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iPhone App Sales After 3 Months

59 points by jcollins 17y ago

HeyLaughingBoy 17y ago
This is a useful app and certainly worth more than $4.99 to most people who need it. I wish he annotated the graph to show how sales numbers varied with the sales price. Personally, I'd have a separate site that marketed the product and then directed purchasers to the AppStore. Getting less than $19.99 for something this useful is ridiculous! Make it easy to use with automatic whiteboard cleanup, annotations, and target it to the right industry and it should be worth a lot more.
- jcollins 17y ago
  That's a good suggestion to annotate the graph to show price changes. I'll whip one up and post it later. Thanks.
  - hboon 17y ago
    This sounds like the type of software in the App store that can set a high price and supply a free version. How about a $14.99-ish price and a free version that does everything but stamps it with a watermark? It's a perfect demo which shows the full functionality yet the users will not be able to use it without paying.
hedgehog 17y ago
Have you considered doing something similar for business cards?
- jasongullickson 17y ago
  It's hard to do this for business cards due to the combination of low-resolution of the built-in camera and the focal length of the lens. It's possible using something like Griffin's Clarifi (macro lens), but you can't count on everyone having one.
  - jcollins 17y ago
    Exactly. I'm optimistic the next major revision of the iPhone hardware will have a better camera so maybe then.
- wallflower 17y ago
  Just stumbled upon http://cloudcontacts.com http://cloudcontacts.com It's not mobile though
wmblaettler 17y ago
I'm sorry if this is a redundant question on HN, but what did you use to create the graphs?
- jcollins 17y ago
  They're from AppViz. It's an application for the Mac that parses App Store reports and generates graphs/etc from them. http://www.ideaswarm.com/products/appviz/ http://www.ideaswarm.com/products/appviz/
  - wmblaettler 17y ago
    Glad I asked, AppViz looks like an excellent tool. Thanks!
  - there 17y ago
    those graphs look really similar to the protochart defaults http://deensoft.com/lab/protochart/index.php http://deensoft.com/lab/protochart/index.php

59 points by jcollins 17y ago

This is a useful app and certainly worth more than $4.99 to most people who need it. I wish he annotated the graph to show how sales numbers varied with the sales price. Personally, I'd have a separate site that marketed the product and then directed purchasers to the AppStore. Getting less than $19.99 for something this useful is ridiculous! Make it easy to use with automatic whiteboard cleanup, annotations, and target it to the right industry and it should be worth a lot more.

jcollins 17y ago
That's a good suggestion to annotate the graph to show price changes. I'll whip one up and post it later. Thanks.
- hboon 17y ago
  This sounds like the type of software in the App store that can set a high price and supply a free version. How about a $14.99-ish price and a free version that does everything but stamps it with a watermark? It's a perfect demo which shows the full functionality yet the users will not be able to use it without paying.

hedgehog 17y ago

Have you considered doing something similar for business cards?

jasongullickson 17y ago
It's hard to do this for business cards due to the combination of low-resolution of the built-in camera and the focal length of the lens. It's possible using something like Griffin's Clarifi (macro lens), but you can't count on everyone having one.
- jcollins 17y ago
  Exactly. I'm optimistic the next major revision of the iPhone hardware will have a better camera so maybe then.
wallflower 17y ago
Just stumbled upon http://cloudcontacts.com http://cloudcontacts.com It's not mobile though

wmblaettler 17y ago

I'm sorry if this is a redundant question on HN, but what did you use to create the graphs?

jcollins 17y ago
They're from AppViz. It's an application for the Mac that parses App Store reports and generates graphs/etc from them. http://www.ideaswarm.com/products/appviz/ http://www.ideaswarm.com/products/appviz/
- wmblaettler 17y ago
  Glad I asked, AppViz looks like an excellent tool. Thanks!
- there 17y ago
  those graphs look really similar to the protochart defaults http://deensoft.com/lab/protochart/index.php http://deensoft.com/lab/protochart/index.php