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I'm working on technology related to this problem. I'm interested in hearing anyone's thoughts (ideas are cheap, right?) about the best way to curate the app s

by nirvana 15y ago

I'm working on technology related to this problem. I'm interested in hearing anyone's thoughts (ideas are cheap, right?) about the best way to curate the app store at scale. The biggest challenge seems to be that there is a very limited amount of information available. Marketing text, category, and maybe rating (Though I think you have to violate Apple's ToS and scrape to get that.) Apple already offers free-text search, but I think few use it. Most approaches so far have gone for trying to create a social network around app discovery, which seems like a lost cause to me (how many people are going to join such a network?) I could be wrong though...

semilshah 15y ago
My two cents - it would take a strong/credible brand to come in, editorially decide on categories and then rank the apps based on a number of metrics or pure editorial voice. Assume the content can be gleaned in one way -- then how is it organized and presented to the user?
ceejayoz 15y ago
> The biggest challenge seems to be that there is a very limited amount of information available. Not only that, but there are trivial ways of gaming it. I've seen a number of apps in the bestselling categories with four or five star reviews, but when you look at the actual reviews they're all one star because the app promises abilities that aren't possible. They just release a point version and use Mechanical Turk to pay a few people to review. I don't understand why Apple doesn't make reviews a rolling average instead of resetting it entirely with a new release.