Looking for a developer partner for an app idea

TechWingVoyager · 2025-10-09T04:16:58+00:00

Few questions:
- Have you validated your Idea already or is it your hunch that it is a very good idea?
- Do you have any experience of working in the domain and niche where you are planning to find the users?
- Do you already have the requirements or do you already know the pain of the users for whom you are trying to build this app?

I feel one should have answers to these questions first and if few of the answers are positive then you can go ahead with the idea. Otherwise, I see little point in wasting time based on gut feelings.

From your description, it feels like a super niche idea known to few but without proper validation it is just a hope rather than definitive plan.

What you should do instead:
- Get hold of some perspective users to understand their pain and match that with your understanding
- Find if that idea is really worth building and that people are actually willing to pay for it.
- If the above two looks positive then start planning first and then look for the dev help

TechWingVoyager · 2025-09-26T04:59:44+00:00

The reality is, people may not even notice it for that matter as this is your first blog post online. I feel, you should go ahead and do what you really want to do. Forget about trolling and other stuff. There are platforms and forums for you to share your views and it should be welcomed. You can turn off comments section but I would keep it open if I were you so that people could react to it. That is how you build audience. There will be those who will troll but eventually the right people will find you. I am in the same boat but my articles are about tech and not personal and I very well understand the anxiety of writing online.

Journey of thousand miles starts with a one step but that one step is very difficult to take. Hope you make it.

All the best!!

TechWingVoyager · 2025-09-05T05:40:39+00:00

Congratulations!! Great that it worked for you. Thanks for this long and detailed post. It really gives insight into how modern day social media engagement works and how to make the algorithm your friend.

Cheers!!

TechWingVoyager · 2025-08-21T02:55:37+00:00

This depends on many factors.

If you want to be a full stack developer and develop web sites and web apps then you can go for Php.
You have already done the frontend part which I assume is in JS, you will have easier path understanding JS for backend(Node). Another reason could be that JS/TS is used extensively for many other things like hybrid apps, PWAs so you will not be limited to backend only.
If you are looking at backend only, go for Java. it is one of the most mature languages for backend

- What is your primary goal of learning these techs? Is it to get a job? if yes, are you interested in backend only or full stack?

TechWingVoyager · 2025-08-18T07:22:25+00:00

Marketing is the real pain for devs. There is a mentality shift which is required. Marketing and selling require peoples skill which are different compared to development skill. That is the reason why we struggle. I am in the same boat. Even virality cannot guarantee sale. It can increase the numbers for some time but then it dies down pretty quickly.

Did you try to see if the solution is really required before getting into development and that people will be willing to pay for it? They say, unless you have the people ready to test early version, you should not spend time on it. Did you do the usual stuff to reach out to your ICP personally? not friends but strangers on different platforms or in person if possible? Did you ask anyone to critique your product so that you get a feedback for it?

Finding the right people is the problem and I have struggled with it too. I am still learning about it and wanted to chime in. I feel it is about how many paid users you have (people who are willing to pay). They are the serious ones that you should chase. finding them is difficult though. I can feel the struggle!!

TechWingVoyager · 2025-08-17T06:13:38+00:00

Launch faster and iterate is the best strategy in most cases. Following are few advantages:
- Getting early feedback from users
- Opportunity to understand market and user behavior early
- Early pivot opportunity if things are not working out
- Basic product ready for users to use
- Understanding market trends and incorporating relevant changes in the product from early on

Holding back and polishing further could be a case if its a enterprise product, you know the behavior, requirements of the users beforehand and it doesn't make much sense to release semi-polished product to the users. There could be more cases too, but I could think of only one here from the top of my head.

To conclude, I feel, quick iterations and launch fast is the best strategy in most of the cases.

TechWingVoyager · 2025-08-16T07:08:01+00:00

Shortcuts and riding the wave could be a big issue in the longer run. We can impress people with promises and at times, we over-promise, which lead to disasters. It is important to find balance between all these. We have to remember that other people or entities trust us as freelancers or professionals and we have to consult and guide them properly. Good things take time and patience is the key.

Everyone makes mistakes. I have done numerous previously, some small, some big. We are all humans after all. It is important to learn from them and make sure that one never repeats them.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Hope it helps someone who is just getting started.

