Nowadays every edtech has their own app (already created for both type of model – Android & iOS). But for startups with a small team needs to focus on 1 model at a time and win one market to gradually shift to iOS.
You can have your own in-house developers or take assistance from 3rd party vendor to outsource most things:
• Sales (digital notification assistant) and follow-up support
• Curriculum designer
• Personalised chatbot for quick query resolution
• Any tech integration with your email marketing tool or promote your educational material (listed on Amazon as paid) can list for discounts
• User current status and which course he/she might be interested in is identified too
When is the right time to shift to an iOS-based app launch?
– The point where you’ve 500+ queries from users to have an iOS supported app
– When you see the consumption from the iOS users will be valuable & you’ll touch the cream crowd
– When you want to expand internationally and shifting to iOS somewhat becomes highly important for international audience
What extra tech responsibilities do you carry with the iOS launch in an ed-tech startup?
– You need to hire a developer who’ll constantly oversee the main operations (codes, design, payment integration, etc.)
– Hiring freelancers would work in this case (however, trust & confidentiality issues need to be resolved with proper documentation)
– Technical knowledge to a non-technical person where few of your team members should have the basic system & configuration knowledge that’ll help in emergencies & in absence of the main developer
Inputs from Full-Stack Developer of GenZDealZ.ai:
– A junior developer always helps in a deployment with the launch of any minor/maor feature to iOS users. If you have a big brand to be onboarded with the event registration flow to be shown, so having another junior developer helps
– Taking assistance from AI, if your startup is NVIDIA incepted, there’re many complimentary services it offers with good training to train your team to automate most tasks. You get many key insights & feedback to quickly the efficiency
Alternative to Not Shifting to iOS
– Geting a website (responsive to iOS & Android) to accommodate users on the same digital presence to make login & engagement easy on 1 platform
– Create a separate payment form for transactions & a HTML/CSS page to showcase only your products /services
– Leverage third party platform with extensions (graphy, canva, etc)