You want to launch an awesome on-demand solution, but how do you attract the necessary venture capital funding to get it off the ground? In short, you need to prove that your idea will work. In this post, we will … Read More
When you create an on-demand marketplace matching thousands of service providers with buyers of those services, you may be entering a market where the service providers are required to collect and remit sales tax on those services. Indeed, AirBnB is … Read More
We recently launched a new website for Toronto Crime Stoppers to inform the public about their initiatives and supplementing their anonymous tip platforms with a new, highly-secure reporting channel: SecureDrop. Toronto Crime Stoppers recognizes that whistleblowing is vital to holding … Read More
Developing an on-demand app is an exciting and rewarding venture that you can launch on a small budget, but you must be aware of several legal and regulatory issues to protect yourself and your end-users. This post explores several key … Read More
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May of 2018 bringing with it host of obligations imposed on any company with dealings in the EU. The GDPR is raising privacy expectations of companies worldwide. Indeed, … Read More
Encrypted communications are everywhere, from online banking to chat apps like WhatsApp. Put simply, encryption scrambles a communication or data transfer to stop people other than its intended recipient from reading it if they intercept it. Today’s end-to-end encryption is … Read More
When designing a business plan for an on demand application, you must account for the costs of the hosting infrastructure where your application’s data will be stored, served and transferred. Imagine thousands of users utilizing the storage requirements of your … Read More
Bugs! No matter how many times coders swear they will stop writing bugs, those ubiquitous creatures keep surfacing. Even with layers of testing defenses, inevitably, bugs make it into production, where users can experience them. The solution? Have contingency plans … Read More
Is your app ready for the future? We’re talking about scalability, which refers to your app’s ability to handle the increasing demands of a growing user-base and integrate the new features and updates it will need to stay relevant. Test … Read More