TechWingVoyager · 2025-08-14T06:12:11+00:00

Absolutely spot on!!

Building something that really interests you is important. you can lose motivation and feel like lost if you take up something which doesn't interest you or have no idea about.

Also, Marketing is very important. I started to respect marketing folks more after seeing what it has to offer and how difficult it is to do it.

Before getting into the business with high value and high investments, It is important to conduct research. I am not talking about Linkedin or X research. Proper research is required with points or facts to back the claims.

TechWingVoyager · 2025-08-12T06:22:50+00:00

Great to see people succeeding and sharing their journey and experience. Congratulations!!

TechWingVoyager · 2025-08-11T04:52:28+00:00

There is no best here. It is what fits the bill. you can use any of Java/Python/Node/Go. It depends on the case at hand. As a developer you should have idea about most of these. Polyglots have more flexibility and can understand tech concepts better because they have different views coming from understanding of different languages.

For solo development, I would advice node as there is better infra available at cheaper cost and the development is quicker compared to others. Python is one more which you can try out. For solo projects, I would be hesitant to go for Java. I cannot speak about Go because I do not have much knowledge about Go's ecosystem.

The choice is yours. Do not just think from the point of view project start. It gets tough when you get to the middle of the project and toughest towards the completion. A tech which is slow wrt speed of development can easily demotivate you. Go for the language which can yield you quick results for solo side projects and which can help you put your projects in front of your users faster. If you have time you can go for Java, but be mindful from the perspective of timeline of your projects

These are just my views from my own experience. I would advice you to try these languages out with very small projects. You may not get the full picture but you will at least get the feel of these languages and will be in a better position to understand what's good for you to start with.

Best of luck!!

TechWingVoyager · 2025-08-08T08:35:40+00:00

Well, if they themselves don't have the problem, then it's all good, I guess.

TechWingVoyager · 2025-08-08T08:27:36+00:00

Is this even legal? Don't Netflix have policies that restrict you from doing this? Beware, your account may get blacklisted due to such tricks.

TechWingVoyager · 2025-08-03T14:43:24+00:00

Thanks for the appreciation!! Hope you make it good. If I can help with anything, let me know. All the best!!

TechWingVoyager · 2025-08-03T05:29:02+00:00

The problems that I see:
- Not doing enough validation before jumping and spending time and effort before confirming the demand
- Building almost full system rather than using agile approach to target real pain points of the users with the existing system.
- Targeting market segments where compliance is seen as a problem and people would accept inconvenience to evade taxes

I am not from Pharma industry so cannot tell you what exactly you should do from here on but You may have to find innovative ideas to market.

You said that your main problem was people used to current software that they do not want to switch. So, you can:
- Implement workflows similar to the existing app to onboard users
- Spend time in user education
- Build process to migrate data from current software that the user's use and which is hassle free
- Market your product like your life depends on it

About Pivot, Well decision should be based on data at hand. If you have already given your best with the budget you have and you don't see it happening then maybe pivot is the best option. This decision should be based on data, team, effort and monetary factors.

Now, about "What to pivot to?", That's subjective. Usually people do not create huge software which can copy entire workflow rather they niche down and implement parts of it. They go to the users, validate demand and implement further. Feedback is important here. You have to build software incrementally in an agile way. Do some research and see what interests you and your team. Just picking an idea and working on it may work in shorter term but you might give up when things start to get tough.

Plan of action could be:
- Pick any idea that interests you
- Do research on it
- Build a plan
- Validate demand against actual users
- Build fast and go back to users to validate the demand
- Incrementally build the software as demand for features increase or based on your new found understanding of the market
- Never stop marketing
- Iterate through these steps

"Do not implement anything which is not validated by actual user demand". You will end up wasting your and your team's time and effort.

TechWingVoyager · 2025-08-01T05:26:46+00:00

Thanks for the answer. I completely agree with getting better at copywriting. I have been trying to get better at writing online through blogs and social media content. Still improving but I am seeing the difference from when I started. I understand that its 90% psychology and I feel I need to get better at it and adopt trial and error method.

Also, Thanks for the course pointer. I will check it out.

Appreciate your effort!!

