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For those of you thinking about making an iOS app for your startup or for profit, make a note of this: Making the app is the easy part, it's the marketing that
by brador 15y ago
For those of you thinking about making an iOS app for your startup or for profit, make a note of this:
Making the app is the easy part, it's the marketing that you really need to be working on and it's the marketing that will make or break your startup. It's the critical joint.
- wbobeirne 15y agoThis is a very important point. I've got an incredibly simple app on the market, but because of some good publicity, it's gotten some good download numbers. On the flip side, I'll see great apps that've gotten < 1000 downloads simply because the author didn't get out there and write to every blog in sight.
- brador 15y agoCare to expand on the good publicity angle? Was it a blog? Was it pure luck or a well worded email? etc.
- wbobeirne 15y agoI just threw email darts at the dartboard that is Android blogs. A few of them stuck, and people started to download. That got me some decent ratings, and it's kept going from there.
- Joshim5 15y agoHow did you get this "good publicity?"
- wbobeirne 15y agoAs I said in another comment, emailing Android blogs got me a couple of app of the day type things. I also stumbled across my app being the top comment in a fairly popular Reddit thread which I responded to (as the developer) which got me a spike of good ratings and activity. To be quite honest, it was a fair amount of luck.