App Life Podcast - Grow Your App Business

In this episode, we discuss the Getting Things Done (GTD) method invented by David Allen. Simon has been using this method for the better part of a year, and has had a great experience with it. We tal...

25 Jul 202120min

While we focus on learning languages at Simya, this week we talk about an app we built for a completely different industry. Smart Court is an app that lets people book badminton courts easily. The ide...

18 Jul 202119min

Time for another installment of the "How We Built..." series! This time, we talk about our brand new app, Ling Live. It's a platform app to connect students and teachers, enabling everyone to book a l...

11 Jul 202119min

Today, we talk about team outings. At Simya we're doing them regularly and are amazed again and again how much fun they are. We cover - Why we do team outings - When and how we got started - 3 example...

4 Jul 202116min

This episode is Khwan's turn to talk about her experience before we started our app business. She shares how she grew up in a village in the North East of Thailand, how she came to Germany to study an...

27 Jun 202118min

How was our life like before we quit our jobs, went to Thailand and started an app business? This episode, Simon talks about his life story and some lessons learned along the way. Enjoy!

20 Jun 202123min

Inspired by the "20% project" famously once implemented by Google and other big names, we started to do hackathons at Simya. The idea is to devote some of our time to side projects and try to create s...

13 Jun 202115min

About 18 months ago, we bought an office building in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Our main motivation for this was to fulfill the capital requirements for our BOI company. It turned out to be a great decisio...

6 Jun 202127min