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Last time I looked the MS Store was just a sad catalogue of shovelware. Has it improved?
by hermitcrab 5mo ago
Last time I looked the MS Store was just a sad catalogue of shovelware. Has it improved?
- Gareth321 5mo agoYes but it's free and easy to link customers there. They don't have to interact with the store outside of your product's listing.
- hermitcrab 5mo agoI would be interested to find out a bit more about your experience with the MS App store. Do you get much traffic? Does it convert? What price range is your product? Is it a game or utlity?
- fassssst 5mo agoYou can also link directly to a web installer so customers don’t even have to ever see the Store app. The Store provides you a web link for a tiny exe installer, like this: https://developers.openai.com/codex/app/windows https://developers.openai.com/codex/app/windows
- unleaded 5mo agoDepends how long ago that was. When it first came out you could only upload UWP apps and hardly anyone used it, in recent years they've relaxed it a lot (you can just publish EXEs and MSIs now, fees reduced/abolished) and I see a lot more open-source projects using it now.
- hermitcrab 5mo agoI just had a look, for the first time in quite a few years. It does look a lot less dreadful than it did. There seems to be very little software for sale that is >$20 though.