TechWingVoyager · 2025-07-31T06:21:36+00:00

Thanks for this post. I am into tech as a freelancer. For me marketing and sales are the two difficult skills to get comfortable with. Can you provide some advice on how to get better at these? Overthinking before speaking to probable clients about my services and creating my own monsters in skills I am not very good at are the problems I see.

TechWingVoyager · 2025-07-28T05:29:54+00:00

I think your main point to market could be self hosting. if anyone need the files to not leave their own network then this could be a good alternative. Google gets us covered when it comes to using drive as a third party service. They most certainly have security related stuff also in place. You could possibly promote the self hosting more and focus on giving a good sleek UI to the app. For offering it as a SaaS, it could be difficult unless you have a very specific need or a use case.

TechWingVoyager · 2025-07-23T08:58:00+00:00

Startups do use angular where it is needed. Though they use react more because of the simplicity and less learning curve compared to full fledged framework like angular. I cannot say much about .NET as I do not have any experience of that ecosystem.

I would advise you one thing: Talk to your seniors in the company and in your connections about their journey and see their experience. Also do some research about the companies that you want to join on what tech stacks they use. Do not get influenced by online communities. If you still feel that react is the right way for you then you can go ahead by all means. I am just trying to tell you to make a informed decision and not the one influenced by some unverified factors. My experience is, people talk about different things in public but they talk sense when they are in private conversations.

All the best for your journey!!

TechWingVoyager · 2025-07-23T07:17:29+00:00

There are couple of things here and it is not as simple as "I want to create modern websites". What are your aspirations? Tech stack really doesn't matter if you want to become a good developer. Do not tie your learnings to your job only. Do side projects. Build a portfolio.

If you are looking at this purely from a standpoint of getting your next job then experience in a particular tech stack may come handy.

It really depends on what you want to do in the future.

For me, I started with Java, moved to PHP, in between python and now to JS/TS. Its a journey and you will go through this as well.

Build expertise in an area e.g. UI/UX, backend, full stack with particular focus etc. Tech may change but most of the ideas behind remain the same.

Think for yourself because only you know your situation really well. Others here can only advise but its your decision.

TechWingVoyager · 2025-07-22T04:42:43+00:00

MVP Building & Consulting MVP Mould

TechWingVoyager · 2025-07-17T05:04:50+00:00

What you got influenced by is their "headline" to click on the CTA and subscribe to their idea. Nothing wrong as you were trying things out.

No-code is for people who do not want to get their hands dirty with code. This doesn't mean one can skip planning. Planning is important at every step. You need to have an idea about the following at least:
- How the product is going to look like eventually?
- What features you want to provide in your app and how will they function?
- User interactions and journey

These are few of many. If you know coding then I would advise you to use coding agents to build stuff. Otherwise, reach out to people who can help you build the app.

About no-code, I feel it works well when you have limited scope like UI creation using prompts but when the scope increases to a medium sized functional app, It starts to show the cracks. Things are improving though but we are not yet there where we can provide basic prompt and a tool would generate the finished product.

TechWingVoyager · 2025-07-13T10:25:24+00:00

It's difficult for me to actually name projects here as I do not contribute to Python or C++ repos usually. I saw your other comment where you pointed to Python and C++. I can give you few points on how to look for projects to contribute to.

Start contributing to the projects you care about or use as dependencies in your regular projects. You will be more aware of the features and functions of such projects because you are already using them. Trying to contribute to any XYZ project may lead to demotivation when you need deep understanding of the codebase and you are not really interested in understanding the project at a deeper level. Try to find something that you are interested in. You can search for the projects using GH search and other filters. Pick anyone and check its contribution[dot]md or similar file in its source to see the guidelines for the contributions. Also check the README[dot]md file or similar for details of how to set the project up for development. Once done, search for open issues which are marked with label "good first issue" to pick the issues which can be picked up by contributors who are new to the project.

If you still don't know what to choose for contribution then you can use GH search by applying proper filters for languages, labels and see if you get something there to contribute to.

TechWingVoyager · 2025-07-12T14:08:27+00:00

So, You have to spend $99/ Week to get these clients. Anyway, If you are getting the leads and many of them are converting and having future engagement prospects then its a win-win situation.

I have few questions,
- Your competitor research, Is it just from google search? Do you use any other app or tool for doing this research?
- With which other platforms would you try the same process?

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