Develop my own business mobile app

VS.

Hire a professional mobile app development company!

After you’ve known all about the “Secrets of Mobile applications”; their different categories and their functionalities.

(if you missed reading this article, you can click here).

You might start thinking about a very critical question:

“Should I develop my own business mobile app, or should hire a professional mobile app development company?!”

Nowadays, it’s not that hard to develop your own mobile application.

Especially In the presence of dozens of free and paid mobile app tools to create and design your app.

In the first place, before reaching an agreement upon which approach to take.

Firstly you need to be aware of the cons and pros of both of the approaches available.

Without delay, let’s start demonstrating both approaches so you can choose the best choice for your business.

Scenario case 1

Develop my own business mobile app

In-house developing ensure some important privileges, in the upcoming lines, we will discuss these privileges in more details.

We will also discuss the threats you might face while using this approach.

1# No one knows you better than yourself

Having an in-house development for your app will assure your brand and industry awareness very well.

On the contrary to an ordinary mobile app development company who will take quite some time to understand your brand and your needs.

Internal developers will always know more about your organization and your goals than a mobile app company.

They will be aware more about your organizational core values, your history, and your competitors.

On the other hand, a professional mobile app development company will invest their time to:

1- Understand your brand,

2- Your needs,

3- Your competitors,

4- Develop a strategic plan for your business mobile app.

2# Smoothly approvals, edits, and changes.

Different from an ordinary mobile app development company who will have a bureaucratic routine for approvals, edits, and changes.

Having your own in-house development team will save the time you might spend with an ordinary mobile app development company.

The flexibility for changes is a really rare coin, in spite of any other ordinary mobile app development company.

With Elmnassa feel free to make changes, after all, we want to help you reach your potential with your project.

3# In-house development cost

In spite of the privileges and pros we have mentioned above for the In-house development, you should know the other side of the coin.

What is the price you will have to pay to have your own in-house development team?!

Recruitment process

It’s not an easy mission to recruit a great team, you need to have a technically minded people who know what to do.

The team’s size will be determined according to the type and nature of your team.

The more complex your needs the more complex your app will be and the greater size you need to recruit your team.

Will, you need an android developer only or are you too ambitious to get yourself an iOS developer as well?

Do you need a graphic designer, or are you going to use a customized app tool?

Do you need a web developer to connect your application to the server or are you going to have a simple offline application? Do you need one or more for each job position?

The mentioned questions above, are only the scratch for more questions you should ask yourself before starting the recruitment process.

Hardware equipment

Including (Top-quality desktop devices for the team; these devices will differ according to the user position and job requirements):-

Graphic and UX designers,
iOS developers,
Android developers,
Game developers,
Testers…etc

Software cost

Hosting.
Security.
Updates.
Design and Development Tools.

Scenario case 2

Hire a professional mobile app development company!

After we have discussed some of the pros and cons of the in-housing development.

Let’s talk about the opposite approach, which is hiring a professional mobile app development company.

1# Talented vs. Experienced

You might have the best in-housing developing team; developers, designers, testers, team leaders, marketers… etc.

BUT, this great team might not have enough experience through creating, developing and designing dozens of business mobile apps.

This dilemma will be enclosed between having talented people and hiring experienced ones.

Imagine your fabulous team facing a developing issue with your mobile app.

While they’re working their best to find the solution, this process might take hours or even days.

Hiring a professional mobile app development company could save you a lot of time, effort and searching time.

A professional mobile app development company would know what to do.

Correspondingly, you will have:-

Professional development for your mobile app codes.
Professional designers.
Professional user experience.

To know more about building a million mobile app, you should read our article

(Dream big with your “One Million App”, click here).

2# How much does it cost to hire a professional mobile app development company?

There are a lot of factors affecting the variety of price packages in the mobile app development companies.

Some of these factors are:-

Experience of the mobile app development company. ( the years of experience & the number of applications).
Size of the company; a small-sized company (startups) will have different price lists than bigger-sized ones.
Location of the company: a group of 10 developers will not have the same cost as developers from the U.S.A.
The mobile application complexity: the type and the features you want your business mobile app to have will determine the prices.

The more complex is the application and its features the more expensive it will cost.

Server connection and scalability: can your mobile app work offline or it will need an internet connection with of server backends development work?

3# How to choose a mobile app development company?

Nowadays, you won’t have the same difficulties to hire someone to develop your mobile app. You can choose to get a freelancer, local developer company or outsource development company.

There are a lot of do’s and don’ts you should consider before hiring a mobile app development company.

Some of these considerations are:-

1- Only taking cost into consideration

If you are driving by “cost” factor you either might end up by choosing the cheapest mobile app development company.

OR, choose the most expensive one as an indicator of top-quality.

Wondering what to do about that?

“Choose the best for your business mobile app, put your app first, before the cost”

2- Hiring someone with low or no experience

As mentioned above, you need to make sure who you will pick for building and developing your business mobile app.

Hiring an amateur freelancer with cheap quote might be tempting, but it will put you into a great risk later.

3- Not having a specific budget for your business mobile app

You will go after the top quality, so you need to study all the varieties you have in the market.

CAUTIOUS

It’s not an easy mission to hand over a mobile application from one developer to another. (i.e) some developers won’t risk fixing bugs made by others.

You need to pick the right developer for the mission because most probably he will be your last.

Having a specific or even average budget in mind will help you in the choosing process.

Beware of the hidden costs, be specific when talking to your developer, adding or editing a feature might be causing extra fees.

4- Poor User Experience

There is no doubt you wanted to get the most possible physical benefit out of your business mobile application,

But, you need to make sure your first priority is the user experience.

Summary

Developing a business mobile application is a delicate matter. Furthermore, It can either add significant values to your business or be a waste of time and effort.

Developing your business mobile application in-house is not a difficult mission.

It can actually save you a lot but will always have its pros and cons.

There are a lot of factors before “cost” you need to consider before choosing someone to develop your mobile application.