The latest articles on DEV Community by imad (@imad). https://dev.to/imad https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F63332%2Fa5aab2e2-c315-4577-8014-3da5c826d41c.png https://dev.to/imad en imad Sun, 23 Feb 2020 23:10:06 +0000 https://dev.to/imad/free-mobile-app-monetization-kf5 https://dev.to/imad/free-mobile-app-monetization-kf5 <p>Let’s say you have an idea about a mobile app which hasn’t been created yet, a kind of social network where people can help each other in a specific matter and everyone can be brought to use it maybe few times at least in a while, but the app should be free because is kind of human service.</p> <p>How can someone monetize such app? Ads won’t bring a lot of income and are not welcomed by users, the only way I see is building a large user base and then you can sell the app to some big firm. Am I right or wrong in my thinking? Since this is the first time I’m building a project like this.</p> mobile app monetization sideprojects imad Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:10:37 +0000 https://dev.to/imad/career-first-experience-and-struggle-as-a-software-engineer-27ig https://dev.to/imad/career-first-experience-and-struggle-as-a-software-engineer-27ig <p>I just started a new job in a small startup after spending 18 months at a big public company (my first experience ever). I was working with a nice team but there was no senior devs and no interesting projects and sometimes no projects at all so I was just maintaining an ePayment website that I made with another junior dev. I was really frustrated there because I couldn’t see any possibility to improve myself as a developer and become a senior one day by working with a real dev team. So I moved to this new startup (with a bigger salary), I found that the web app was already made, some devs were maintaining the backend and some were migrating the frontend to react, I still don’t know what I will be working on but it seems to me that the big work is done, so we will be doing only maintenance and some small additions. </p> <p>I’m frustrated because I can’t find the right company and team where I will be learning and improving myself, I’m stuck at the part where I can only work on small apps by myself, but I definitely can’t work on bigger apps in the right way. I feel like my goal to become a software architect is threatened.</p> <p>I have an engineering degree in information systems, so what I like is building systems from the ground up starting from the analysis, the design and then development, I don't want to be just a java expert or a react guru.</p> <p>So what would you advice me to get the most out my experiences to achieve my goal? Am I worrying too much?</p> career engineering