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App-solutely
by Vermillion
Build smarter. Launch better. Lead with design.Welcome to App-Solutely, the podcast for founders and creators who want to build apps that succeed.I’m Ken Vermeille, CEO of Vermillion, where we help startups design and build digital products that stand out and scale fast. Our work has helped founders raise over 25 million dollars and launch products that actually perform in the real world.After more than 15 years building and scaling software, I’m sharing what actually works, the insights, systems, and strategies behind successful apps.
Episodes
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Do my developers have too much access? API keys, admin rights, and what to check
Most founders cannot answer who can delete their company. Ken Vermeille walks master keys in codebases, API access risk, and how to rotate and lock secrets down. The Vermillion Podcast.
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Why is it taking 4 months to hire a founding engineer?
Most founding-engineer posts are a wish list for one person who does not exist. Ken Vermeille walks three real startup mobile jobs and shows the same break: the scope is a team, the screen is years and tools, and nobody is hiring for agent proficiency that actually ships. The Vermillion Podcast.
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Can AI Replace Your Software Team? What Founders Are Getting Wrong
Do We Still Need Software Engineers in the AI Era? (Judgment, Accountability & Real-World Incidents)Ken explains why some founders and companies are questioning the need for engineers as AI tools like Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Lovable make it possible to build quick prototypes, while big tech…
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The Non Technical Founder’s 2026 Survival Guide
Here’s the brutal truth: You can have the best idea and the best funding, but if you build the right thing the wrong way, you are setting money on fire. In this episode, Ken breaks down "The Founder’s Guide to App Development," a tactical blueprint for non-technical founders. Stop treating your…
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7 Ways to Tighten Up Your Mobile App Onboarding and Boost Activation
Struggling to keep users engaged with your mobile app? You are not alone. Every year, thousands of apps lose more than half of their new users within the first week. The problem usually is not the idea or the design. It is the onboarding experience. In this episode of Absolutely, host Ken...
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Efficient Growth: Scaling Your App to 10,000 Users
In this insightful episode of App-Solutely, hosted by Ken Vermeille, listeners are given a straightforward blueprint for scaling their application's user base from 1,000 to 10,000 users without breaking the bank. Ken emphasizes the importance of smart, sustainable growth strategies that involve...
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The Entrepreneur's Guide to a Stellar Tech Minimum Viable Product
Avoiding Common Mistakes in Building your First Tech Startup MVP Ken Vermeille discusses the common mistakes and pitfalls founders often make when building their first minimum viable product (MVP). Topics include the importance of flexibility to revise initial ideas based on market feedback, the...
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How to build a top tier Onboarding Process For Your Mobile App
This episode of App-Solutely is a game-changer for startup founders who want to create an excellent onboarding experience. Join Ken Vermille as he guides you through the essential steps to create an engaging and effective onboarding process for your mobile app. Discover the common pitfalls, best...
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Scaling Success: Balancing Basics, AI, and Brand in Your 2024 Startup'
Welcome to 'App-Solultely', where we delve deep into the heart of scaling tech startups. In this episode, titled 'Scaling Success: Balancing Basics, AI, and Brand in Your 2024 Startup', we strip back the complexities of growth to focus on what truly matters. Hosted by Ken Vermeille, CEO of...
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Designing User-Friendly Mobile Apps: Tips, Tricks and User-Feedback Strategies
In this episode, Ken Vermeille discusses the importance of user-friendly navigation and usability in mobile app development. He highlights the need for clear and intuitive interfaces, using user feedback for continuous improvement and maintaining consistency in design, with an emphasis on the...
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Building Super Awesome Mobile Applications: Top 5 Things You Need to Know
In this episode, host Ken guides listeners through the crucial steps and insights to consider before diving into the development of a mobile application. These five tips help in refining an app idea into a robust, marketable product that can potentially become the next big thing in the app...
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ERIN ESSEX
Listen to Erin Essex give the process of her becoming a Senior Interaction designer at Google. To be a guest on the show send an email to [email protected]
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Josh Bachynski
Josh Bachynski Chats with us about The Future in Ai. Main topics discussed in this podcast: Ai New Ai coming out Chatgpt The Future for Web development What are your Thoughts on AI? To be a guest on the show send an email to [email protected]
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Bonnie Mauldin Founder of Fast Dot
Bonnie Mauldin is The Founder of the Fast Dot game and The Mauldin Group. Listen to Bonnie explain her journey of Fast Dot.
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Focusing on Customer Pains Is the Key to Building Exceptional Products
Are you a startup founder looking to build a successful product? Do you want to know the secret to creating something that customers will love to use? Look no further than customer pain points. In this podcast, we explore the power of identifying and addressing customer pains as a means of…
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Why Product Market Fit is Overrated and Problem Solution Fit is the Real MVP
In a world where everyone wants to be the next unicorn startup, it's easy to get caught up in the hype of product-market fit. But let's be real, creating a product that customers actually want is harder than it looks. That's why we're here to tell you that problem solution fit is the new black.…
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Flutter or React Native?
Are you a mobile app developer trying to decide between Flutter and React Native? Tune in to our latest podcast episode where we dive deep into the pros and cons of both frameworks. Our expert guests will share their experiences and insights, giving you valuable information to help you make an...
