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Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace
Hi HN,
I built Stardust Store, an independent Android app marketplace as part of my ZISHU TRON ecosystem.
Website:
https://stardustapkstore.zishuai.cloud
The main idea is to focus on app discovery, rather than simply providing a large list of APKs.
The current platform has:
Editor's Choice
Trending and New Releases
Popular Apps and Games
Search by name, developer and category
Top Free / Paid / Grossing / Trending / Rated rankings
App categories
User profiles
Wishlist
Download history
Reviews
I built the project independently and I'm currently focusing on improving the marketplace based on feedback from users and developers.
The Android version is also available here:
Download APK: https://github.com/zishutron/Stardust-store/releases/download/v12.0.1/starduststore.apk
Privacy: https://stardustapkstore.zishuai.cloud/privacy
Terms: https://stardustapkstore.zishuai.cloud/terms
I'd especially appreciate feedback on the marketplace UX, discovery model, rankings, and what developers would expect from an alternative Android app marketplace.
- coretx 22d agoYou could let real people curate & attest their apps in exchange for free updates. If done in a clever manner, this would keep the bots & astroturfers out of your system.
- zishutron 22d ago[dead]
- lucb1e 22d agoWhat's the advantage over, say, F-Droid?
- zishutron 22d agoThe main difference I'm aiming for is discovery. F-Droid is very focused on free/open-source Android software, while Stardust Store is meant to be a broader app marketplace with things like trending/new releases, rankings, categories, search, wishlists and download history. I'm still figuring out whether that difference is valuable enough, so feedback on that is useful.
- lucb1e 20d agoF-Droid has discovery also, showing all new releases as well as the ones with the most downloads ('trending'). But it sounds like you want it to be more commercial, where you promote vendors who pay for it. Are users even looking for that sort of thing? To have even more apps be pushed on them than they already need in life?
- kryzz-ai-bo 19d ago[flagged]
- p32929 16d ago[flagged]