A few things we’ve learned while building apps for local organizations, travel, and events.
“Let me Claude that.” That phrase didn’t exist six months ago. It’s how we start half our conversations now. About a month ago we started running Claude Code deep into our development workflow at GoLocalApps. Not as a search tool. Not as a writing assistant. A...
Read moreIn an era where smartphones dominate daily life, small businesses are increasingly leveraging geolocation technology to attract and retain customers. Hyper-local apps—mobile applications that use real-time location data to deliver personalized experiences—have...
Read moreMany companies, new and old, have a smartphone app to complement their website and make them a more convenient and accessible business. If your company has created an app, but download numbers are not as high as you would like, you have come to the right place...
Read moreHaving the goal of wanting to create your first mobile app for your business is an excellent way to keep your customers satisfied. This is a great solution in this day and age for attracting new customers and helping you to retain those who are already fans. T...
Read moreIf you feel that your ecommerce business has hit a rut and is very much in need of a boosting, then you should turn to application technology. There are a host of apps out there that will help you to optimize your online store — they’ll help you to improve its...
Read moreMany companies now invest significant time, effort, and money into collecting lots of data so that they are better able to serve their clients and customers and to help them make better commercial decisions, especially small-to-medium sized B2B businesses who ...
Read moreYou’ve created an app, and you want to see it become successful and widely used, naturally. Your first downloads are going to be from your friends and family, and this is a good starting point, but you need to influence wider and larger circles after this. If ...
Read moreBusinesses should always look to have one eye on developing technology, and there isn’t much bigger than the mobile app industry. More and more businesses are investing in mobile app technology in order to increase their customers, sell more products and gain ...
Read moreMaking the decision to launch an app is one that could be very lucrative if well-marketed. Depending on the purpose of the app, it could also make a great impact in many people’s lives. There is a lot of work that goes into developing an app, and it can demand...
Read moreSo part of my Monday routine is to take a look at the previous week’s app downloads and purchases. Typically it’s pretty stable, with different apps having seasonal swings. Our Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives app has a pop every Friday and Saturday after a new epi...
Read morePromoting your app is an ongoing process. If you’re an indy programmer, you might also be responsible for marketing your app, and that might not be something you’re good at, or you can’ afford to hire a PR firm or marketing person. Plus with a new app, you nee...
Read moreIf you’re too busy or not able to do all of our suggestions from our 13 Ways to Promote Your App Using Your Screenshots tutorial, we can do it for you. For $500 we’ll make great screenshots for you and promote them on more than 100 sites. We’ll give you all th...
Read moreFind your app’s Super Users and hack your growth! App usage for any app follows some fairly normal patterns. Some users will use it a lot; others just open it once and then never again. While every app is different, if you could graph your users by usage, you’...
Read moreSo when we posted AppToolkit.io to Product Hunt this month, on the same day, someone also posted some self-tying shoes. While we didn’t get into the top 5 products for the day, we did end up in the top 10, and we beat out the self-tying shoes. Take that Michae...
Read moreNo doubt you’ve spent countless hours conceiving, programming, and designing your new smartphone app. You probably spent quite a bit of money on it, too. Below are 14 ways to kickstart your marketing: 1. App Store Optimization App Store Optimization (ASO) requ...
Read moreHow to Create an iOS Sticker Pack – A Tutorial Walkthrough The new iOS Sticker Pack apps are flooding into the App Store, and if you are a developer like me, you want to get in on the action. I struggled trying to find a good instructional article online but I...
Read moreLately there has been a lot of news about how people just don’t download apps like they used to – how users just use the same couple of apps for most of their time on their phone. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and WhatApp suck all of the oxygen from the room....
Read moreHow to use Pokemon Go to promote your business Having been a comic retailer during the Magic the Gathering and Pokemon card games and the Beanie Baby craze, the Pokemon Go launch reminds me of all three on steroids. Magic and Pokemon were a younger and mostly ...
Read moreShortly after Business Insider released this teaser to their new report, “The mobile app boom has ended,” — Read it HERE — suddenly every tech blog was running the same headline and their own analysis of the just how screwed the indy developers were now. Searc...
Read moreSo a few months ago, my partner and I started using Trello to organize tasks and share between ourselves. We’ve tried a few different things over the years, and she always hates it when I find something new because she knows I’ll eventually make her shift over...
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