Anton Baryshevskiy

“Do you realize you want to build a cryptocurrency exchange website at a time when Celsius declares bankruptcy, and Gemini lays off 10% of its employees? Are you crazy or what?” This is pretty much how your fellows might react to your idea of building a bitcoin exchange website these days. Admittedly, their fears are not without merit. According to Bitcoin.com, in Q2 2022, a myriad of crypto ventures have been suffering from the crypto winter. This results in massive staff cuts, withdra

With mental health awareness on the rise, the popularity of mindfulness is growing exponentially: the number of meditation practitioners has tripled over the last ten years. And researches predict $4.07 billion in worldwide revenue for the industry in 2022. Meditation mobile app development is one of the focus industries for Mind Studios. From this post you will learn about cost to develop a meditation app, possible pitfalls when developing a meditation app, and ways to avoid them. How did

In this article, we explore the development of VoIP apps based on our experience developing a secure chat and VoIP messenger for the Middle East region. Read on if you want to learn how to make an app like Discord, Skype, or Telegram. Future of VoIP apps In 2021, the global market for VoIP services was worth $85.2 billion and according to the Research and Markets, it will grow to $102.5 billion by 2026. The COVID-19 pandemic gave a big push to the industry that was already growing fast. T

Launching a unique e-learning website in 2025 is both an ambitious challenge and a smart investment. In a modern world, education has exceeded the scope of conventional schools and universities. Lifelong learning is now an integral part of succeeding in life, and numerous online platforms make education of all kinds more accessible for people from all corners of the planet. So, whether you want to build an online learning platform for teenagers, a website to enhance your employees' expertise,

What is a peer-to-peer marketplace, how is it different from other eCommerce websites, how to build a peer-to-peer website — you’ll find answers to these and related questions in this article. In our years of working in software development, we’ve dabbled in multiple niches, and eCommerce is one of them. In this article, we draw on our knowledge to provide some useful insights for those with a peer-to-peer marketplace development idea. And if you have any questions left after reading, don’t

So you’re thinking of building a food delivery website. Are you going to build it from scratch or via a website builder? Will it be only a mobile-adapted website or also a native mobile app? Are you sure you really need to start with a website instead of a mobile app? Thomas Eriksson was puzzled by similar questions when he appealed to us to launch his food delivery startup in Denmark. Thanks to the in-depth discovery stage, we figured out that a mobile app would be more convenient for users t

Be it music, video, or games, streaming seems to be the way forward for media creators. It’s so popular that the competition is getting a bit tight. How to create a streaming service that will have high chances for success and how much does it cost? What technology is the best for streaming, and what features to offer your users? To answer the question in the headline, we estimate the cost of developing a streaming service like Twitch at around $90,000. However, it’s not a number set in stone,

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of marketing for today’s business. Throughout our years in software and app engineering we’ve seen our share of marketing successes and blunders. In this article, you will get insights on marketing of mobile apps and what to take into consideration at different stages of your app’s life. Building a great app is only half the battle The market of digital products — mobile apps and web products alike — is huge, yet the pool of possibilities is even b

As the owner of a car rental business, you know that this more than one-hundred-year-old industry is teeming with ferocious competitors. There’s no chance to turn all drivers in the world into your customers. But there’s a chance to stand out from the crowd by creating a cutting-edge car rental mobile app that will entice new customers like a hot red Ferrari entices onlookers. In this article, we’ll share the eight most forceful hacks that have proven successful on all of our car rental app de

In this article, we talk about medicine delivery app development, how medicine delivery differs from a delivery service like Uber Eats, and what to expect when it comes to development processes and costs. Read on for details or jump to the last section to see a rough cost estimate to make a medicine delivery app. State of the e-pharmacy market People have never been as conscious about healthcare and medicine as they have become since the pandemic struck. One of the fastest-growing health-re

The principles of customer development were devised by Steve Blank way back in the 1990s. So why does every third startup continue to fail because of ignoring them? Customer development tends to be a painful process. It requires startup founders to shift their mindset. Instead of blindly believing that their ideas and gut feelings are rock-solid, they need to find gaps in their ideas, prove themselves wrong, and invalidate their hypotheses. Who wants to beat themselves up of their own will?

Building MVP is no simple task. Startup founders face great disappointment when, after months of exhausting work and large sums of money spent, their company fails to withstand the fierce market competition. Here’s what the US Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us about the survival rate of private sector establishments: * 20% of new businesses fail in the first year. * 34% of businesses close within the first two years. * More than 50% of businesses remaining after the second year close by