Stop adding “one more feature” and ship your product. — You have a great idea for a product and you get extremely excited about it. You spend countless hours working on your idea. Your roadmap grows instead of shrinking, you are not even halfway done. Motivation starts to decline, you take a break and decide to continue a bit later. A new, more exciting…

You are probably using apps built with React Native everyday — In this article, I want to show you 10 popular apps that currently use React Native! Many well-known companies are making big bets on this framework. They are developing complex apps that are used by millions of people every day. …

Step up your JavaScript knowledge in just a few minutes — JavaScript is one of the most used programming languages today. You can build almost anything with it, like websites, APIs with Node.js, or apps with React Native. The fundamentals of JavaScript can be learned quite fast, but mastering the language is challenging! There are many parts of the language that…

Level up your HTML knowledge in just a few minutes — As web developers, we work with a lot of different technologies, frameworks, and programming languages. Getting started with HTML, CSS, and JS might be easy, but mastering each of them is hard. HTML often gets overlooked, even though there are many benefits of knowing more about its features. Using HTML…

10 tips on how you can market your app for free — It took me 441 days after the release of our app “Avocation” to hit the 1 million downloads milestone. When I started this project I knew absolutely nothing about marketing and ASO, but I learned a lot during that time. Spending money on paid acquisition channels was not an option…

For one, I told our story — This is my journey of scaling my first app, Avocation, from 0 to 100,000 downloads in less than six months with neither paid ads nor experience in app marketing. Why Should You Care About Marketing? First, a bit about me and how I ended up learning as much as I could about marketing apps nowadays. I…

One month ago I released my new side-project so I took the chance to reflect over the last couple of weeks. And I realized that I learned a lot during that time. These are the five biggest lessons I want to share with you. 1. The work just started This was the biggest discovery for…

When I started my latest side-project half a year ago I had to choose how to manage and persist the state of Avocation a React Native App I built. I decided to use MobX for its simplicity and my experience with it. Setting up MobX and managing my apps state…

Nowadays it’s hard to think of any app that doesn’t save some sort of data. This has a couple of advantages over retrieving data from the internet: Reading local data is much faster than over the network It works without having an internet connection Better privacy for your users since…