Running a Mobile App Dev Business: The Complete Guide (Udemy.com)

Evan Kimbrell runs a San Francisco agency called Sprintkick, and this course is his playbook for starting a mobile app development business without writing code. It runs about 17 hours across 89 lectures. The syllabus follows a clear order: setting up your presence, finding subcontractors, building a portfolio, getting clients, writing proposals, then managing clients and your own team. It is really aimed at non-technical entrepreneurs and freelancers who want to sell app work and hire the builders.

Reviewers like the mentor-style teaching and say it gives realistic expectations of what running this kind of business involves. One reviewer didn't expect it to be so informative. The complaints are specific, though. One says the client-getting advice is thin, and another wanted a sample cold email in the email scrape section. That second reviewer finished the course still not feeling ready to take paying clients. A third felt much of it was about running a web dev business more than a mobile one. Most of the 1,226 ratings are four or five stars.

Age is the real problem. The listing shows an update in December 2025, yet recent reviewers point to mentions of Blackberry, Windows Phone and PhoneGap, plus old Netflix and Instagram logos. The proposal and client-handling lessons should age better than the platform talk, but check any tools and pricing yourself. One low review called the material common knowledge. For a no-code route into selling apps, it is a reasonable starting point among about 37,000 students. If you already run a service business, skim first.