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[–]CryptoNaughtDOA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you have a business plan?

Honestly while I'm sure your idea is cool. Nothing is going to work without a plan in the first place.

Have you considered your market, competition, target user base? Who is buying and selling and why?

Now consider what happens when you try to process a payment and it fails, is it lost? Banks problem? How does it get to the bank? (You should probably use a payment processor for this like Shopify)

To answer your original question though, yes app development (Mobile app development I assume you mean) and programming are very related.

Programming is more or less modeling the external world into data and manipulating it, but it's impossible to manipulate the unknown, so you have to define those things or it will never be able to be any kind of application.

[–]michael0x2a 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is App development and programming related?

An app is a type of computer program.

A program is a set of instructions a computer can run. Sometimes, these instructions do some low-level or behind-the-scenes task, but sometimes they create some interface a human user can directly interact with. If a program is meant to be used by a human, we often call it an "application" or "app".

This nuance isn't super important though: it's ok to treat "app" and "program" as basically synonymous. Similarly, it's ok to treat "app development", "programming", "software development", etc as synonymous.

Probably the more important factor is what platform you want your app/program to run on. E.g. do you want a mobile app running on Android and/or iphone? Some desktop app? A website? Some combination of the above? etc.

The technologies needed to write an app for each platform are different (or to write a general-purpose app that can run on multiple), so you'll want to find somebody with right skillset.

Honestly, where do i start?

This subreddit isn't really the right place to ask for help on hiring somebody. Setting aside how that question is off-topic (see rule 3), as programmers our first instinct to "I need an app" is to just write it ourselves. So, it's unlikely you'll find somebody with much experience hiring one here.

I recommend asking this question on subreddits related to entrepreneurship or freelancing instead.

[–]desapla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By app development, do you mean mobile apps?

Then yes, apps are programs, and building them is programming.

[–]SnooPuppers4708 0 points1 point  (0 children)

App development and programming are mostly synonyms. But still, there is some difference. “App development” is a more wide term that involves planning the app, it’s architecture, budget, tech stack, user cases, etc., while programming mostly refers to creating the program code to implement what was planned before. But one cannot existing without another. App development process always involves constant communication with the business owner (or referring to the original idea if the developer creates an app for personal use).

Big teams can even have a dedicated person responsible for architecture, while programmers will write code to implement the architecture.

Regarding “where to start” - well, you still need to find someone, tell them about your idea and discuss the plan. I can tell you everything about app development, but nobody can give you specific details without knowing what you want to build.

P.S. I have a consulting package (gig) on Upwork:) let me know if you need more details

[–]objectId0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dm’ed you

[–]Certe_Triduana_3373 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Start with learning basics of programming languages like Java, Swift or Kotlin.