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Ask HN: Is demand for mobile developers dropping?
I spoke to a recruiter the other day and she said that demand for mobile developers is not even close to what it used to be.
- tiredwired 10y agono, not in the SF Bay area anyhow.
- miguelrochefort 10y agoWith tools like Xamarin, Ionic and React Native, it takes a lot less work to build mobile apps. I strongly believe that we've reached peak mobile apps, and that we're going to see a lot less apps as time goes.
- smartician 10y agoCompletely anecdotal, but in case of the company I work for it's absolutely true. We used to have a mobile team of 2 iOS and 2 Android developers in house, and a couple of outsourced devs, and on top of that we were even looking to contract work out to third party companies (for new, stand-alone "test balloon" apps). Nowadays we have one iOS developer in-house, and a couple of Android devs offshore. And the third party contracts were scrapped when management saw the first cost estimates (some of them in the seven figures). I guess management has realized that mobile apps are another distribution channel for whatever service you're selling, and not a panacea that magically creates new business.