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When Elon Musk founded SpaceX with a dream to colonize Mars, few believed that in ten years the company would disrupt the whole industry. SpaceX used an iterative development process to build increasingly complex rockets.

Hundreds of brilliant founders are now working on products that are doomed to fail. Their software ideas are too ambitious for their budget, too complex to execute, or simply have no market to capture. Yet, you don’t have to follow in their footsteps.

Most business ideas sound good and look fresh in our heads, while a good many of them die after falling into customer hands. Since entering the market with a new product is almost walking the edge, market validation under real-life conditions is crucial before launching.

According to Startup Genome, 90% of startups run out of money, end up targeting the wrong market, or fail due to a lack of customer research. A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a well-known antidote to these issues. However, if everybody goes for Agile MVP development, then why do so many MVPs fail to produce results?

Web app development costs are often confusing. Imagine asking a construction company to build a one-of-a-kind mansion in San Francisco. Most would agree that the final price will depend on many factors, such as the house size, number of rooms, total floor area, exterior and interior finish, architectural plans, permissions, and so on.

Want to outsource web development? But still, there’s a nagging feeling. I’ve heard so many horror stories from my clients and associates in the tech industry: misplaced trust, blown deadlines, and wasted budgets.

Last year, MindK ran an unusual contest as a mobile app development company. For a whole month, we accepted the best mobile app ideas. The winner would get their product developed free of charge. The only caveat was that the app had to be small enough to be built in one month.

HIPAA is a complex topic. Technical implementation has many nuances, which hackers exploit and regulators punish. In February 2024, hackers broke into the United Healthcare CHC server, compromising the data of 110 million Americans. The alarming part isn’t the human cost, the sheer scale of the breech or eye-watering $2.45B of losses for United Healthcare.

There’s one thing that stops Single-Page Applications (SPA) from dominating all other kinds of apps. They can take forever to launch. This is a huge problem as even a one-second delay can cost you 7% of conversions.

Concerned about user privacy? Well, you should if you want to avoid fines of up to €20 million. GDPR compliance is a must for pretty much every software company that handles EU residents’ data. To make the task easier, we created an in-depth guide to GDPR compliance for SaaS platform owners and software developers.

For most companies, increasing app engagement provides obvious benefits. Engaged users see more ads, buy more products, and pay for subscriptions. Yet since 2023, mobile app retention dropped by 12% on average between iOS and Android. 30-day retention rate is at an all-time low. So, how can you reverse this painful trend to boost the ROI?

Every client wants to know the price of the project ASAP. Even though there is a quick way to determine the price with a rough estimation, it doesn’t quench the thirst. This is where a detailed estimate comes into play.