"Neil, how do you come up with the ideas for your digital platforms and how do you make it?"
This is a great question and one I've been meaning to post the answer to for a long time.
Since 2012 I have been working with my business partner on my apps company, Steve. He's not only a great guy, but a genius coder too.
We talk everyday and have done for 12 years. We just get each other - even though we are very different people.
Well..apart from...we are both on a mission to create something unique, useful and better than the competition. It's our passion and belief that nothing is beyond us and we will reach our goal one day.
My specific job is to identify opportunities and come up with ideas, then develop those ideas into a full flow platforms - highlighting the potential pitfalls and features. I also create the names of the apps, bring together the branding and the UI.
Steve then takes this from me and starts the coding process. This has become a lot smoother over the years as we have an awesome framework with CrowdApps - which has, and continues to, bring a cohesive look and feel to all of our platforms new and old.
I then work with Steve to test everything - going through every single process to sniff out errors and bugs - this can take weeks. Together we patch these and polish the product - and think about how to improve it.
We often don't agree - and that's healthy. Why should I or Steve know 100% what is right? We compromise and develop new branches of thought which spawn even better ideas.
This relationship is rare and is one I cherish.
Just look at what we've created together over 12 years...
CrowdApps.co which consists of:
- CrowdScreen
- CrowdList
- CrowdCard
- CrowdBadge
- CrowdZap
- CrowdQ&A
- CrowdGame
- CrowdBlocks
As well as
- Video recording platform - Camflare.io
- Podcast player and links page creator - pod1.co
- Private podcasting - podlock
- HUB - a polling and commenting platform
- A specific awards judging platform
and a few others that may make a return...
I'm super proud of us and thank you for the question, it's been a pleasure to shed light on how I/we work.
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