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I'm completely outside your target market but one thing that if you can identify would no doubt be useful: long term stability/viability of the app due to eg bu

I'm completely outside your target market but one thing that if you can identify would no doubt be useful: long term stability/viability of the app due to eg business model, company history, likelihood of acquisitions affecting it, (eg VC funded are much more likely than self funded), and even follow through to data viability in the event of a shutdown. Can the user get their data out and keep using it ?

evercloud 10y ago
Hi stephenr, That's a very interesting comment/question. Basically providing the 'hidden' details behind each app/company, info that the user isn't exposed to right away/before purchase. I've made a note of your suggestion and that's something we'll denefitely look into. Thank you! PS We've also been thinking about an idea regarding adding a coupon code feature, and perhaps even making the whole site revolve around this concept. Essentially users would come to our site to find exclusive deals for business apps, which would encourage them to use these apps - call it a Groupon for business apps if you will. Any advice re this idea would be greatly appreciated :) In fact, I'll add comment to the top
- stephenr 10y ago
  I think the key thing is not just the info - i.e. it may be reasonably easy to find out that a company is VC funded, or it may be a well known company like Google, or Facebook. The key I think is applying realistic expectations based on the raw information. Is it a small VC funded company with no apparent business model besides the ever present idea for VC's that "users === money"? Is it a Facebook clone of some other app, thats likely to be dropped once they realise they're skating to where the puck sank when the ice melted? Is it a Google app that's likely to be dropped in 12 months time when it doesn't provide a heap of useful profiling information instantly? Basically, the type of analysis any decent tech worker would do before recommending a new app for their parents.
  - evercloud 10y ago
    You've given me plenty of food for thought - I'll take this idea back to my team and see what we can do with it, I completely understand where you're coming from. Thank you :)

evercloud 10y ago

Hi stephenr, That's a very interesting comment/question. Basically providing the 'hidden' details behind each app/company, info that the user isn't exposed to right away/before purchase. I've made a note of your suggestion and that's something we'll denefitely look into. Thank you! PS We've also been thinking about an idea regarding adding a coupon code feature, and perhaps even making the whole site revolve around this concept. Essentially users would come to our site to find exclusive deals for business apps, which would encourage them to use these apps - call it a Groupon for business apps if you will. Any advice re this idea would be greatly appreciated :) In fact, I'll add comment to the top

stephenr 10y ago
I think the key thing is not just the info - i.e. it may be reasonably easy to find out that a company is VC funded, or it may be a well known company like Google, or Facebook. The key I think is applying realistic expectations based on the raw information. Is it a small VC funded company with no apparent business model besides the ever present idea for VC's that "users === money"? Is it a Facebook clone of some other app, thats likely to be dropped once they realise they're skating to where the puck sank when the ice melted? Is it a Google app that's likely to be dropped in 12 months time when it doesn't provide a heap of useful profiling information instantly? Basically, the type of analysis any decent tech worker would do before recommending a new app for their parents.
- evercloud 10y ago
  You've given me plenty of food for thought - I'll take this idea back to my team and see what we can do with it, I completely understand where you're coming from. Thank you :)