Do you have a great idea for a mobile app that should bring in a large and constant profit? Don’t get excited and order the champagne, because you are guaranteed to encounter many serious problems. They can not only spoil your mood, but even put an “end” to your idea, no matter how brilliant it may seem.

Let’s analyze the main problems, which 99.9% of entrepreneurs face when realizing their idea of creating applications, and define the variants of their solution.

Problem 1: Choosing a contractor

A team of professionals can transform your idea into a workable product that is ready to be launched on the market. Among them there must be UI/UX designers, an experienced manager for concept development and coordination of the entire team, programmers to develop the front-end and back-end parts, a tester, an analyst, a specialist in ASO-optimization and promotion. Here comes the first problem, which is choosing a contractor to develop the mobile application. One person is unlikely to be able to cope with such a volume of diverse work, and simply being an expert in all these areas is impossible. Therefore it is necessary to look for developers on a freelance basis or apply to a studio/agency, whose staff already has all the specialists.

In the first case, the entrepreneur will have to spend a lot of time just to understand their own project and understand what kind of specialists are needed. After that it is necessary to find potential performers on multiple exchanges, assess their skills, discuss the project and somehow coordinate their work and establish communication. Freelancers working on a project can be located in different places and be unfamiliar with each other, which will complicate the communication, and you will be the only link between them. You will have to assign tasks to everyone, control the development process, pass on comments and resolve conflicts which inevitably arise between the participants of the process who work in the same team for the first time.

A company or studio, where all the specialists are already on staff, looks much more preferable option. You just tell your idea to the manager, and everything else the team will do itself. Of course, without your participation will not do, but it is required only for the harmonization of details, so that in the end you get exactly what you wanted.

Problem 2: Determining the cost of development

Before searching for contractors to develop an app for obvious reasons every entrepreneur wants to know at least the approximate price of such work in order to plan your costs and budget. And if you decided to find out online how much it costs to develop a mobile app, you are likely to get rather ambiguous results. Prices can vary significantly, and the cost can be specified both for the implementation of the entire project and in the form of a developer’s hourly rate. In both the first and the second options, it will be difficult to understand how much money will be needed. So without consulting with a manager, you can only know the approximate price, which is quite a significant problem.

After spending some time on the Internet and making a few calls, you will be able to determine the range of actual prices for development. A responsible contractor for mobile application development will be able to name the cost of implementing the entire project only after discussing all the important details with the customer, including the platform, functionality, design, and so on. You can find calculators online to determine the cost of the application’s functionality. But they are only approximate, the final price you can know only after the detailed study of all the features of the project. During the development process, there can be changes in the price associated with sudden complexities, which is sometimes used by developers who are not particularly honest. A reliable studio, which values the customer and its reputation, describes the price of its services and each stage of work in detail. As a result, you get the final cost, which must be specified in the contract, and in this case you are protected from increasing the budget.

Problem 3: Interaction with developers

It is not uncommon for a client to receive a completely different product than he or she expected to see. The blame lies both with the contractor and the client. And while everything is clear with the contractor, you may have questions about the fault of the client. So let’s focus at once on the client and his actions. You cannot give developers an abstract task and expect that the experts, using their telepathic abilities, will find out what you really want and will accurately implement all the wishes, even those that are not voiced. That’s why it’s so important to interact with developers at every stage of the work and agree on intermediate results.