Steps and Strategies Involved in Validating Your App Idea

Potential App Ideation For a Successful Business

To make your mobile application a successful tool for your business development, you have to ensure the app is capable of supporting the same. How? You know that an efficient development process must be followed to make your application flawless. But there are things to be done and checked out even before starting to build an app. 

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You must have a proper application objective and an idea of why you are developing a particular application. When the app ideation principle is rightly followed you don’t have to worry about your application. Wait, it doesn’t end just there. You have come up with an app idea but how well will that idea serve you when executed? Will it be as your users expect? Will it serve the sole purpose of why you are building this application? Is it worth it?

To answer all these questions, you have to validate our app idea. This is the most crucial part of app development missed out on by most of the developers. As soon as you ideate your app, the next best thing you should be doing is to validate it. Missing out on this can bring you unnecessary heartaches and wasted investment. 

People depend on using applications for even their daily chores. They expect convenience, time-saving, and affordable qualities. And, on top of all attractive, easy to use, and purposeful apps. How will you find out if your app idea supports all these aspects? The below sections deal with the steps and strategies involved in validating your app idea which will give you all the answers you need.

Steps Involved in Validating Your App Idea

Every mobile app development company should follow this app idea validation process to make sure every aspect is uncovered in the discovery stage itself. The three steps involved in validating your app idea are as follows,

1. App Ideation

The first step is to come up with an app idea. If you are aware of the purpose of app development, then you can easily nail down your app’s idea. To get huge ROI and increase your business sales, app ideation is the key. Here is what you should check out to arrive at an impeccable idea,

• Check out the similar purpose apps

• Check the review sites for their feedback

• Find out which of the apps are doing better

• List down their gaps or cons and make a way to fill those gaps in your application

This will let you settle down for a wonderful app idea!

2. Viability Study

Now you know that you have a clear understanding of why you need to develop this application and you have come up with an app idea too. The next step is to check if the app will be viable.

You would have engaged in studying your app ideation, relative terms, and documents. The amount that cost will explain to you if the app is good enough to serve its purpose. Also, the overall validation cost will also give you an idea about the worth of your application idea.

3. Market Fit Assessment

The next step is to assess if your app idea is fit for entering the market. This will be decided by the features you have decided to add to your application and the business model you are about to go with for your app development. 

Check out the similar apps, their engaging features, and functionalities, compare them with your ideas, align them with the market trends and user expectations and perform modifications to your idea if needed. 

Strategies Involved in Validating Your App Idea

The competition in the mobile app market is more than tough to handle. With tech advancements, increasing demands, and feature-rich apps getting into the market daily, creating an innovative application with a unique idea and purpose is not that easy. 

Instead of developing an application, realizing it is a failure, and then starting from scratch to wholly modify it, you can follow these app idea validation strategies and save both money and time. Through this, you will get to know if your idea is worth investing in and if it will be a source of increased business revenue. 

1. Keyword Research

Search for the top relative issues people face with the objective or main goal of your application. This will help you know about the market opportunities for your business and application. You can get an idea about how deep the issue is faced by the users and how they are currently solving it. You can also know about the apps that are solving this problem if they exist. Through this, you will know what all you are enhancing, what should be your target keywords to be included, what should you mainly address, and others.

2. Feedback From Users

Through one on one platforms where you can interact with the users, reach out to your target users, and question them directly. By receiving solicit feedback, you can modify and implement those improvements into your app idea. The main goal is to reach the target audiences and drive your business. To do so your app must satisfy their needs. So, why not ask them directly and uncover the additional potential to expand your target reach?

3. Promote Your Application

You can promote your application even before its development and release. Yes, this is one of the essential strategies you must never miss out on. Create videos explaining your app idea in an outlined manner. Check for user feedback and what they feel about a new app like this launching soon. This is more or less like the film posters and product introduction ads saying “coming soon”. Through this strategy, you can stimulate curiosity for your app as well as get to know what people think about your app idea.

4. Create an MVP

Development of a minimum viable product reflecting the basic feature sets of your application helps you examine your app idea before the launch. You will get to know through users which parts are serving good, which are not up to the mark, which features need enhancements, etc., Choosing to implement this strategy will save your time, effort, and resources spent on it. 

5. Brand Recognition Building

After conducting assessments through your MVP creation, you should focus on developing your brand. Following all other strategies perfectly and leaving this as a loophole will cause a waste of time and money. To grow your brand is as important as validating your app idea and building an efficient application. Everything associated with your brand must be fully loaded with the essential purpose of your app development. From designs to features, it must all address app users’ problems as well as serve as your marketing tool for business expansion. 

Summing Up

Pondering the changes and updates you nail down during these validation stages and strategies, you can save your investment, save your valuable time, and scale your business to reach heights effortlessly. Make sure the mobile app development company you are about to partner with, follows all these major processes in-app idea validation cooperating with you. 

Make your business venture through mobile app development worthwhile by properly following the steps and strategies to validate our application idea!

Author Bio

Karthik Sakthivel is the CTO of a leading mobile app development company, Pyramidion Solutions. Working for the past 6 years in the Information Technology field, Karthik leads high-end app development projects by suggesting the best practices and principles to follow to deliver the best solutions.