How To Ensure Your App Idea Will Be A Success

Robert Smith
4 min readJun 28, 2017

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Originally published by — http://www.apptunix.com

There’s no magic trick in ensuring whether your app idea will be a hit or a flop. Mostly, the truth becomes evident once the app lands into the app stores. Some app owners get a harsh reality check when their app fails to get any sort of recognition, while all along, until the launch, they’d hoped for it to succeed and take the app world by storm. An app can fail for a variety of reasons — poor design, mediocre idea, no real utility to the user or most importantly lack of planning in marketing or propagandizing of the app.

Whereas an app can fail for a whole host of reasons, it takes one or a combination of few smart tricks to make it a success. Learn what some of them could be:

1) Launch The App At The Most Opportune Time:

For app-owners that are circumspect of their app idea, launching their app when the occasion is right has to be an ideal move. Festive seasons such as Christmas, Halloween or even Summer and Winter breaks etc can raise the excitement levels among people. That means you won’t have a hard time getting them upbeat about your app. There are plenty of apps launched at these times, with the sole motive of getting higher downloads and quick-cash inflow. Besides, that people aren’t overly concerned about the functionality, design or the interface of the app. They just want to have something for a pastime. So you get furthermore leeway in not being ultra-perfect with the app. One needs to avail expert mobile application development services to to make their app a success.

2) Reach For Those Unexplored Territories:

It’s true the number of mobile apps is constantly on the rise, and an ordinary mobile user could be forgiven for thinking that we’re near the ‘ideas’-extinction’ stage. You may think that there’s an app for almost every purpose these days. But that’s not true! There are still more ideas, in fact, more than have been implemented, circling around us all the time. One only needs identifying them.

Once the seed of the idea has been sown in your mind, you could begin visualizing it in the form of an app. Thinking of how it’ll function on a mobile phone and more importantly what purpose it’ll serve to the user will put you in the right stead. Given your idea will be quite unique and an unattempted one, you needn’t be afraid of facing any harsh criticism. It will, however, require you to delve deep into the topic and learn every aspect of it thoroughly. A specialist Android application development company can help in exploring such virgin territories for your business.

3) Identify Frailties In The Existing Apps:

You really need an expert’s eye if you’re going to poke and prod with an already existing app. But if the job is carried out cleanly, you stand a great chance to supersede your predecessors. The secret lies in fully imbibing the concept of such potential bearing apps and then finding out where they fall short in delivering maximum satisfaction to the users. After that your app developers’ skills come into play. If your own version of the app is really a step ahead from where the other apps finish, that there’s every reason that it would be warmly received.

4) Test First And Then Roll Out the app:

It’s often said that you should make an app by assuming the user’s mentality. Imagining how he/she will use the app and what features they’d like to see in it. Once you’ve done that, the journey ahead should become slightly easier. A top-draw mobile application development company usually takes the trail and test approach to app development.

To mitigate the disappointment of a failure, it’s often advised to first test out your app idea in its unfinished form, especially a demo or an MVP. You could join App Marketers or Entrepreneur groups on Social Media and get their opinion on your app. Their suggestions are always a great way to enhance the app’s functionality. As you perform the touching-up task, the confidence for the bigger app launch should be much higher and make you more optimistic of the outcome.

These are just some of the most crucial aspects concerning the app launch. Although these are smart and precautionary measure to ensure the success of an app, there is no substitute for the quality, i.e. your app itself has to be a good one in order to sell and break the bank!

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