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Last year, MindK ran an unusual contest as a mobile app development company. For a whole month, we accepted the best mobile app ideas. The winner would get their product developed free of charge. The only caveat was that the app had to be small enough to be built in one month.

WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is an awesome new tech for video/audio chat directly inside your browser or mobile app. The best of its kind. But like many new technologies, it has some nasty pitfalls even for experienced developers. This is the story of our WebRTC chat app.

HIPAA is a complex topic. Technical implementation has many nuances, which hackers exploit and regulators punish. In February 2024, hackers broke into the United Healthcare CHC server, compromising the data of 110 million Americans. The alarming part isn’t the human cost, the sheer scale of the breech or eye-watering $2.45B of losses for United Healthcare.

There’s one thing that stops Single-Page Applications (SPA) from dominating all other kinds of apps. They can take forever to launch. This is a huge problem as even a one-second delay can cost you 7% of conversions.

Choosing the perfect payment system for your web application can be a nightmare. While mobile apps can get away with in-app purchases (for a monstrous 30% AppStore cut), web applications need a payment gateway to accept money from their users.

Payment processing services are the gateways to revenue for the majority of web and mobile applications. But when you’re new to online payments, the sheer amount of options seem paralyzing.

SPA vs MPA: what is better for your business? Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, GitHub, and Google services are all built as single page applications (SPAs). Yet, multipage applications (MPAs) still dominate the Internet. In this article, I’m going to objectively evaluate the two approaches as a CTO as a custom application development company, list advantages, drawbacks, and suggest the use cases.

Concerned about user privacy? Well, you should if you want to avoid fines of up to €20 million. GDPR compliance is a must for pretty much every software company that handles EU residents’ data. To make the task easier, we created an in-depth guide to GDPR compliance for SaaS platform owners and software developers.

For most companies, increasing app engagement provides obvious benefits. Engaged users see more ads, buy more products, and pay for subscriptions. Yet since 2023, mobile app retention dropped by 12% on average between iOS and Android. 30-day retention rate is at an all-time low. So, how can you reverse this painful trend to boost the ROI?

Single page applications (SPA) are all the rage now. Facebook and Gmail are just a few well-known examples. Everybody familiar with search engine optimization would tell you, SPA SEO is a nightmare. But you shouldn’t discard the tech as useless. Here’s why.

Has it really been a year? Challenges, changes, releases, conferences and charity projects — everything in just one picture! Let's wrap the 2017 year up! 

The speed at which AI tech is advancing today, traditional UI may soon become a relic of the past. The future, it seems, will belong to a new type of UI – powered by advanced chatbot scripts.