The document discusses common mistakes made when hiring mobile app developers, including failing to verify credentials, not interviewing candidates, and prioritizing cost over skills. It emphasizes the importance of hiring developers with niche experience, owning the source code, and considering future maintenance of the app. Additionally, it suggests hiring dedicated resources for better management and development efficiency.

1. Mistakes While Hiring Mobile
App Developers

2. Contents
1. Introduction
2. Not Verifying Credentials
3. Not Interviewing Developers
4. Choosing Only Local Developers
5. Choosing Price Over Skills
6. Going for Speed
7. Not In the Niche
8. Not Considering Product Lifecycle
9. Not Owning Source Code
10.Handling Out Of Stock Products
11.Repeating The Mistakes
12.Hire Dedicated Resources

3. Introduction
● Mobile apps play a diverse role in the competitive business world. From aiding sales of products
and services to marketing them, they have become vital for the success of your business.
● Almost every business small or big is creating their apps. It isn’t uncommon for businesses to
make mistakes while hiring mobile app developers.

4. Not Verifying Credentials
● You should never hire a company or developers without verifying their credentials. How many
apps have they developed in the past? Who were their clients?
● Try and download those apps they have developed and get the look and feel of it. If you don’t
like them, it’s time to knock some other door.

5. Not Interviewing Developers
● When you hire a company most often you are concerned about its reputation without bothering
to interview the developer who work on your project.
● Remember, the skills and expertise of the individual developer or the team has a great bearing
on the outcome of your project.
● Direct communication also allows you to share your ideas and vision with the developer/team
working on your project.

6. Choosing Only Local Developers
Local developers aren’t bad parse, but narrowing down your choice only to local developers would
be a grave mistake.
Remember you want a robust app and if doesn’t matter if it is built 5000 miles away from your
location. It is important to keep your options always open.

7. Choosing Price Over Skills
● Yes, cost is one of the most important factors especially for small businesses and start-ups when
it comes to selecting mobile app developers.
● But you should never commit the mistake of prioritizing price over skills while hiring a developer.
● There are millions of apps out in the marketplace and a poorly developed one won’t do any good
for your business.

8. Going For Speed
Mobile app development is a complex process. It needs the designer, developer, tester and the
client to come on a common platform and be sure of what everyone is looking for.
If a developer promises to create the app in the next few days, better run away as he/she has little
knowledge about the ecosystem.

9. Not In The Niche
● You must always preferably hire developers who have worked in your niche and have developed
apps for businesses similar to yours.
● Working with a developer/team who have vague knowledge about your industry and customer
behavior can result in a poorly developed app.

10. Lack Of Cross Platform Knowledge
● Mobile apps are successful when they are available across the platform.
● While you may start by launching apps on Android and iOS, in the next phase you would like
them to be available across other platforms such as Windows and BlackBerry.

11. Not Considering Product Lifecycle
● Mobile app development is continuous process where the apps would need to be upgraded with
time and bugs fixed whenever they arise.
● Many businesses are so overwhelmed with app development, that they completely ignore its
future! Never do that.

12. Not Owning Source Code
● You need to own the source code of your product at every cost.
● Often businesses fail to include this clause in their contract and it becomes difficult for them to
switch from one agency to another if the need arises.

13. Repeating the Mistakes
● It is human to err and make the wrong choice while hiring a development agency. But it is a
cardinal sin to continue with the same mistakes.
● If you aren’t satisfied with the end product, you should move on a hire a professional team.
Trying to modify and upgrade a product with bad core structure is a futile exercise.

14. Hire Dedicated Resources
Hiring dedicated resources to manage your mobile application development will help save time, effort and resources.
ValueCoders provides expert and remote dedicated resources for understanding your mobile application and
managing it completely. An E-commerce platform requires a detailed and planned approach for it to showcase the
products effectively. With dedicated developers from ValueCoders, you can ensure that your mobile application
clearly stands out from the rest.

15. Get in Touch
sales@valuecoders.com
www.facebook.com/valuecoders
www.twitter.com/valuecoders
www.linkedin.com/company/valuecoders
IND: +91 859 535 5175 1000 - 2130 HRS IST
www.valuecoders.com