Smith: Mid-Market Retailers Spend $250,000 on First-Year App Development
Sterling Smith · #19 Sandbox · Mar 3, 2025 · at 6:59
Sterling Smith pitches Sandbox Commerce, explaining traditional mobile app development costs for mid-market retailers.
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“If you are a retailer and you want to build a mobile app, in the case of a smaller retailer who's generating a million dollars or more in revenue. That retailer is spending a quarter of a million dollars the first year to build that mobile application.”
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