Optimizing for Success
Re-evaluating mistakes from previous projects and the solutions we employed for our most recent project.
As we continue to put the finishing touches on our newest project we took a trip down memory lane to revisit the failings of our previous projects and the lessons that we learned from them. This was, of course, done to ensure that the same mistakes were not made again in our latest project. We talked about the lessons that we learned in our previous projects in our story “Five Lessons Learned From Our First Failed App”, so in this story we wanted to expand on the value that came from our failures, how we improved in our newest project, and talk about new lessons that we learned.
Monetize Early
In our previous article, two of the lessons that we learned focused on the difficulty of deployment and knowing when cut our losses. These were hard lessons to learn, but learning them allowed us to learn a bigger lesson: monetize early. In our previous project, we focused on building everything from the ground up and left monetization to the end of the project. This proved to be a costly mistake as when requirements changed or when deployment took longer than expected we were left having to swallow the cost of development. Approaching a monetize early strategy allowed us to recoup some of our losses when issues like this occurred. But how do you a monetize a…
