Before you start your beta test, you must understand the difference between technical and marketing beta tests to be able to plan your beta test accordingly. These two types of beta tests have completely different goals and requirements and if you do not take their needs into account it can seriously affect your beta test…
Tracking the right metrics enables you to monitor the progress of your beta test and steer it towards success. After the test is completed, analyzing the data you collect from it unlocks further insights that you can use to improve future iterations of your app and its beta test. Besides the KPIs and metrics you…
With 15 million monthly active users, 70% of whom are in the coveted market of 13-24 year olds, Canadian company Kik is valued at $1 billion. Nearly a decade since it was founded, Kik is now taking bigger, more creative risks. Over the past year, Kik has pivoted from focusing solely on its well-known messenger…
Get an overview of bug reports across your apps from the past week Start your work week off strong with Instabug Analytics reports sent to you every Monday. See how many bug reports and unique reporters you received last week, and compare to activity from the past month. Do you need to…
Beta testing is a low-cost tactic for squashing bugs and getting early feedback from your users to help you avoid costly errors before releasing your app. In Clutch’s 2017 survey about the costs of developing an app, 32% of app development companies reported that the “testing and deployment” stage cost less than $5000. Naturally, the…
Disclaimer: This blog post has exceeded its fair share of exaggeration, drama, and bad jokes. Read at your own risk. This blog post is for 2015 me, for the ones who are not developers but who are working with ones on a daily basis. If you’re about to embark upon the adventure of joining a…
A new book, Startup Arabia, tells “the untold stories of the high-tech entrepreneurs in the Middle East who are creating one of the most vibrant and fertile tech hubs in the world today.” Written by Amir Hegazi, Co-founder of intoMENA Group and lifelong entrepreneur, the book features 22 interviews with the Arab World’s leading startup founders, including…
Keeping up with the world of Cordova can be a tough job. You need to have a reliable set of Cordova blogs or content sources to stay up-to-date with all of the news, updates, and announcements in Cordova. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the top Cordova online communities including Cordova, Ionic, and PhoneGap…
Many people who apply to a job at Instabug have questions about our hiring process as they usually see it as different to the norm. That’s why we decided to write a series of blog posts to share what worked for us and how it helps us advance. We all know that job hunting usually…
iOS 12 was announced in early June at the Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2018, and with it came a lot of changes, leaving developers everywhere wondering about how the new changes with the iOS 12 App Store would affect their apps. Apple’s App Store was launched ten years ago and currently has over two million…
Founded by a former Google and Twitter engineer and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Envoy aims to digitize office management. Its first and core product is Envoy Visitors, an iPad app that streamlines registration. The app handles everything from guest badges to NDAs and is used by the likes of Airbnb, GoPro, and Yelp. The San Francisco-based team…
Since Instabug’s launch in 2012, we’ve been helping thousands of apps squash bugs and build better apps. Coupled with Jira, our users have been able to streamline their development and bug tracking process from one place, which has resulted in a more efficient workflow and a much faster development cycle. It has become common, if not the…