Project Settle Up is run from the beginning according to those principles:
- Mobile First
- Settle Up is most importantly a mobile app. Focus of the development is to create an amazing native mobile app. Web version and other channels are secondary.
- Release Early, Release Often
- Nobody can create an amazing mobile app from the scratch. We experiment and iterate. The downside is higher frequency of the app updates.
- Answer to every feedback
- Your feedback is very important for us, not many users are willing to give feedback and simply uninstall. We have Google Groups, GetSatisfaction, automated crash reports, analytics, FB, G+ and Twitter and we are active everywhere. Although we answer everything, that doesn't mean we will do everything a particular user wants. We need to prioritize.
- Open
- We don't like proprietary formats and keeping data for ourselves. Your data is yours and you should be in control. Users can export their data in CSV and SQLite, developers can build apps for other platforms using open API.
- Guidelines
- We believe that each platform should have the best experience. We don't agree with porting iPhone UI to Android and vice versa. Both of our apps proudly follow UI and other guidelines of their respective platform.
- Team is overrated
- The project was founded by +David Vávra and he is still an Android and server developer, PM, designer, marketing guy, support - in one word a singlepreneur. While teams work for many projects, lot of projects fail because of individual issues or lack of interest of the team members. I believe I'm more effective than a small team in the long term. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't cooperate with others - a company Bioport created wonderful iPhone version using an open API and helps me with graphics and marketing.
- Don't be evil
- Every project needs a monetization but we are trying not be aggressive about it. You can use our app for free with the most needed features. We think that if people buy the app because they love it and not because they are forced to, we will have higher sales in the long term and happy users.
Do you agree with those principles?
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