iPhone App Design for Entrepreneurs: Find Success on the App Store without Coding

© Megan Holstein 2019

Megan HolsteiniPhone App Design for Entrepreneurshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4285-8_3

3. Idea Validation

Megan Holstein¹ 

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Dublin, OH, USA

 

You need to make sure people will buy your app before building it, because you liking an idea doesn’t mean lots of people will like an idea. Even if a few others have told you the idea is brilliant, that doesn’t mean it will actually sell well.

Take, for instance, celery. Most people don’t like celery, but celery-lovers do exist. If your app idea is celery, that’s fine. Not everyone is making an app for the masses. Some apps, like bird song libraries and Spanish-Portuguese dictionaries, will just not be needed by everyone. What isn’t fine is assuming your app is cake, when your app ...