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We helped a startup cut down from 3 development agencies to 1 whilst mirroring features across Web, iOS and Android, releasing all 3 simultaneously. All because of a little thing called React Native.

At Solid State we've been building apps for startups and corporates for years. With a big focus on rapid development I've seen all the mistakes, and made a few myself. This is my quick guide to bypass some of the horror.

When an idea hits you it’s easy to become obsessed with it - leaping into prototypes, raising money, and moving forward as fast as possible - all the things you’re ‘meant to do’. But what if it’s the wrong idea. At Solid State we’ve become obsessed with validating an idea first, before we get carried away, and it’s paying serious dividends.

I've been trying to explain what Docker actually is to clients, partners and small children (I’m available for birthday parties. Other entertainment - a food-fight about micro-services). The answer like most things is both simple and complex, and so here we are. Reading this.