The Biggest App Pitfalls | From Tool to Scaling Platform

Verena and Simon discuss the dramatic shift in app development: moving from Legacy Builds to "Vibe Coding."Drawing on data that shows traditional projects often cost $100k and take 18 months, they explore why the "old world" of 200-page specifications is now a liability. They break down the three biggest pitfalls of modern development: poor specification, underestimating QA, and the hidden costs of AI APIs, and explain how "Vibe Coding" has reduced development costs by 10x.They introduce the 5% Scoping Rule: a lean framework for defining personas, data architecture, and wireframes in just two days to ensure you ship a functional MVP in weeks, not years.Interview: Verena sits down with Ken, the Managing Director of Employtest.Ken is the founder of a pre-employment testing platform that helps small to medium-sized businesses verify candidate skills through a suite of hundreds of validated tests.Ken shares his journey of transitioning from reselling third-party tools to building a unified dashboard that now administers 75,000 tests per year. He discusses the hard lessons of "over-listening" to edge-case customers and why he wishes he had adopted low-code tools years earlier. Ken also reflects on the balance between AI automation and the "human touch" required to sustain a B2B company for over two decades.👉 Learn more: millionlabs.com👉 Follow us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MillionLabs