Insights from people who build products

Of the 2021 technology trends, two matter when you build software now: automating whole business processes and taking AI from a demo to production. How to decide between a rule, plain automation and AI for each step.

Today, we’d like you to meet one of our iOS developers, Yaroslav. I always wanted to become a developer, so I chose programming as my major in college. I started with web development at school and later switched to iOS. I have 2-3 years of experience in web development and about 7-8 years of coding for iOS. In mysterio...

A buyer’s comparison of software development methodologies for a custom build: Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Shape Up, Extreme Programming, Lean Startup and DevOps, what happened to RAD, DSDM, FDD and Spiral, which contract goes with which method, and how to choose.

What customer development is, why it matters more now that building is cheap, how to talk to users without pitching, five questions to ask, where to find the first people, and a map of the four other guides in the series.

How to plan a travel app: choose the moment of the trip you serve, find where flight, stay and map data comes from, handle payments the way Apple and Google require, and work offline.

“Since childhood, I was going to an electronics club: we were building computers, soldering, trying to create our own games and programs.I tried different jobs but soon realized that programming is my passion and started working as a freelancer.I have been working at Rocketech for 2 years already, and it’s been great h...

A decision guide for founders: when a mobile app pays off, when a web app or installable PWA is enough, what the app stores add, and two products we built each way.

A one-hour Scrum fundamentals training for founders and product owners: what the 2020 Scrum Guide says, the three accountabilities, five events and three artifacts, what you do in each event, the mistakes that cost money and a plan to learn it with your co-founder.

Seven development practices fast startups use and a small team can copy in 2026: ship a narrow first version, test the riskiest part first, release small changes, give priorities one owner, use AI tools with review, measure what users do and give developers the problem.

Remember the Akler app we recently developed for our client? Akler is a language learning app that helps quickly get the basics of a new language in just a few minutes a day. During the development process we created a unique UI/UX Design. Our team built: Backend: NodeJS, ExpressJS, NextJS, RESTfulFrontend: React, Redu...

HR software pays off when it removes a repeated manual task and keeps you inside rules that changed in 2026. How to measure the gain before you buy, what the EU pay transparency, UK sick pay and EU AI Act rules mean for your system, and when to build your own piece.

Single-page apps, PWAs, AMP, animation, the MEAN stack and chatbots were the 2021 web app trends. Here is what each one means in 2026, how to pick the shape of your web app, and what a first version costs.