Update: We have found a great new home for ZenFriend. The project will be in good hands and live on! In the past two years the ZenFriend app has grown to 41.232 downloads. Together we have completed 126.250 hours of meditation in 380.634 sessions. Wow! For me ZenFriend was always a side-project. I never wanted…
Tag: Mobile Apps
There is always a move
A couple of months ago, I played chess against a youngster (maybe 13 or younger). I lost the game. We both played quite bad, and I played even worse. It was quite embarrassing. So I took this opportunity to renew my love for chess. I tried some chess apps and quickly decided that Chess.com app was the…
Falling in love with Android
Last week, my 72 year-old aunt who is living in Czechia visited me in Switzerland. Thanks to her I am finally starting to understand the power of Android. It all started with her friend who saw a deal for a “free” Android tablet. He immediately jumped on it, not fully understanding that he just entered…
Strike. Clash. War. Crush. Clash.
Top grossing iOS apps in Switzerland (June, 2016).
What I Learned Building the ZenFriend Meditation App
In 2014 I created ZenFriend and documented the process in a detailed project log (see below) inspired by Amir Rajan’s log about a game that ranked #1 in the US App Store. Summary The most important metric is not the number of downloads. It’s the number of Daily Active Users (DAU) and Monthly Active Users…
How To Validate Mobile Apps
Great talk about how to prototype and validate mobile apps: Remember the purpose of validation:The question is not: “Can it be built?” The question is: “Should it be built?”