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Making A Living (Comfortably) On The App Store (aka The Numbers Post #2)
- aditya 16y agoI wonder if Flower Garden is an anomaly or if there are quite a few indie developers that Apple's money machine has "freed"? Would be interesting if everyone was as transparent as Noel...
- llopis 16y agoI'm pretty sure Flower Garden is definitely an anomaly. It falls in that category of not being a super-hit, but not being a flop either. Check out some of the other sales figures by Nimblebit http://nimblebit.com http://nimblebit.com for games that did much better.
- DenisM 16y agoWhat's the point? It only attracts more competition. It's nice to be public when you can sell to your readers (hello Joel), but otherwise there is little direct gain in disclosure.
- dalore 16y agoIf you write about your app and release the numbers, you will get linked to from all sorts of places. So not just your regular users, but you will get new ones from people who don't normally follow you.
- DenisM 16y agoMostly software engineers though - people notorious for not buying software. Pagerank is the only benefit you can get from it.
- llopis 16y agoI think you gain more publicity than competition (especially if it's not something that can be ripped off in a weekend). Besides, to me it's more important to share data with other developers so it's worth it for me personally, even if financially it's just a wash. Not everything is about money :-)