Building App With No Code While Traveling

Steven Cravotta is a young business owner with little to no success, until he completed his app that is designed to help people stop vaping.

his mobile app Puffcount, helps individuals by keeping track of puffs and nicotine consumption, making people more conscious of their habits, in hopes of guilting them to reducing vape intake.

Apps are believe to be difficult to build because the idea is that you need to learn how to code to build an app. With the whole trend of software engineers, coders are inflated and can be cheaply sourced.

I remember back then a coder will charge 200 dollars a hour to start working, and the projects they do will take about 60 hours, netting them 12,000 dollars. Steven paid his developer to build an app for 2,000 dollars. That is after everything is completed and is live on the store without bugs.

Sourcing skills to build your idea is not hard, the hardest part is marketing. Steven quoted that marketing is about 90-95 percent of your business. You can go online and find a bunch of good software, but if it’s poorly marketed it just won’t exist.

People has such a short attention span they won’t invest time to find something better, they will only focus on things that screams the loudest.

Why Mobile App

Every since the release of the app store, developers were turning into millionaires left and right. Remember Flappy bird? The guy that made the app was netting 40k a day from advertisements.

Thanks to him, devs from every alleyway start crawling out and start making their own copy of that app, not as successful, but close, and close to 40k/day is a lot of money.

Everyone wanted to be a software engineer and learn coding for mobile development, until it became over saturated and died in popularity eventually.

Despites it decline in popularity, it’s still lucrative and a capable of making millions. Steven didn’t followed trends, he listened to his own reasoning and debated that the less popular method would be less competitive, and create better opportunities for success.

Idea

Best way to come up with a idea, is to have it solve a problem, ideally you need to solve your own problem. If it’s your itch you’ll be more passionate about solving the problem, and you will have experience with the problem that can contribute to the solving of your problem.

You then need to make sure it improves a situation. It needs to have some kind of happy ending, where the results can be concluded, customers will not buy something that doesn’t satisfy a need in the end.

Validation

you need to go online to see if there are similar niches. This way you can rest assure that it’s not some make belief that your idea might be successful. Imagine having the idea to build hover cars, but will it be successful? Are you willing to invest your time and savings into something that has not proven to work.

Imagine all the impossibilities of a unproven business niche. Regulations, science advancement, acceptance, testing phase, etc. Waymo is doing this right now with their driverless cars, and despite the amazing results with it being safer than human drivers, it faces huge problems with people’s acceptance of the business.

Steven Kept It Simple

He brain dumped the whole process and event into a Google Doc. From Idea to making sales on a few pages of a free software.

He planned the development of his app on a few pieces of paper. You may think it’s primitive for a app development, but some great ideas are made on a piece of paper.

Can’t Develop But Made It

For the UI design he created the concept of his app and sent it to a website on 99 design to to create a UI for his app. This site is amazing because you have a bunch of professionals creating what they believe is the best design for your app, and you can choose from competitive designers.

As for the coding portion of the app, he went to Upwork to find a dev. He only pays for the completion of the project, and not by hourly rate, for obvious reasons. By his definition of complete the app has to be launched and have no bugs.

Short Story

I knew a person that was the room mate of my classmate from college, that wanted to build a flappy bird equivalent. He didn’t know how to code so he sourced a dev, the dev charged $1,700 for the app to be made, which took 2 and half weeks.

After the app was developed, it was writhed with bugs. My friend’s room mate need to get it fixed, but the developer changed his pricing model to hourly, and demanded $340 an hour because fixing bug is hard work.

Simple said Steven knows how to handle a bomb without making a hot mess.

Marketing Is The Most Important

Steven believe that marketing is 90% of the business, his product is overpriced and serves a good purpose. However it wouldn’t go noticed if he didn’t make a viral video for his app.

It doesn’t matter how good anything is, if it doesn’t fall on any ears, it will fail without question.

Similar Topic

Conclusion

Building an app is easier now that there are skills that can be easily sourced everywhere. My friends back then would scour through Facebook and craigslist to find a dev back in the old days, now there are Upwork and Fiverr.

If you are not interested in being a app dev there are other options at Mythtolegend.com in the Archive.

www.reddit.com/r/Sneakysidehustle

www.quora.com/profile/MythToLegend