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Not enough companies do this. User experience and ease of use is frankly one of the most important things (and this is coming from a developer). I can't rememb
by charlesdm 10y ago
Not enough companies do this. User experience and ease of use is frankly one of the most important things (and this is coming from a developer).
I can't remember the amount of times I've gotten frustrated with (beautifully written) open source software, but with a horrible complex UI that takes hours to figure out how to use. Those are hours of my life I'm not getting back.
Why can't stuff just work?
Disclosure: I've actually made a fair penny taking open source projects (not adjusting anything) and slapping a nice UI on it, doing nothing more than that. Good UI and UX matters and people will pay for it.
- ThomPete 10y agoAgree but if you want thing to work on appstore it become even worse. Thats why i pulled my app from the app store 6 months after lunch and instead are selling directly. Havent looked back since.
- charlesdm 10y agoHow was the revenue from the App Store for your app? How is it now in comparison? How do you market it?
- ThomPete 10y agoThe rev is the same. I was in top 10 on the app store for a good while it didn't do much to my sales so the benefits unless Apple decides to promote you for OSX are more or less null. At least in my experience. I realized that for the kind of niche productivity software I made Google is a much better app store. I mostly live of organic traffic and only do actual marketing once in a while. The best is when the product gets exposed to communities who are into productivity.