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Lean Mobile App Development

By : Mike van Drongelen, Aravind Krishnaswamy
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Lean Mobile App Development

By: Mike van Drongelen, Aravind Krishnaswamy

Overview of this book

Lean is the ultimate methodology for creating a startup that succeeds. Sounds great from a theoretical point of view, but what does that mean for you as an a technical co-founder or mobile developer? By applying the Lean Start-up methodology to your mobile App development, it will become so much easier to build apps that take Google Play or the App Store by storm. This book shows you how to bring together smarter business processes with technical know-how. It makes no sense to develop a brilliant app for six months or longer only to find out later that nobody is interested in it. Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) first. Validate your hypotheses early and often. Discover effective product development strategies that let you put Facebook's famous axiom "move fast and break things" into practice. A great app without visibility and marketing clout is nothing, so use this book to market your app, making use of effective metrics that help you track and iterate all aspects of project performance.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

Monetization and Pricing Strategy

In this chapter, we will look at how we can make revenue from our app. It is obviously one of the most important parts of the business model canvas, and also the most exciting one. It is not easy to get money for a mobile app. People are often less willing to spend money on a mobile device and apps, though games can be an exception to this tendency. Fortunately, there are plenty of other possibilities to build a profitable app business, and we will see what approaches there are to accomplish this.

We will look at multiple ways of monetizing your app. Also, we will examine what a smart pricing strategy will be if you want to sell your app, or if you want to sell a product within your app (also known as in-app purchases).

Summarized, in this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Looking at what monetization strategies you could apply to...