Platformed businesses
Insights on developing platform marketplaces like Uber, Airbnb, Facebook that change the face of today's economy
Interaction-First Approach to Building Scalable Marketplaces
What is different about the business model of the platforms, and how we can build a successful marketplace, using what we know about platforms.
Three-Tier Business Architecture for Your Mobile Marketplace
Wondering how to build a successful marketplace platform? We'll tell you how to create its architecture and how to make money on it.
Build an MVP Right: What Does the Platform Economy Driven by Facebook, AirBnB, and Uber Teach Us?
But why do most MVP fail? We'll tell you how to avoid the most common mistakes and build a successful MVP.
What Powers the Rapid Growth of Today's Leading Mobile Platforms?
How did Uber, Airbnb, and YouTube scale? Here are five unique factors that make for the quick growth of any mobile platform.
Innovating loyalty programs
Loyalty apps are great tools for building profitable long-term relationships with customers and studying their behavior
3 Types of Loyalty Apps
In-app rewards can significantly increase user engagement. Rewarding users for staying loyal inspires t...
Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Kohl’s Can Teach You a Lesson on How to Design a Loyalty Program
How do you improve your current mobile loyalty program? This article is a nice cheat sheet for those of you seeking to make your loyalty app a bit spicier.
Loyalty App Development: How to Become the Next Big Player in Retail
We've listed six simple tips for developing your first loyalty application. Learn how you can improve your current customer loyalty program with a mobile app
TaskRabbit, Airbnb, Uber
Learn what powers emerging business models and get insights on how to build your own digital platform
The Technology Stack Behind Airbnb
When it comes to billion-dollar companies, Uber and Airbnb are often mentioned in the same sentence. Ac...
Designing Business Logic for Interaction-First Mobile Platforms Like TaskRabbit
Using TaskRabbit as an example, we will discuss how peer-to-peer platforms work and how you can create one yourself
Building an App Like Uber: What Is the Uber App Made From?
The technology stack behind Uber for those of you looking into building a taxi-booking app for your local area.
Why Does Everybody Want to Be an Uber for X?
We use a term Platform to describe emerging digital business models. Discover the advantages of working for a business like Uber and owning such a business.
Mobile shopping apps
Be in the know of the latest trends in shopping app develeopment
Style Advice App Development with Features Based on Machine Learning Technology
It’s difficult to keep up with urban culture and the modern fashion trends that come with it. A paradox...
How Can You Build a Marketplace Like Wish, Only Better?
Over the past few years e-commerce has transformed the way we buy and sell online. Online shopping is cur...
3 Types of Mobile Fashion Shopping Marketplaces You Can Build
Fashion not only attracts glances on the runway, but captures the attention of app developers as well. Fr...
How to Develop a Personal Shopping Assistant App Powered by Data Intelligence and Humans
The busier people get, the more they value convenience when shopping. The market has responded to this ...
Real estate apps
Real estate industry is in need of a technological makeover. Here we gathered our articles on the topic that we think you can learn a lot from
Real Estate App Development: How We Can “Uberize” the Industry
Most real estate startups remain within the confines of providing users with information and traditional ...
What Technology Stack do Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com Use for Property Listings?
We’ve already written a post about real estate online market and how to develop an app like Zillow. This ...
How to Develop a Real Estate App Like Zillow
The real estate industry has long occupied a prominent place on the digital pages of websites and mobile ...
Restaurants
Check out these new restaurants in town!...Just kidding. Here is how you develop an app for booking tables and ordering meals on demand
How To Develop an App Like OpenTable?
In 1998, Chuck Templeton, a former U.S. army ranger, while observing his wife’s futile attempts to book a...
3 Product Strategies for Restaurant Apps That Cater to Needs of Both Restaurant Owners and Guests
Valueable insights into developing restaurant apps that cater to the needs of both restaurants and their guests
Uber for trucking
Cargomatic and Keychain Logistics have proven that with a mobile app transportation industry can only benefit. We explored this topic to help you get started on your app
Using Mobile App Technologies in Motor Carrier LTL Logistics
The use of mobile technology in the transportation industry is shaping how business is done across the ...
How You Can Develop Uber for Trucking
Ever since Uber became an international success, every service that deals with transportation has wanted ...
How Can You Develop an HOS Electronic Logbook App for Your Long-Haul Drivers?
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), anyone operating a commercial motor...
Health and fitness
What we learned from our experience of developing several fitness activity trackers, nutrition and diet apps, and workout apps
How Can HealthKit and Google Fit Help You Develop Healthcare and Fitness Apps?
The health app industry has been booming over the last few years. Software developers and healthcare pr...