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Nontechnical Founder's Guide to Hiring an App Developer
You have a great idea for a mobile app. You know it has the potential to disrupt the market and shoot to the top of the app charts. Unfortunately, you don’t have a single bit of technical knowledge to build it. They say that the best idea tends to win out. But that’s only true if you also have…
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Startup Roadmap: Launching a Successful SaaS Business
Launching a successful SaaS business is hard. You need to identify your target audience, create the right value proposition, find the perfect pricing model for your customers and have a long-term plan for monetization. And remember that you can't launch without first having the right team in…
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5 Smart Steps to Hiring a Developer for Your Startup
This podcast will walk through 5 smart steps that will help you hire the perfect developer for your startup. We'll cover everything from finding the right person for the job all the way through getting their first day on-site off on the right foot. These tips are based on our experience of…
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Does Your Product Fit Your Market
Many entrepreneurs who heavily invest in their business think they have found product/market fit when they really haven’t. It can be a disastrous issue when they begin hiring staff and optimizing their product before they figured out who actually needs what they made. You only really reach…
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User Acquisition Tips for Your App
The user acquisition strategy for apps is a crucial part of app development, as it will help you reach the top of different app stores and be noticed by users. These are some of the best ways to create a user acquisition strategy for an app using Facebook ads, Google Adwords, or video ads on...
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More than 99% of Apps Fail. How Do You Ensure Yours Doesn’t?
Taking the time to validate your app idea is useful for a whole host of reasons. However, people tend to get excited and rush into the development process, investing deeply into an app that might not even work. In this podcast, we’ll take a look at how you can validate your app idea before you...
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3 Reasons Why You May Not Need To Build An App Anymore
Progressive apps are a new way of building cross-platform applications rather than sticking to the old methods. For example, if in past instances where you had an idea for an app, you were usually relegated to one platform such as building it for iOS. If you were interested in providing your app…
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It's All About The Medium - What Startups Can Learn From Clubhouse
Clubhouse is a mobile app that has taken the mobile marketplace by storm. What makes this mobile app so popular? The answer might be in its audio-only medium. Listeners can use it while they are at work, doing chores, or just walking around town. It frees up their hands to do other tasks and…
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How To Hire A Mobile App Agency For Your Startup
If you've ever tried to hire an agency or freelancer for a project, you've experienced the headache that came with filtering through hundreds of potential partners. You've seen quotes that range from 10 dollars an hour to 500 dollars an hour. Hiring an agency for your startup can be a challenging...
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5 Things Humans Hate About Your App and How to Fix Them
When building apps, you need to understand that there is a human on the other side of the screen. That human has needs, wants, dreams, and goals. Entrepreneurs however sometimes create solutions that they believe benefit their bottom line but in reality, it alienates users. I want to help you...
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Native App Vs Web App What Should You Build for Your Startup
Native app or web app. What should you build for your startup. On this episode of absolutely, we talk about the difference between a native app, an app. And which one you should build for your startup.
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The Ultimate Guide To Creating An App That Gets Funded
There are 3.48 million apps on the App Store. 99% of them are unsuccessful. This is because their creators built the wrong app. Their app doesn't resonate with their audience and ultimately it failed. You can avoid this fate by creating an app that people love. This guide takes you through the...
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How Much Should You Pay for Your Minimum Viable Product?
If you've ever wanted to hire a mobile app agency or a freelancer to build your MVP (minimal viable product), you've probably been hit with prices anywhere between $500 and $1,000,000. That's a huge gap! During the early stages of your product, your goal is to build an MVP to validate your…
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What Billionaire Space Travelers Can Teach App Founders About Early Adopters
Billionaires in spaaaaaace! Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk can teach us about how new technologies use early adopters, and how they can help with your startup. Bezos, Brandson, and Musk are essentially the early adopters of space tourism. Soon, space tourism will be available to the...
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Your App Is A Business
When people think about apps, they usually think about it as a product. I have news for you, your app isn't a product it's a business. The most important thing that your app needs to do is generate revenue. Without revenue, you won't have a business. As soon as your app generates revenue, then it...
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We're Back
Hi podcast followers, It's me, your host, Ken. "App-solutely" is back on the air and we have a ton of new episodes waiting for you! We are inviting you to take this journey with us, where together we are trying to figure out just what is going on with apps and how to build products that people…
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How to start building your product - Kim Alban
Kim and Ken talk about the first steps needed to build an app that people love. We talk about the concrete steps needed for customer research, feature development, and building your first prototype.
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How to Raise Money From Private Investors with Noble A. DraKoln
Noble is a crowdfunding and capital raising consultant, publisher of “Accredited Investor Journal”, author of the best selling books “Trade Like a Pro” and “Winning the Trading Game” and the managing director of Drakoln Capital Partners. We go through the specifics of raising money from private...
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What You Need to Know Before Getting VC Funding with Sam Batista
Sam is a founder, investor, and startup strategist who is currently working at Promotora Social Mexico ('PSM'), based in Mexico City. PSM invests in profitable and scalable Latin American companies that, through their business model, generate well-being and improvement in the livelihood and...
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What Founders Need To Know Before Starting Up
In our weekly Tech Entrepreneur Office Hours, Vermillion Sky's Ken Vermeille and Laura Shcaack talk about everything founders need to know before jumping into the startup world.
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Tech Entrepreneur Office Hours - July 17, 2020
This is our weekly Friday office hours with Ken Vermeille. At Vermillion Sky we want to help entrepreneurs build the best mobile and web applications in the galaxy. Vermillion Sky is a mobile and web design and development agency for startups and entrepreneurs.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Build smarter. Launch better. Lead with design.Welcome to App-Solutely, the podcast for founders and creators who want to build apps that succeed.I’m Ken Vermeille, CEO of Vermillion, where we help startups design and build digital products that stand out and scale fast. Our work has helped founders raise over 25 million dollars and launch products that actually perform in the real world.After more than 15 years building and scaling software, I’m sharing what actually works, the insights, systems, and strategies behind successful apps.
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Build smarter. Launch better. Lead with design.Welcome to App-Solutely, the podcast for founders and creators who want to build apps that succeed.I’m Ken Vermeille, CEO of Vermillion, where we help startups design and build digital products that stand out and scale fast. Our work has helped...
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