STRV Blog

Tech, ASO, Marketing

When It Comes To Startup Success, Distribution Is King

Long before your startup hits the market, you must begin laying the foundation for its eventual success. This is by no means the most attractive part of founding your own company. But if you want to survive past the development process, the...

ASO, Tech

How To Leverage App Store Optimization To Market Your App

There are some 4 million mobile apps in the major app stores. Getting one discovered is one of the biggest challenges facing app publishers today. I learned this the hard way. In November 2013, my company launched a gay dating and social n...

Our Work, Tech, QA

Session-Based Test Management Can Enhance Your Testing

In the past, there were no processes in place for testing, and minimal to no testing was done at STRV. But that has all changed, thanks to Session-Based Test Management (SBTM). When you only have a few days to test a simple app or websit...

Community

Grads talk about STRV Academy experience

There is still time to sign up for STRV Academy, a special 10-week summer education program geared towards junior developers and designers. Applications must be received by June 11. . We offer four development tracks – Android, iOS,...

Events, Wrap-up, Tech

Wrap-up: Silicon Valley Insights with Amazon’s Sudheera Vanguri

Sudheera Vanguri dropped by our offices last week to talk about her journey from Bangalore, where she worked as a full-stack developer at Yahoo, to Silicon Valley and eventually Amazon Web Services’s enviable AI division. Sudheera, a sen...

Our Work, Community

Essentials of STRV Academy, Class of 2017

What do Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg and Steve Jobs have in common? Yeah, you're right! They all started their careers as interns! A lot of us at STRV started off the same way they did and worked hard to become the experts we are today. The...

iOS, Wrap-up, Events

Wrap-up: iOS Meetup with Viper and Texture Framework

Can’t get enough of iOS? Yeah, neither can we. Back by popular demand, we held a second round of iOS meetups 2017 last week, hosting packed houses once again in Prague and Brno. The lineup this time included Viper, Texture Framework and Sna...

Our Work, Tech, Product Management

Learn about Perfecting the Kickoff Meeting from STRV’s Katie Guernsey

STRV Product Manager Katie Guernsey, who joined our LA team earlier this year, was featured on this week’s podcast of This Is Product Management produced by Alpha. Katie and host Mike Fishbein discuss perfecting the “inspiration and str...

iOS, Backend, Tech

Server-side Swift using Vapor

As an iOS developer, I've always been drawn to writing even the backend of my own app so as to get full control over it. My language of choice when working is Swift, which just doesn't stop surprising me with its possibilities. It offers a ...