What Activity Tracking Technology Is Used in Fitness App Development?
The fitness apps and wearable fitness devices markets are evolving rapidly. Fitness devices enjoy stron...
Medical App Development: How to Build a Logbook App for Electronic Health Records
Viewing, storing and exchanging health data in an efficient way is one of the biggest challenges that a...
3 Types of Health and Fitness Apps and Our Experience Designing Them
We’ve already written about activity tracking technology used in fitness apps and wearables. Now, let’s f...
Handling personal finances
How personal finance apps – excellently designed, easy to use, secure, and free – work
What You Can Learn From These 3 Finance Startups
There are a lot of personal finance apps out there. In fact, we’ve written about some of them before: r...
Mint Personal Finance App Technology
Finance app development may really help change people’s financial behavior for the better. The Mint Per...
Personal Finance App Development
Most people don’t exactly think “fun” when they hear the words finance management. However, most people...
Video recording and streaming
Our market research of video recording and editing apps and an overview of the technology that powers them
Video Recording and Video Editing App Development: Top Performers
In 2012, the Instagram photo editing app was praised as one of the hottest social platforms of the year. ...
Video Recording App Development: How We Built Instagram for Videos
I don’t want to offend anybody, but we need to admit it - there are two types of users that we need to ...
What Technology Powers Periscope's Live Video Stream?
Mobile technologies that were used to develop Periscope and can be used to develop similar video-streaming apps
Succeed in dating business
From Tinder to Grindr. Our tips on building a mobile dating app
How to Get the First 5 Thousand Users for Your Dating App
Dating startups need to have a sufficient user base at the very launch. Our tips on how to position your dating app, promote it, get your first 5 thousand users and keep the user base growing
Some Hot Dating Startups
There’s a growing chance that if you’re looking for love in the digital age your search will begin with...
How to Create a Dating App That Meets User Expectations
Dating app development is a challenging option for entrepreneurs today mainly because online dating habits have changed. Let's see what users expect from a dating app!
5 Successful Dating Startup Stories
Tinder, Hinge, Grindr, Pure, Her. How did these dating apps become so popular? What do they all have in common? The answers are here.
Going social
Even if your app isn't exactly a social app, the majority of today's products have social features integrated. This list talks about everything social: content, technology, interactions
Social Networking App Technology Stack: How Do You Develop a Social App?
Social networking applications keep getting a lot of attention from developers even though it seems that ...
Social Networks for Professionals: From Physicians to Mechanical Engineers
Today, social media networking apps are on the rise. While Facebook may be more tailored for the person...
How to develop an Anonymous Social Networking App
Social media networks can take on many different forms to meet many different demands. One form is the an...
User Engagement in Social Media by Maslow
There are over 2 billion people in the world who use social media networks and this number is constantl...
Better travel
New technologies offer great possibilities for travel app development. See where the industry of travel apps is going
Case Study: Designing Virtual Reality App With 360 Virtual Tours
Did you know that virtual tours are already a reality? You only need cardboard, in order to visit literal...
Priceline, Expedia, and How a Travel Agent Can Still Enter the Online Travel Market
How the largest online travel brands like Expedia and Priceline operate and our recommendations for traditional travel agencies looking to build a mobile app.
5 Ways to Innovate in the Flight Search and Hotel Booking Industry
On-demand last minute bookings, predictive analytics, virtual concierge services, and more. What will be shaping the world of online travel bookings in the following years?
Concierge App Development: Delivering Human Experience
How to develop a concierge app powered by a dedicated team of concierges and artificial intelligence.
Okay. So...how much?
Want to know the cost for app development? You might want to check out these articles
How Much Does It Cost to Build a Marketplace App Like Etsy?
Mobile commerce is becoming a mainstream way for consumers to shop for products and services online. Th...
How Much Does It Cost to Develop a Dating App Like Tinder?
As of 2015, the online dating industry is worth more than $2.2 billion, and continues to grow year over...
What Does It Take to Develop an Instagram Clone?
All you need to know for developing your own successful photo sharing app like Instagram
How Much Does It Cost to Create an On-Demand Delivery App?
On-demand, app-based startups have been a major trend ever since Uber became popular. The popularity of t...
How Much Does It Cost to Develop WhatsApp?
Messaging is one of the most essential functions that smartphone users want to have at hand. Even thoug...
How Much Does It Cost to Design an App?
First, we will discuss what factors influence the cost of app design. Then, we'll talk about how much it can cost to design an app depending on project complexity and the geographic location of app designers.
How Much Does It Cost to Make an App?
Let’s be straightforward — customers always wonder how much it will cost to make an app. Relatively l...
