Articles by Misha

Outsourcing risks: How to get code quality guarantees

Thanks to the spread of the English language and several voice and text messaging tools available, the communication barrier between business owners and their offshore software development teams is less of a problem nowadays. As you know, the key advantage of outsourcing is cost reduction, and the best quality-price ratio is offered in Eastern Europe, particularly in Ukraine. But Quora and Reddit are bursting with questions about the risks of IT outsourcing, in particular, what quality of the outsourced product you get when outsourcing overseas. Let’s see into this.

How to monetize your mobile startup

Finding ways to earn money is a pressing issue for any mobile startup owner. Before investing in MVP development you should think about how are you going to monetize your app. Today we will talk about banner and native ads, paid apps and in-app purchases as main means of earning money with your mobile startup.

Startups solving user problems

9 in 10 startups never make it. In 42% of all cases the reason of failure is that users don’t need them since they aren’t offering any problem solving solutions. “Users simply don’t get it” is a childish excuse. You’ve got to take a serious yet flexible approach and build a problem solving startup, a single place to go for your target audience.

Useful browser extensions and web services for QA testing

In this review, I will try to talk about all the existing testing extensions, which can be useful for work of beginner software testers. I saw the information about testing extensions appeared very often at the specialized sites, and I wonder if they will be appropriate for the workflow. It will be basically the extensions for Firefox, unfortunately we could test only one of them in Chrome because of the circumstances. So, let’s begin.