Create Your Own App Free To Jump

Actually, this can be a good thing because that tells you that your idea is viable and there is a real need for it.

Create Your Own App Free To Jump

To make things easier, feel free to jump around based on your goals: Get inspiration for a great app idea How to validate your app idea is a good one How to further flesh out your app idea Ways to buildimplement your app idea Tipsadvice to get your app noticed in the App Store If that sounds good to you, lets get started How to make an app for beginners in 10 steps Generate an app idea Do competitive market research Write out the features for your app Make design mockups of your app Create your apps graphic design Put together an app marketing plan Build the app with one of these options Submit your app to the App Store Market your app for maximum exposure Improve your app with user feedback Bonus: App making resources STEP 1 Generate an app idea If you already have an app idea, then youre set.

Go to the next step However if youre still working on having a great idea for an app, Ive got a handful of really good techniques to help you come up with your next hit app idea.

Click To Tweet First keep in mind that there is rarely a completely new idea that is born from nothing.

There are over 4 million apps in the Google Play and Apple App Store combined according to Statista.com: Number of apps in app stores (Statista.com) Most ideas are variations and combinations of old existing ideas.

If you keep this in mind, it opens up your mind to think more creatively.

Alright, on to the first technique: Technique 1: The Remix Technique One way to come up with a great app idea is to put a twist on an existing idea or try to combine elements from various apps that you like.

This happens all the time and produces great results For example, Words with Friends, a popular mobile game from Zynga is basically Scrabble but online with social and multiplayer features that makes it easy to play a long game in short pockets of free time.

This is none more apparent than with the multitude of dating apps out there.

Every month there seems to be a brand new dating app coming out that targets a different audience or with a set of features (usually not new) that arent in other dating apps.

Heres how you can do it for yourself: Think of a few apps that you use very often.

Is there a way that you could take the most useful features and meld them together to form a new type of app Got your app idea juices flowing Skip to the next step Technique 2: Scratch your own itch I love this technique because often times, the simplest ideas produce the greatest results.

These simple ideas rarely come out of a brainstorm for app ideas.

Instead theyre born from a problem that you face yourself in life.

Chances are that if you have this problem and youre trying to find a solution for it, other people are as well.

If the problem can be solved with an app, thats a really good reason to create one Write down any of these ideas even if you know an app already exists to solve this problem because as youll see in the next step, there may be an opportunity to make a better app than what currently exists.

Technique 3: Improve an existing app Have you used an app and thought, It would be so much better if this could do X If so, thats the creative spark of a really good potential app idea Theres always room for improvement so if you thought that an app was sorely lacking a useful feature, chances are that you werent the only one to think that.

If the original app author isnt constantly updating and improving the app, then theres an opportunity for you to create an even better app.

One way to figure out whether or not youre right about this is to check the reviews and ratings for the original app.

Are people complaining about the same thing Are they complaining about something different Is the app author listening to the feedback As youre going to see, listening to user feedback and improving your app based on that feedback is probably the singular driving force to the success of an app.

An absent app author is sentencing his or her app to a slow death of user attrition.

NOTE If your reasons to make an app is to get some good ol experience with the process (and not duke it out with the other guys) you can skip to the next step Dont be disheartened if you see other apps in the App Store that already tackle the same problem that your app does.

Remember what I said earlier, there are no new ideas and there is always room for improvements.