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Help, my iPhone app made it into the New York Times, what now?
So I have this app that has been steadily bringing in a tiny amount of passive income & then suddenly today I saw a huge spike in sales. I googled around a bit & it seems my app has made it into the paid Top 100 & the NYT has mentioned it.
My dilemma: this attention comes at a pretty bad time, because I'm working on a new venture & I really need to focus on that one.
Should I focus on the new venture & let this spike die out? Or should I try to use this spike in media attention now, & if so: how? I'm torn between long-term focus & short-term profit.
- the-kenny 16y agoCan't read it. I don't want to register.
- c1sc0 16y agoI can read it, but I'm outside of the US. Does the print link work? : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/technology/03atheist.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=print http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/technology/03atheist.html?...
- bdlang 16y agoI can read it just fine, I'm not registered with the site.
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- tzs 16y agoI was able to read it fine, and then when I went back a couple minutes later, it said I needed to register or log in. This is the first time that site has asked me to do this in months.
- jimfl 16y ago3. ... 4. PROPHET What issue to you see arising from this exposure?
- bdlang 16y agoI assume you meant "profit". "Prophet" is probably not the way the OP intends to go, what with the atheism and all.
- c1sc0 16y agoIsn't profit == prophet a valid statement most of the time? ;-)
- endlessvoid94 16y agoIt's always a VALID statement, it just happens to be TRUE in this instance ;-)
- ax0n 16y agoI'm pretty sure the wordplay was completely intentional for this exact reason.
- petervandijck 16y ago- you probably won't get so much visits from it - promote the story to bloggers/other press who may want to do a similar story on it. Offer them your own phone nr. and phone nr.s of other developers of these apps, make it easy for them. - keep an eye on your stats, if you don't have real-time stats, install them for a week or so. - make sure the site is up. - perhaps add a message to your site "welcome nyt readers" trying to convert them
- c1sc0 16y agoAny suggestions for a good real-time stats package?
- gte910h 16y agoI use appFigures.
- c1sc0 16y agoI don't think AppFigures qualifies. What I'm looking for is a tool that detects intra-day traffic spikes. Both AppFigures & Google Analytics arrive one day late at the party.
- edge17 16y agoLocalytics is close to real time. I track my launches with it and can see the spikes from certain big blogs to be clearly visible.
- gte910h 16y agoAhh, I see, you're looking more for a flurry type thing: http://www.flurry.com/ http://www.flurry.com/ Lots of the Atlanta Shops use that.
- endlessvoid94 16y agoFlurry isn't real time though, is it?
- KirinDave 16y agoCongratulations on your newfound fame. But I can't help but notice something startling in the article. Do people really still use the anthropic principle as a real argument? That's so silly it's almost sad. It's the logical equivalent of a double-ended knife; any non-trivial universe or solar system or planet is discarded by that misguided notion.
- phil 16y agoCongratulations! 1 Put "as featured in the New York Times!" with the best quote about you from the article at the top of your app store description. 2 Consider temporarily dropping your price and trying to convert more of the people that check out your app after reading the article.