More
Thank you for all your feedback, post launch!
Post-launch feedback has been outstanding. Some of you have really taken the time to engage us and tell us how we can make Weblance better. And make no mistake about it, we are listening! So what changes can you expect in the near future on Weblance? Remaking the whole signup process much easier. Getting Read More
Appstore optimization no one talks about
App Store Optimization – Five Points Nobody Is Really Talking About (via http://www.bluecloudsolutions.com) During the last 12 months, I have been working as an App Store Optimisation Consultant and, with great excitement, I have seen how the word ASO has become more and more popular within the developers’ community. In the beginning, everyone seemed a Read More
Startup Metrics for Pirates
Sometimes just knowing what to focus on next can be difficult for a lot of startups. Often times you can start with the marketing plan then push hard through development and by the time you’re done and you’re ready to launch the marketing plan is long forgotten. As a founder of any startup, you’re wearing Read More
App Camp for girls
Why Apps? Why Girls? Let’s face it, building apps has long been the domain of nerds, geeks and mostly men. Men whose lives are vacant of the more pleasant among us. Pleasant like me Well Jean McDonald aims to change all that. She will tell you that she is attempting to address the gender imbalance in the Read More
iOS Apps Earning Nearly 5 Times More Than Android
iOS Apps Earning Nearly 5 Times More Than Android (via http://dogtownmedia.com) Mobile app developers continue to choose the iOS platform over Android. Google may be wondering why so many developers flock to create software for the iTunes App Store over Google Play. The main reason is blatantly obvious. Developers follow the money. Apple’s dominance over Read More
Weblance gets featured on Project-management.com!
Special thanks to the project-management.com team and the author Jose for the great feature they did on us. It feels great to see that such a professional organization committed to solid project management methodologies and best practices got us! At the heart of Weblance is project management best practices so this article for us is better than sliced bread. They Read More
What is a “curated” freelance marketplace?
Weblance, the second curated freelance marketplace launched this week. Following on the heels of a similar curated freelance marketplace model as Rev.com. The new “curated” business model is based on controlling the customer experience through member selection and providing streamlined work tools for providers. Traditional aggregated and generic freelance marketplaces face certain challenges in controlling Read More
Providers! Let us bring the clients to your door!
Providers, did you know that we will market your profile by blasting it all over the web? White hat of course! You can now login to the Weblance blog using your Weblance username and password to create your own blog post. Than we take it from there! The Weblance blog was specifically designed to allow Read More
Weblance launch press release
Weblance officially announces the launch of its new curated freelance marketplace. “We are about bringing people together that believe project planning is essential to controlling scope and budget. We want to attract the right people too, we are curating our members who want to build quality apps at a fair price.” says Jeff Williams Weblance’s Read More
Weblance launches with success
Day one of the Weblance launch was a long and exciting day. Most of the Weblance team slept in late the next day. We were up all night talking to users, getting feedback and knocking out the occasional minor bug here and there. We are pleased with all of the positive feedback we received. Read More
Weblance officially launched beta today
Weblance launches today Weblance officially announces the launch of a new freelance marketplace focused on building apps. Weblance is an evolution of the online freelance marketplace model. 1. Providing users with powerful tools to build quality apps 2. An improved safer payment system 3. Curated providers that deploy best practices to manage projects better Read More
Android fragmentation threatens future of platform growth
Android architecture has been called into question lately. The blogs are on fire with Android fragmentation issues. There are over 3000 combinations between different devices and software is running on the Android platform. There are various screen sizes from tablets to high-end mini screen pocket phones. Hundreds of phone models and microchips. Software performance is Read More
The API Economist
The API Economist (via The API Economist) May 21, 2013 API Economist: What exactly does a developer evangelist do? Samantha Ready: The way I would describe a developer evangelist is part thought leader and part explorer. On the one hand, we’re trying to be on the cutting edge of what’s new with the software product Read More
