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The site says its the "ultimate" iPhone app discovery destination. I wasn't certain how it was supposed to help you discover apps, because at first it just loo

by superqd 14y ago

The site says its the "ultimate" iPhone app discovery destination. I wasn't certain how it was supposed to help you discover apps, because at first it just looked like a very long list, which isn't very helpful. Then I saw a filter, but the filter only includes a small selection of categories. That's not very helpful either. I'm not sure what the problem is that you are trying to solve, and what would motivate someone to purchase an icon on your page. If it was a viral site, then certainly the eyeballs will entice some to buy space. However, the site isn't a destination, and isn't novel enough to pull tons of potential "real" customers (if most people visiting the site are potential advertisers, it's not very valuable to advertisers, etc). So that means your site needs to actually be better at app discovery than Apple's iTunes. But it's not, or at least I couldn't figure out how it was. Is there some other mechanism for finding apps that you provide? If you are trying to replicate the novelty of the million dollar home page, I don't think it will work in this case. Do you already have tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of visitors to the site? If not, why buy?

enormace 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I thought I had all the categories as listed on iTunes so I'll look into it again. And you are right in saying why buy if the site doesn't have many visitors and I guess that's the hardest part in getting it out there. It might not be novel enough to pull thousands of customers but I just thought it wouldn't hurt to try the idea out.
- superqd 14y ago
  I think you may want to reconsider the URL as well. I know good domain names are hard to come by, but million dollar home page was a wonderful name. But only1414apps doesn't roll off the tongue very well, and doesn't stick in the brain very well either. Since it isn't very catchy, it will have a hard time enticing non-advertisers to visit. Just my two cents.
  - enormace 14y ago
    Again thanks for the feedback. Yep, I hear you and these are the names I had initially: "appiconswarm.com", and "1414apps.com" The reason why I included "only" was to create urgency and the word "apps" in todays world normally means an app on a phone... And there are 1,414 app icons available so I think it's the best I could come up with :-) Heck, I even purchased only1414androidapps.com just in case :-)
    - superqd 14y ago
      Good luck.

by superqd 14y ago

enormace 14y ago

Thanks for the feedback. I thought I had all the categories as listed on iTunes so I'll look into it again. And you are right in saying why buy if the site doesn't have many visitors and I guess that's the hardest part in getting it out there. It might not be novel enough to pull thousands of customers but I just thought it wouldn't hurt to try the idea out.

superqd 14y ago
I think you may want to reconsider the URL as well. I know good domain names are hard to come by, but million dollar home page was a wonderful name. But only1414apps doesn't roll off the tongue very well, and doesn't stick in the brain very well either. Since it isn't very catchy, it will have a hard time enticing non-advertisers to visit. Just my two cents.
- enormace 14y ago
  Again thanks for the feedback. Yep, I hear you and these are the names I had initially: "appiconswarm.com", and "1414apps.com" The reason why I included "only" was to create urgency and the word "apps" in todays world normally means an app on a phone... And there are 1,414 app icons available so I think it's the best I could come up with :-) Heck, I even purchased only1414androidapps.com just in case :-)
  - superqd 14y ago
    Good luck.