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I did some price experimentation with my app (Blu Graphing Calculator). I ranged from 1.49 to 3.99. I kept every price up for around a week. Here are some of my

I did some price experimentation with my app (Blu Graphing Calculator). I ranged from 1.49 to 3.99. I kept every price up for around a week. Here are some of my findings: - Blu was selling the most at $1.99 but the revenue was the most at 3.99 (sold on average more than half of what I sold at 1.99). - Interestingly enough, it sold much more at 1.99 than at 1.49 I chose to push back to 1.99 for the time-being to increase the # of users.

Ralz 14y ago
That's really interesting to know, your app looks awesome. May I ask how long that took you and did you make this in JS? I'll try raising the price of mine for a week and see what the results are thanks. Link to Blu Graing Calc: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/blu-graphing-calculator/764cce31-8f93-48a6-b4fc-008eb78e50d4 http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/blu-graphing-calc...
- tarekayna 14y ago
  Thanks :). This was around 7 months of mornings and weekends while I had a full-time job. (I quit a month ago to start my own thing). I built this with JS/HTML/CSS but the MathEngine component I built using C# (.winmd) and called into it from the Javascript. If you have any specific questions about how different parts are implemented, let me know :).
  - Ralz 14y ago
    Same I left MSFT in March to do my own thing! Not just this Windows App tho, it was just a side project while I failed at a startup earlier this year. I was just thinking that with the state of the how APIs were last year this would have been very tough to do, so I was wondering if you went the JS route since it was in better shape than XAML.
    - tarekayna 14y ago
      Nice, I used to work for MS too :). I actually went the JS route because of my skillset. I was was web-dev before I joined MS and never got into XAML much. The JS platform was pretty stable from the initial public release, I guess that's because it is built on top of IE which has been around much before Win8 came along.

Ralz 14y ago

That's really interesting to know, your app looks awesome. May I ask how long that took you and did you make this in JS? I'll try raising the price of mine for a week and see what the results are thanks. Link to Blu Graing Calc: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/blu-graphing-calculator/764cce31-8f93-48a6-b4fc-008eb78e50d4 http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/blu-graphing-calc...

tarekayna 14y ago
Thanks :). This was around 7 months of mornings and weekends while I had a full-time job. (I quit a month ago to start my own thing). I built this with JS/HTML/CSS but the MathEngine component I built using C# (.winmd) and called into it from the Javascript. If you have any specific questions about how different parts are implemented, let me know :).
- Ralz 14y ago
  Same I left MSFT in March to do my own thing! Not just this Windows App tho, it was just a side project while I failed at a startup earlier this year. I was just thinking that with the state of the how APIs were last year this would have been very tough to do, so I was wondering if you went the JS route since it was in better shape than XAML.
  - tarekayna 14y ago
    Nice, I used to work for MS too :). I actually went the JS route because of my skillset. I was was web-dev before I joined MS and never got into XAML much. The JS platform was pretty stable from the initial public release, I guess that's because it is built on top of IE which has been around much before Win8 came along.