Happy Star Wars Day!
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Apple is trying to do good with it’s crackdown on apps that promote addiction to their popular iPhone. But are they inadvertently (or perhaps purposefully?) killing off their own competition?
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Raika sends some May Day love to you and your kin... Dance AROUND that Maypole, not ON it.
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When you're getting to the heart of your app or software idea to determine what needs to be in your prototype or MVP, you need to remember that any app that requires a bunch of pre-loaded data in order to provider value will be MUCH more expensive to produce. That's because you don't already have the data from the user's actually using your product, so you have to buy it from someone else.
If you're in that place, you haven't gone far enough into your idea to root out the intrinsic value of it. Create something that users want or need regardless of the resulting statistics and metrics, and you will curate the data over time. THEN you can add that value into your app later, and your users will be thrilled that now they can see what you see.
Brilliant.
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How many different types of reality are there? What do they all mean? How do you know which one you’re in?
Okay, so that’s a silly question, we’ll grant you… This week Raika is looking at Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality and talking about the state of the technologies and positing whether we’re trying too hard to escape our lives.
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This week on The Raika Show, we are exploring AR and VR… And how they impact our actual “R”. Technology has the potential to open up our lives and our experience in amazing ways. But only if we use it correctly. Is our addiction to social media, smart phones and “being connected” ultimately what separates us from each other?
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This week on The Raika Show, we are exploring the wonder of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality… And discussing the impact of both on our actual Reality. Could this technology be the key to bringing humanity back to actual connectedness? Or does it further fuel our addition to social media, smart phones and the illusion of being connected?
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You MUST know everything that's going on with your company when you're building a startup. If there's a manufacturing process, no one should know it better than you. If there's software, no one should be better informed about the state of the software than you.
HOWEVER... You CANNOT, SHOULD NOT, WILL NOT be able to CONTROL all of those things. And you SHOULD NOT try. Do what you are good at, be the biggest champion of your product and your people, and let those who are great at their jobs do them well.
Happy Tuesday, you know-it-alls!
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There's this misconception that you need to spend a lot of money on software before you put your idea out there. We say, "Oh, nay NAY!"
Build as little as possible to demonstrate your idea first... And then do a LOT of customer validation interviews to hone in on the core concept. You'll find out whether you're solving your users' problem or not very quickly and you won't spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of time on something that doesn't quite hit the mark.
Keep It Simple, Sillypants!
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his week on The Raika Show, we’re partnering up with Incubate This! to talk about IoT: Internet of Things.
Ahh, the Internet of Things… Smart thermostats, smart lights, smart door locks. The world is now just plain SMARTER because of these tiny little robots we’ve entrusted to care for the mundane logistics in our lives.
Are they really trustworthy? What is IoT, how was the spec invented, and what were the creators thinking anyway? Listen as GotAnAppIdea.com and Raika Technologies join forces to find out how these little gadgets impact our everyday lives.
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Ahh, the Internet of Things… Smart thermostats, smart lights, smart door locks. The world is now just plain SMARTER because of these tiny little robots we’ve entrusted to care for the mundane logistics in our lives.
Are they really trustworthy? What is IoT, how was the spec invented, and what were the creators thinking anyway?
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There’s no easy way to tell someone that spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on an app and putting it in the store is not going to default you to making millions of dollars. It’s even harder when that someone has already spent that money and has no downloads.
Do your customer research, market validation and user testing BEFORE you spend money. And you need, need, need MARKETING.
Carry on.
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This week on The Raika Show we're talking about NativeScript, a framework designed to cross-compile a single code base to iOS and Android, and frameworks in general. We get into our views on the state of modern web and software development, and how the industry is being impacted by the proliferation of developers who don't take the time to understand the fundamentals before diving into using frameworks. It's a little bitch session, but with nuggets of creamy goodness!
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This week on The Raika Show we're talking about NativeScript, a framework designed to cross-compile a single code base to iOS and Android, and frameworks in general. We get into our views on the state of modern web and software development, and how the industry is being impacted by the proliferation of developers who don't take the time to understand the fundamentals before diving into using frameworks. It's a little bitch session, but with nuggets of creamy goodness!
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Come along on the Raika journey as we dive into NativeScript and talk about how frameworks can be used for good and for evil… But only for those who actually know what they’re doing!
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