How To Make An App Like Instagram
Facebook's acquisition of Instagram for a billion dollars in 2012 was considered by investment analysts extravagant at the very least. However, by 2016 when Instagram was conservatively valued at $50B, the critics were claiming to be have been misquoted. But how easy is it to build an app like Instagram? The simple answer: It's not rocket science. It is harder, far harder. I mean, pariah states have rocket scientists enough to build missileS, but there is only Instagram in the world. And then there is that bit about Facebook preferring to pay a billion dollars instead of building another Instagram. However, if some reason I wanted to build a similar app what would it take? It is an interesting question, and very instructive for both entrepreneurs who want to know how to build a Billion Dollar App and mobile application developers who want to build scalable applications. Let's first at the business issues then the technical side of building mega applications. We will confi