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Buzzwords If you are a developer, a random tech interested person or you don’t have anything to do with tech, you must have heard phrase machine learning many many times in past few years. You can read about it on blogs, in newspapers, on TV and even when going to the supermarket. It looks likeContinue reading “Machine learning all the things”

You If you are a solo consultant or an agency with more people, and you are selling some services to clients, you want to sell them for as much money as possible. Why? Because you are not here to look at the sunshine and rainbows, you are here to make money, have profits. You needContinue reading “Selling to clients and getting higher rates”

Just put ads When you hear people talk about monetization for their products, you always hear them talking about ads. It is the easiest way to “solve” monetization problems. But let’s be honest, when was the last time you saw an ad that you liked or even clicked on? I mean, ads can sometimes showContinue reading “Remove ad banners and give real value to customers”

Frameworks and libraries frameworks everywhere We should start counting how many times we say the word framework or library every day. They are one of the most popular (but serious) development buzzwords. There are lots and lots of frameworks and libraries. There is a framework or library for every single thing that you can imagine.Continue reading “Use your own framework or library and they will always need you”

Bugs, don’t make them As we have already said in “Make bugs, make money!” post, bugs are a normal thing. In that post, we talked about why you should write and make bugs. Now we will talk why you should not make bugs. MDD is for everybody and we should give everybody a chance toContinue reading “Don’t make bugs, make money!”

Bugs, bugs everywhere Bugs are a normal thing, you have them and get them every day. Ok, if you write perfect code (and you should not for various reasons) you will not get them. You need to ask yourselves, are bugs a bad or a good thing? 🙂 They are both good and bad, andContinue reading “Make bugs, make money!”

If you take a look at our Manifest, you can see that we mention the code to revenue ratio. So our goal is to get as much revenue as possible by writing as little code as possible. That is why we think that you should write once, sell anywhere. You can sell it on multipleContinue reading “Write once, sell anywhere”

These days everything and everybody wants, needs and makes an app. Stop doing that and focus on making IAPs (in-app purchases), not apps. By focusing and making more IAPs your code to revenue ratio will start getting better and better. Writing less code, and getting more revenue, that has MDD written all over it! ByContinue reading “Make IAPs not apps”

MPU – Monthly Paying UsersMAU – Monthly Active Users When building software products and talking about important metrics, you can always hear them talk about monthly active users. But what use do you have from having lots of monthly active users if they don’t pay anything and you have zero revenue from it? That isContinue reading “How MPU should be the new MAU”