How to Build an App Without Losing Your Money, Your Mind, or Your Time with Amanda Spann

About this episode

Amanda Spann shares insights on how non-technical founders can successfully build apps without losing money or time.

The average non-technical founder loses $50,000 and years of their life trying to build an app. Amanda Spann knows because she's coached thousands of them. Her first app cost $40,000 and took 18 months. Her sixth one took weeks. The difference was a framework she built after documenting every mistake, every bottleneck, and every dollar wasted. She sat down with Butternomics and broke down why most app ideas fail before they launch, why AI won't build 100% of your startup no matter what anyone tells you, and why talking to 300 people before writing a single line of code is the move that separates the founders who make money from the ones who lose it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Butternomics

Guest: Amanda Spann

Topics covered

• app development
• non-technical founders
• startup advice
• AI in startups
• entrepreneurship
• business strategy

Keywords

• app building
• founder mistakes
• startup framework
• AI limitations
• market research
• entrepreneurship

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Organizations: Butternomics, iHeartPodcasts

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