Mobile app development in Australia, This is a real story of how you can destroy a fantastic idea by wrong decisions


Feb 2013, Melbourne 

Mobile app development in Australia, a decision that i made on my great idea. Idea of connecting peer-to-peer users in different locations in order to find each other and request/provide jobs. In fact, it was like a freelancing app for physical jobs. Even though my background was in IT as a professional Business Analyst I didn’t have any experience of making  mobile apps from scratch!



I was excited, full of energy and kind of unrealistic. So you might ask why unrealistic?
Have you ever had more motivation than knowledge and plan? YES, I was exactly there.

I started making the mobile application by myself, because Mobile app development in Australia is quite expensive. I contacted a very famous app company in Melbourne but they quoted me 100k for an app. Could you imagine how I felt. 100k for an app? A fresh start-up? What did they really think? Of course they wanted to rip me off. So I spent almost 10 days trying to code the project by myself, then changed the direction and decided to go with freelancing websites like UpWork.

Hiring a remote app developer

I found an UI/UX designer in Ukraine and started my prototype with a reasonable price.
He was nice and patient enough to apply many changes to the prototype, this was not a favour! This was exactly what made me unsuccessful. Basically, when you dream, you dream big! When you design your app, you typically imagine that comprehensively. Features and functionalities one by one were being added to the app. The more I asked him to add features, the more he said “yes, sure”. As a result, after 2 months I came up with a huge prototype full of functionalities.

Anyway, the next step was to find two developers, one iOS and One Android developer to handle the mobile app development. Again, I was lucky to find a nice iOS developer and we started. As for the Android version, an Indian guy on UpWork convinced me to sign a contract and give the job to him. So I accepted and signed a contract.

In the next post I’ll tell you what happened in the journey of mobile apps development in Australia and How I failed.

To be continued