Question 1

How Do You Design Your Web App After Reaching MVP?

Accepted Answer

At Rackless, we feel the best design involves both software development and user experience. Those 2 components will get you 80% of the way to achieving good design for your Minimal Viable Product. To get the rest of the way there, use tools like Figma to collaborate with your software developer to emulate other websites and apps you admire.

Question 2

How did Rackless&#8217; FAQ Become Rich Results SEO Ready?

Accepted Answer

In working with TheHopeLine.com, Rackless' internal software developers worked to develop an innovative approach to implementing Google's FAQ Rich Results SEO Schema for this FAQ section. TheHopeLine and other clients at Rackless now use this innovative approach.

Question 3

CTO vs CIO: What&#8217;s The Difference?

Accepted Answer

The Chief Technology Officer leads the software development efforts for a company.

The Chief Information Officer is responsible for purchasing software and designing the corporate systems and processes used.

Question 4

CIO vs IT Director: How Are They Different?

Accepted Answer

Often a company uses the title IT Director when the company either doesn't develop software and a title with the word Officer isn't politically acceptable. 

The title Chief Information Officer is used to signal the person speaks on behalf for the company regarding strategy with shareholders, board members, media and more.

Question 5

Where are Rackless&#8217; Software Developers Located?

Accepted Answer

Rackless' software developers are distributed between 3 primary locations: India, North America and South America.

With recruiting software developers around the globe, Rackless clients can staff their software development team across three 8-hour shifts. This allows them to achieve an almost 24 hours/day software development cycle.

Question 6

What Is A Minimum Viable Product (MVP)?

Accepted Answer

The term Minimum Viable Product was developed by Eric Ries in his book Lean Startup. Eric defines MVP as follows:

A minimum viable product (MVP) is the "version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort."

Question 7

What are the Most Popular Programming Languages?

Accepted Answer

The most popular programming languages can be broken down into 4 categories: website frontend, web-based application backend, mobile app development and embedded systems. JavaScript, HTML and CSS are the most popular website frontend programming languages. For web-based application backend, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C# and Ruby are the most popular programming languages. JavaScript, Kotlin, Java, C# and Swift are the most popular programming languages used for mobile app development. For embedded systems, popular programming languages are C, C++, Python, Java, Rust, Ada, JavaScript, B+, Go, C#, Lua, Assembly and Forth.

Question 8

If You Build It, Will They Come?

Accepted Answer

In building software or starting any new endeavor, you may face taunts of lunacy just like Ray faced in the movie Field of Dreams.

Jeff Bezos has shared that he uses the Regret Minimization Framework in helping him make decisions like whether to build or not to build.

Rather than focus on whether they will come, trust in knowing that if you 'don't' build it, they, most definitely, won't come.

Question 9

Should We Use A Software Framework?

Accepted Answer

Software frameworks help product owners, entrepreneurs, and executives get their software apps up and running quickly.

Why? Because a software framework is a collection of code maintained by expert software developers that serve as the foundation for your own software.

Question 10

Laravel, Rails, or Express.js: Which Framework&#8217;s Better?

Accepted Answer

We recommend Laravel over Ruby on Rails (Ruby) and Express.js (JavaScript/Node.js). We chose Laravel ourselves for our own internal software project, recently after comparing these same 3 software frameworks. In selecting Laravel, we chose to build our app using the software language PHP. PHP has the largest market share of all the web-based software languages (close to 80% of all websites use PHP). Also, Laravel is the fastest-growing software framework based on PHP making it a wise choice.

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