Thursday,19 Feb 2026

How to choose your app idea: allocate a small percentage of your budget before building the final product.

 MVP Strategy: Focus on the Core Problem and Leave the Luxury for Later
The biggest mistake that drains startup budgets is trying to build a "full-fledged" app from day one. To save 90% of your budget, you must adopt the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) concept. Find the single, essential feature that solves your customers' biggest problem and build your app around it. If your app is for ordering laundry, the customer needs an "order" button and a map; they don't initially need a complex loyalty program, an e-wallet, or an AI chatbot. Scope cutting in the early stages drastically reduces coding hours and allows you to launch your app in weeks instead of months, preserving your cash flow to test real-world audience reactions instead of relying on theoretical assumptions.

The Power of Prototyping: Test the User Experience with Zero Code
Before writing a single line of code, you can build a high-fidelity prototype using tools like Figma or Adobe XD. This prototype looks and moves like a real app, but it's just graphics and visual flows without any complex infrastructure. The cost of building this prototype is less than 5% of the actual programming cost. You can show this prototype to real users or investors and observe how they interact with it. Discovering that a customer is having trouble reaching the payment page during the "design" phase will save you thousands of riyals that you would otherwise spend on programmers to modify the code later. At Admin Grand, we consider interactive design to be the cheapest and most powerful way to verify the viability of an idea and adjust course before getting bogged down in expensive development costs.

No-Code and Low-Code Tools as a Rapid Testing Platform
In 2026, it will no longer be necessary to build everything from scratch to test an idea. You can use platforms like Bubble or FlutterFlow to build a working version of your app incredibly quickly and at a very low cost. These tools allow you to build databases, user interfaces, and logical processes without needing a large development team. The goal here isn't to build a product that will last for 10 years, but rather to build a living "lab" to collect data. Once you see thousands of users using the no-code version and willing to pay, you'll have the validation you need to invest the remaining 90% of your budget in building a professional, sustainable native app, confident in your return on investment.

Marketing Before the Product": Test Purchase Desire with a Single Landing Page
Sometimes, you don't need to build any part of the app to know if it will be successful. You can invest a very small portion of your 10% in creating a professional landing page that explains the app's concept and features, with a "Sign Up Now" or "Join Waitlist" button. Through a targeted mini-ad campaign, you can measure the conversion rate. If 500 people sign up for the waiting list, it's a green light to start coding. If no one is interested, you've saved yourself 100% of your budget. This type of testing is called "smoke testing," and it gives you real-world market data on how receptive people are to the price and the idea before you even touch the keyboard to write a single line of code. At Admin Grand, we believe that data should guide the budget, not emotion about the idea.

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