Couple of weeks ago I opened the App Store and noticed an article about a featured app called “Rakuten”. I tapped on it and got surprised by the idea:

Earn money when you shop with up to 40% Cash Back! Shop at 2,500+ stores AND earn Cash Back on all your purchases — it’s easy!

I downloaded the mobile app and started exploring it, then I realized I just discovered the cash back treasure…

1. Cash back in store

The app shows you the current cash back rates on all stores and allows you to link your credit card with a store to have cash back in store. …

Since I relocated to US and got married, I’m more focused on controlling my expenses and saving money, so I’m sharing with you some hacks I do (with numbers) to save more money everyday:

1. Do it yourself

The idea is to replace services you are getting consistently by doing it on your own, for example: -Ladies, bear with me here but you will get the idea :)- I noticed that I’m going to the barber every month to get my hair cut and buying beard razors to shave constantly, so, I replaced this with buying:

• Hair trimming tool: to do it on my own at home. …

Today is the World Emoji Day and I have to say “Thank you” to my friend Emoji, the smiling guy with sunglasses 😎.

Thank you for having my back at any situation, I write you to say “Hey 😎” and start a conversation with anyone, I write you to say “Don’t worry 😎” and send a message of confidence that everything is going to be alright, I reply with you when someone praises me and I want to show some funny ego with a “You are welcome 😎”.

Thank you because you are always there when I say “It worked! 😎” messaging my friends about something that just got fixed or when I just randomly laugh “hahahahha 😎”. …

I watch a movie every now and then, but when I finish watching a “good” one, I usually say to myself, “WOW! that was amazing!”.

And my definition for “good” is, a movie that challenges me about understanding its story. A movie that involves time: future-present-past, reality & dreaming, imagination & a little of science fiction, open ends & unexpected surprises. A movie that has “Aha!” moments.

But when I watch that type of movies, I experience a group of feelings…

The difference between reality & movie fades away

While watching, I hardly feel or remember reality. …

A Medium app on Windows, powered by Cortana & Cloud Syncing!

I really love Medium. In my opinion, it’s the best blogging/storytelling service out there. Medium simply reinvented the “non-microblogging” services again.

Also, I love my Windows Phone. The Live Tiles, Office & Cortana are making me productive every day! ☺

That’s why I started this side-project, “Mediummy”, a Windows Phone & Windows app that acts as a client for Medium.

Prioritizing Features

Before starting the development of Mediummy, I carefully thought about what features to include and what features to exclude -at least in the early stages-. Trello helped me prioritize features. …

A story about building simple & amazing apps!

If you are one of those people who follow tech news, most probably, you notice how apps -mobile applications- are changing the dynamics of the tech industry, starting from startups, ending by high-school students learning iOS development.

There are many -so many- apps on app stores, each app is providing certain functionalities encapsulated in a group of user scenarios.

What about apps that focus on only “ONE” user scenario, “ONE” functionality triggered by “ONE” button?

Yes! “Single-Button” apps .. and here is the general user scenario:

1. User opens your app.
2. User taps a button.
3. Magic happens!

Think about it for some time, an app that simply does a “ONE” core function!

Here are some examples about successful “Single-Button” apps:

The Shazam App

The famous app, that allows you to know info about any song plays around you…