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If Apple wants my $$$, I will just give it away.
A year ago I built PresenterMate as a fun project, to try out Mac development and because a cluttered desktop was driving me mad! Since then, the app only sold a few hundred copies. Instead of paying another 100 bucks to keep my app on the app store, I am putting it out there for free. Feel free to download here - http://www.presentermate.com/
- degenerate 15y agoThe "how it works" video on your website is blocked as private :)
- kirillzubovsky 15y agoThanks, fixed.
- pkamb 15y agoHow much were you selling it for on the Mac App Store?
- kirillzubovsky 15y agoI tried both, $2.99 and $4.99 and both prices seemed to work, although the former had more sales. That said, I still had people complaining that paying 2.99 for this app was waaaaay too much. Maybe I should've done what Starbucks does - call it a special seasonal drink and charge $5 a pop?
- YooLi 15y agoYour title makes this sound controversial, but it seems pretty straight forward. If as you said, you sold a few hundred copies at both $2.99 and $4.99, haven't you made enough to renew the $99 dev fee and still be ahead? Assuming 'a few hundred' means 300 (could be more) and charging the minimum you stated of $2.99, that's a little over $600 profit after Apple's cut. Pay the dev fee and you are still up $500. Doesn't sound like much, but match the success of this app (which I think you feel is actually a failure) with 3 more apps and you have $2,000 a year--enough to get a new, tricked out Mac every year.