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How To Mess Up An App in 3 Steps

It’s so easy to make senseless mistakes when outsourcing the app development process. One minute you’re riding high and feeling like a million bucks when you suddenly realize you goofed big-time and made a huge mistake or three. Hopefully this never happens to you, but it’s possible so pay attention to the cautionary tale we’re about to share with you today.

I imagine you’ll be kicking yourself if you make dumb, easily avoidable mistakes!

Instead of leaving your app development project vulnerable and at risk, learn from our fictional friends and avoid making other people’s mistakes.

So pay attention to a simple three-step process specifically designed to completely mess up your app development project! Once you learn from the biggest boneheads in the biz, you’ll know how to avoid making the same mistakes.

Step #1: Did You Ignore the Time Zone Difference Again?

Our whiz bang team outsourced their app development to an overseas developer with a nine hour time zone difference. Great job! I’m sure they saved a bundle, right? They better have because they just turned their app development project into a living hell!

Guess what? The developer has every intention to work on the project during her normal 9 to 5 business hours. Since her 9 AM starts at their midnight, our crackerjack team is going to have plenty of sleepless nights in the coming months. Congratulations for making such a foolish move! Time mastery is different for each individual.

They may convince the developer to meet them halfway so they don’t have to completely throw their schedule off until development is complete. But there’s no guarantee she’ll do anything to alter her work schedule.

So dear reader, if you do plan to hire somebody outside your time zone, you better figure out how you’re going to effectively communicate with your developer with this huge time zone difference standing in your way.

In a perfect world, your development outsourcer will have at least 4 to 6 hours’ worth of overlapping time during the workday. So you really should steer clear of any developers on the other side of the world. Otherwise you’ll be working while your developer is sleeping and vice versa. You seriously need to avoid this at all costs to spare your sanity!

Step #2: Don’t Forget to Send Your Developer 100 Emails a Day!

Thank God their developer is in another time zone! Otherwise she’d end up strangling every member of our dingbat team if they were within a reasonable distance. The easiest way to force a developer to put a hit out on you is to constantly email questions, whine about silly concerns too often, and constantly ask for different updates – you know, the things you paid this dev to take care of.

By over-communicating with your developer, you may have the best intentions at heart, but you’re actually sabotaging your project. Your developer needs to enter the zone and not be bothered at all during the workday. Your constant interruptions are making it impossible for her to make meaningful progress on your app development project. So if that was your goal, touché! You did a fine job!

Step #3: Testing! Who Needs Testing?

Those sly devils! They thought they’d avoid testing altogether to save a couple of bucks. They failed to put services that do error monitoring in place, and they never even thought about hiring an in-house testers to make sure their app was up to snuff.

 

Now that they’ve officially launched and their app is actually making some headway in the marketplace, they’re getting dozens of angry emails every five minutes from unhappy customers! Why? Their app has a million bugs, it freezes constantly, and some of the best features don’t even work!

They shouldn’t have tried to scrimp on testing and error monitoring and neither should you. Now they have an angry mob in front of their office with torches and pitchforks ready to burn them at the stake! I bet they wish they bothered to test their app before launching, right? They’ll never make that stupid mistake again, or so I hope.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed our fictional three-step app developing process. If you go this route and follow these instructions, you’re bound to waste hundreds of thousands of dollars, develop an app that’s a complete piece of garbage, and piss off every customer you’ve ever had! If you want to go the right direction, high-quality software development, we encourage that more and wish you good luck my friends!

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A novel will allow you to enter a world of your own imagination. Once you get to a certain “fugue” state, you’re able to segue through the scenes in a given narrative in such an immersive way it really seems like you’re living in that work of fiction’s universe. But not everyone learns to read well enough to get so immersed.

Meanwhile a film allows you to experience an even greater sense of immersion. Instead of proactively advancing the speed of the plot’s unveiling with your ability to read, the film itself pulls you along. It’s the difference between riding a bicycle and a roller coaster.

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Beyond dreaming, film represents a perfect balance of immersive storytelling and freedom. Yet when you watch a film, there are certain ways to get into its narrative which will make you even more involved in the story. If you’re on the market to set up your own home theater system, there are a few things to keep in mind.

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Certainly your sound system will be a big part of it. You’ve certainly heard of that immersive
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However, a film’s point is primarily concerned with the visual aspect. To such a degree, as a matter of fact, that propaganda has become more effective than ever in modern times. You’ve heard the maxim “seeing is believing”. Fictional narratives today are so intense, many people use them to inform their real lives.

So if you really want a home theater system that is as immersive as possible, you want a home theater system that has excellent picture. To that end, you may want to think larger and wider than traditional television screens. You can get a more immersive experience more cost-effectively using projectors.

When you’re looking for movie projector screens, you want a solution like those available from ProjectorScreen.com, a site which boasts: “Over 40,000 screens and accessories to choose from.” With a projector, you can increase or decrease the size of a film you’re watching. Additionally, these can be directly connected to computers.

Surprising Options
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Then there are video games. These are a big part of modern society. It seems like everyone has one favorite game or other these days. With a projector, you can make that video screen larger than ever. Now, certainly, the brightness can be an issue; but there are many screens which are visible in day or night.

And let’s be honest: if you’re really doing things right, you’ll be watching the film in a darkened room to begin with! That’s the way to do a movie right. If you haven’t considered the advantage of projector screens, today they’re certainly worth considering!