How to make an app in 30 minutes
In 2014, when the famous messaging mobile App Whatsapp was acquired by Facebook for $19bn, each of the 55 employees if given an equal share would fetch $350m. Millions of apps have been published by the Google Play Store and Apple Store over the last few years. What most of us fail to understand is that App Development, in its most basic form, is a very simple and straightforward task.
Most of us have ideas which we think can change the world. But we usually:
- Procastinate / Assume that the ideas are beyond us, and do nothing.
- Work on the idea and try to bring out the most perfect version, which somehow keeps going far away, each time we inch closer to it.
Therefore, Minimum Viable Product (MVP):
This post aims to detail a short process to make a simple app (let’s call it “The most minimal Minimum Viable Product) in 30 minutes (or even less).
This process consists of two stages:
1. Make a website
2. Convert the website into an app
Let’s see each of these stages in detail:
1. Make a website
In this phase, the aim is to make a website / blog using simple free online tools such as Blogger or WordPress. Below is an example of setting up a website on WordPress.
Stage 1 ends here! Now, let’s move to making the app!
2. Convert the website into an app
For this stage, I will be using an online service called Appmaker.
So wasn’t developing a mobile application a cakewalk?
Note that the app is not yet ready to be published to the AppStore (though it can be done via an addon purchase on Appmaker). However, you can definitely share it with your friends, via mail, bluetooth or any other means.
You have “the most minimal Minimum Viable Product” ready-to-go.