Going Indie (eBook)
272 Seiten
SkyRocket Software (Verlag)
978-1-63625-959-8 (ISBN)
A complete guide to becoming an independent software developer.
From starting a company and staying motivated, through designing, building, and launching your first product and beyond.
Table of Contents
Preface
Who this Book Is For
Who This Book Is Not For
What You'll Learn
License
How to Make an Attribution
Conventions Used in This Book
How to Contact Me
You & Your Product & Your Company
The Dream
Independence and Success
Our Approach
What is Success?
The Goldilocks Zone
Staying Motivated
The Right Mindset
Setting Goals
Tracking Your Progress
Picking Yourself Up
Reaching Out
This Sounds Like Work
Starting Your Business
Terminology
Sole-Proprietors and General Partnerships
Corporations
Limited Liability Companies
Locating Your Business
General Advice for Business Owners
Developing Your Ideas
Products vs. Services
What Makes a Good Service?
Market Research
Open Standards and Interoperability
Wearing Lots Of Hats
Pricing Tiers And Fulfillment-Driven Upgrades
The Minimum Viable
Estimating Timelines
Technical Considerations
How to Choose Technologies
When to Use it Anyway
Rolling Your Own
Putting it all Together
Exiting the Cave
Let's Design a Thing
About Nines
Why Uptime Monitoring?
The Features
Pricing Matrix
Architecture by Example
What We Need to Do
Hosting
The Web Application
Data Storage
Application Caching
Scheduled And Periodic Tasks
Sending Alerts
Payment Processing
Disaster Recovery
Auditing And Reporting
System Security
Honorable Mention: Bash
Honorable Mention: Turbolinks
Putting It All Together
Architecture Review
Useful Patterns & Questions
Building Data Models
Thinking in States and Transitions
Pricing Tiers As States
Using Transitions to Write Better Code
Hosting
Choosing the Right Provider
Environmental Concerns
Choosing the Right Configuration
Setting Up Your Production Server
Deploying Your Software
Living In Production
Wrapping Up & Showing the World
Marketing and SEO
Designing a Landing Page
Adding a Knowledge Base
Promoting Your Work
Content Marketing
Managing Your Image
Getting Noticed
Improving Your Chances
A Thorny Topic: Ads
Preparing for Launch
Beta Testing and Soft Launch
Improving Your Product through User Feedback
Handling Legalities
Getting Press
Press Releases and Social Media
Launch Day
The Aftermath and Beyond
Living on the Long Tail
Ongoing Promotion
Planning for the Future
Consistency
What Are You Waiting For?
Acknowledgments
Notes & References
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.11.2020 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik |
| Schlagworte | app developer • Business Development • independent developer • indie dev • SaaS • Software as a service • software development • starting a company • Start up |
| ISBN-10 | 1-63625-959-6 / 1636259596 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-63625-959-8 / 9781636259598 |
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