We are Khwan & Simon, co-founders of Ling App. Every other week, we talk about our experience in the app business. Get actionable advice on app marketing, team management, technology and much more. If you're an aspiring app developer or marketer, we help you take it to the next level.
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In this episode we talk about our new process of hiring A players. As we got more applicants for certain roles, we added another interview to the process.
We talk about:
- Our current process of sele...
#62 - How To Use Google Analytics 4 To Understand Your Audience Better (00:15:21)
Today we talk about ways to analyze your app and web audience with Google Analytics 4.
We cover
- Ways to setup Google Analytics 4 on mobile and the web
- The difference between Google Analytics 4 and...
#61 - How To Get Funded By Sponsored Startup Programs? (00:18:19)
In this episode, we talk about sponsored startup programs and our experience with it.
We talk about
- The programs we successfully applied for
- What are the benefits of sponsored programs?
- How to a...
#60 - Monetize Your App Via In App Purchases (00:12:52)
This episode is all about in app purchases!
We talk about
- What types of in app purchases exist (one offs, subscriptions)
- How to implement in app purchases in your app
- Should you use your own ser...
#59 - Content Marketing For Apps: Does It Still Work in 2021? (00:20:10)
Let's talk about our blog today, https://ling-app.com/blog . It's been a wild ride from starting the first few posts about learning Thai to creating a content machine that churns out over 20 articles ...
#58 - Own Products Vs Client Work: What Is Better? (00:12:02)
This time we talk about our experience with working with clients. How does this compare to developing your own product?
We share
- The pros and cons of working with clients and making your own product...
#57 - Building A Great Company Culture Based On Feedback (00:18:33)
In this episode, we talk about our 3-monthly retrospective sessions and how they helped us building a great company culture.
We talk about
- The beginnings: How and why we started the retrospective wi...
#56 - How To Translate Your App In Multiple Languages (00:15:11)
Today's episode is all about translating your app, or app localization.
We cover
- Why you should consider translating your app
- How to find out what languages to translate into first
- How to find g...
#55 - Stress-free Productivity With Getting Things Done (GTD) (00:20:28)
In this episode, we discuss the Getting Things Done (GTD) method invented by David Allen. Simon has been using this method for the better part of a year, and has had a great experience with it.
We tal...
#54 - How We Built Smart Court (00:19:05)
While we focus on learning languages at Simya, this week we talk about an app we built for a completely different industry. Smart Court is an app that lets people book badminton courts easily. The ide...
#53 - How We Built Ling Live (00:19:36)
Time for another installment of the "How We Built..." series! This time, we talk about our brand new app, Ling Live. It's a platform app to connect students and teachers, enabling everyone to book a l...
#52 - The Value Of Team Outings (00:16:10)
Today, we talk about team outings. At Simya we're doing them regularly and are amazed again and again how much fun they are.
We cover
- Why we do team outings
- When and how we got started
- 3 example...
#51 - Khwan's Story Before App Life (00:18:01)
This episode is Khwan's turn to talk about her experience before we started our app business. She shares how she grew up in a village in the North East of Thailand, how she came to Germany to study an...
#50 - Simon's Story Before App Life (00:23:30)
How was our life like before we quit our jobs, went to Thailand and started an app business? This episode, Simon talks about his life story and some lessons learned along the way. Enjoy!
#49 - Our First Hackathon And What We Learned From It (00:15:09)
Inspired by the "20% project" famously once implemented by Google and other big names, we started to do hackathons at Simya. The idea is to devote some of our time to side projects and try to create s...
#48 - How To Buy A House In Thailand (00:27:25)
About 18 months ago, we bought an office building in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Our main motivation for this was to fulfill the capital requirements for our BOI company. It turned out to be a great decisio...
#47 - App Story: How We Built Flow Yoga (00:18:57)
This is episode is about our app Flow Yoga. It's a pretty cool app to learn Yoga. What's special about it is that you can configure your lessons in any way you want it.
We cover
- How we came up with ...
#46 - Our Favorite Board Games And What They Can Teach About Business (00:14:19)
A slightly off-topic but fun episode today: Our favorite board games! As LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman said though: Board games can teach a lot business, too.
We'll cover
- What we learned from board ...
#45 - How We Automate Our Business With Trello Bots (00:13:51)
Automation is the key for small business to succeed nowadays. We spend a lot of time and energy in finding new ways how to automate things to make our life easier.
Trello Bots via a Trello power up ca...
#44 - The Value Of Regular Team Feedback Meetings (00:13:39)
At Simya, we do a informal meeting called "Coffee Break" every 6 weeks with every team member. It's been a great way for us to give and get feedback, improve teamwork and make the team overall happier...
#43 - App Story: How We Built WriteMe (00:17:33)
Time for another app story! Today, we talk about why and how we created the app "WriteMe". It teaches how to read and write in a foreign alphabet such as Japanese, Korean etc. and has been downloaded ...
#42 - How We Onboard New Team Members (00:15:28)
As your team grows, it's getting more important to ensure a smooth onboarding for your new team members. In this episode, we share the process we use at Simya.
We talk about
- What to do once the empl...
#41 - How We Use GSuite For Our App Business (00:11:40)
GSuite is a great portfolio of apps you can use to make your business more effective. In today's episode we talk about
- Why we started using GSuite
- What apps we use and how to use them most effecti...
#40 - Being Business Owner And Mom At The Same Time (00:17:00)
What is it like to be a business owner and parent at the same time? Today, Khwan will talk about her own journey and how her life changed after the arrival of our little daughter Layla.
She talks abou...
#39 - Getting Things Done As A Business Owner (00:17:44)
It's not always easy to manage our time effectively when you're a small business owner. In this episode, Simon talks about how he manages his daily tasks and how his system evolved over time.
Here's w...
