Writing on apps and money
What an app costs to build, how to budget for one, and what I have learned shipping my own. No filler, and nothing I have not done myself.
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Cross-platform
Cross-platform app development: what it actually costs you
One app, both stores. What you gain, what you give up, when native is still right, and an honest look at the six options.
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Budgeting
A travel budget planner that covers the whole trip
Everyone budgets the flights and the hotel. The daily spend, the invisible costs and the month after are what break the number.
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Budgeting
How to create a budget planner in Excel
The layout, the formulas that do the work, and the one thing a spreadsheet cannot do for you. Works the same in Google Sheets.
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Budgeting
A family meal budget planner that survives a real supermarket
Food is the line that breaks most budgets, because it is the only one you renegotiate every few days. A weekly planner, free and printable.
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Budgeting
Budget planner apps: how to pick one you will actually keep using
The three kinds of budget planner app, what really decides whether you abandon one by March, and an honest list of who my own app is wrong for.
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React Native
How to hire a React Native developer
A confident developer and a good one sound identical in a first call. Five questions that tell them apart, and the red flags worth walking away from.
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React Native
React Native or Flutter?
Most comparisons are written for developers. If you are paying for the app rather than writing it, only two differences matter, and several of the ones you have read are not true.
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React Native
What a React Native app costs to build
Most projects start at €5,000. What moves the number, what keeps it down, and the part almost everyone leaves out of the budget.
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Budgeting
A month to month budget planner that survives past week two
Why monthly budgets collapse around the 12th, the three numbers that actually matter, and a printable planner you can use tonight.