How to Make Money from Developing an App

In this post, we will find out how to develop an app as a project for making money from the analysis stage until the uploading of the app in google play or the app store.

🔰 The first stage: Plan Your App

First, you have to decide the idea of the app take a paper and a pen and write everything related to the app, what services it offers, and what are problems that it can solve, and the community group, the age group that the application target, and this if you have the idea about the application but if you don’t have it go to google trends maybe you can find ideas about apps.

🔰 The second stage: Research Your Competitors and Audience

After you find the app idea and decide the services that it offers and the problems it solves now time for analyzing the market and your competitors and this will develop your application and you will understand a lot of things, for example, the strategies that your competitors work with and what is the strong point and weakness of it, go to the rates of the competing applications to find out the points that the users complain about it to try to avoid them in your application and here some tools that they will help you in this domain:

AppFollow

Appfigures

Google Analytics

Amplitude Analytics

Mixpanel

Adobe Analytics

🔰 The third stage: Decide how you will monetize your app

In this stage, you have to decide how you will earn money from your app and here there are a lot of solutions.

The first solution for me that has a large financial return is to have an application that offers a service and takes a commission. For example, the application of selling used books peoples come and present their books in the application and the person comes and buys one for 10 dollars and he gives you a commission of $1. So he pays 11$, you take 1$, and you take 1$ from the owner of the books, and you pay 9$. A lot of applications and websites are working with this way like freelance websites.

The other way is an application that offers a monthly subscription, for example, a website of application of music and if you want to listen to music you have to be subscribed 5$ per month. As for the other way, it is a paid application, which means that you cannot download the application until you pay 2$. or the other way is ads, whether ads from Admob or any other company.

And there are other ways to make money from the application, but those are the famous ones.

🔰 Then Software Requirements Specifications

In this stage, you analyze the application in a technical way and document all the advantages of the application that can be managed through the SRS file and include the following:

Features List

Use cases

User Stories

Activity Diagrams

Sequence Diagrams

UML design.

🔰 Build an App Wireframe

At this stage, you need to have the first model of the application and translate the idea into a visual application, and you can do that yourself or rely on sites that would help you like HotGloo, Moqups.

🔰 User interface (UI, UX)

After your colors have been chosen, the interfaces are designed based on images, and you design each interface separately and especially taking into account the user experience. It is possible to manage this through Adobe XD.

🔰 Programming stage

The programming stage is the longest and most difficult stage in the process, especially when it was a large application with a large number of interfaces, and the programming stage was divided into two parts.

🔰 Front-end stage

In this stage, you start developing the interfaces and relying on SRS, which we led in the analysis stage and XD. As for the programming language, it depends on the operating system of the application, Android or ios…

🔰 Back-end stage

Here if you are back-end you can work on it yourself or the opposite find someone who is back-end to do it for you. In this stage, the server has to be developed and connected with databases, and the Rest API has to give to the front-end to connect the application to the server and the database.

🔰 Testing stage

At this stage, the applications have to be collected in one system and all the interfaces and services in it should be tested if they will work very well without any problems and also test the integration and functions of the application with each other.

🔰 Publishing Stage

The stage of publishing the application is a very important stage. Here, you have to open an account, whether in the Play Store or App Store. and after that, you have to upload the application to the store and do a description and Screen Shot for it to show us what kind of service the application can do for us.

After you publish the application in your online store, you have to launch a marketing campaign to market your application and let people know it well, and you have to pay attention to the evaluations of the users and try to solve the problems constantly face them, in order to give a very good user experience.

And good luck to everyone .