Evaluating Your App Idea and Supercharging your Chances of Success Part 2
This is a continuation of a series on bring an app to life, from nothing to something. Read Part 1 here.
Let Me Guess Your Idea.
‘Write what you know.’ They say this because if you start writing about something you’ve never experienced or know nothing about, it will show.
As a 23-year old, I knew some things about how the world worked. But like most young people, our view of the world is limited. There’s a lot we haven’t seen and most of the people we interact with are more like us than they are different; they go to school, work a part-time job, party, hang with their friends, use the same apps everyone else uses and go to sleep.
It’s because of this that many 20-somethings steer towards creating a social app. Dating, networking, sharing all your social handles from one app etc. Who can blame us, these are the problems we have and this is all we know! Rarely do young entrepreneurs tackle problems selling to businesses like the Collison brothers who founded the $22.5 billion valued Stripe.
One problem with most ‘social’ apps is they require scale to monetize. They’re only as successful as the number of users on it so it…
