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Congrats! Hopefully single-sales days will soon be commonplace. However, be prepared for droughts as well -- I sell at app that sells 2-3+ copies per day on ave

Congrats! Hopefully single-sales days will soon be commonplace. However, be prepared for droughts as well -- I sell at app that sells 2-3+ copies per day on average, but sometimes I go 2 weeks without a sale and some times I get 20 in a day. There's little correlation between sales so what matters is long-term trends.

ent101 6y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience. Someone on reddit brought this up too, so I'm sure I need to prepare for the same :)
- Jugurtha 6y ago
  Hi. Maybe offer yearly or multi-year plans, possibly with a discount, to mitigate seasonality and make your revenue more predictable, so you can forecast and make decisions. Maybe you can also have a feature that allows someone with purchase power to buy an app for multiple users at once, so you increase the average amount of a "buy decision". Maybe a feature with a cart-like experience: I want to buy app A, app B, app C for user a, user b, user c. Maybe a feature with bundles and packs that are geared towards a particular function. Similar to a LAMP/WAMP stack for web development, you can have (App A + App Z + App D) for $n. Maybe a feature to transfer access rights for an application to someone else. I buy an app that I don't like anymore, can I barter? I give you that app, and you give me something else, like access to another app. Maybe a feature for "App of the day". I connect and I have ephemeral access to an app for that day. It'll help discovery. If I don't like it, I just "stop" the app, and it'll give me access to another app that I can use for the remainder of the day. It exposes me to more applications and increases the likelihood of a collision? You could then get data on apps I like and recommend to me applications I might like, with something completely different from time to time to pop the bubble. Also, congrats!
bemmu 6y ago
Clumpiness of randomness is always surprising.
algodaily 6y ago
Have noticed this as well. It’s important to step back and look at longer term figures (either monthly or quarterly revenue, for instance). If you check your numbers daily, you’ll drive yourself crazy. Similar I imagine, to how newbie day traders feel, obsessing over fluctuating numbers.

ent101 6y ago

Thank you for sharing your experience. Someone on reddit brought this up too, so I'm sure I need to prepare for the same :)

Jugurtha 6y ago
Hi. Maybe offer yearly or multi-year plans, possibly with a discount, to mitigate seasonality and make your revenue more predictable, so you can forecast and make decisions. Maybe you can also have a feature that allows someone with purchase power to buy an app for multiple users at once, so you increase the average amount of a "buy decision". Maybe a feature with a cart-like experience: I want to buy app A, app B, app C for user a, user b, user c. Maybe a feature with bundles and packs that are geared towards a particular function. Similar to a LAMP/WAMP stack for web development, you can have (App A + App Z + App D) for $n. Maybe a feature to transfer access rights for an application to someone else. I buy an app that I don't like anymore, can I barter? I give you that app, and you give me something else, like access to another app. Maybe a feature for "App of the day". I connect and I have ephemeral access to an app for that day. It'll help discovery. If I don't like it, I just "stop" the app, and it'll give me access to another app that I can use for the remainder of the day. It exposes me to more applications and increases the likelihood of a collision? You could then get data on apps I like and recommend to me applications I might like, with something completely different from time to time to pop the bubble. Also, congrats!

bemmu 6y ago

Clumpiness of randomness is always surprising.

algodaily 6y ago

Have noticed this as well. It’s important to step back and look at longer term figures (either monthly or quarterly revenue, for instance). If you check your numbers daily, you’ll drive yourself crazy. Similar I imagine, to how newbie day traders feel, obsessing over fluctuating numbers.