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Looks great. The name got me thinking about App discovery however. I search for 'Balls' and got many hits, most irrelevant and uninteresting. Then I searched
by jobvandervoort 12y ago
Looks great. The name got me thinking about App discovery however.
I search for 'Balls' and got many hits, most irrelevant and uninteresting.
Then I searched for the exact title of your app and got about 13k hits. None of the first 100 which was your app. I downloaded it through iTunes eventually.
That makes me wonder: how do you promote (iOS) app discovery? There are plenty of analytics startups for this, but is anyone trying to improve this process?
edit: Searched around for curated app websites / stores. There are some, but lack in depth and quality. I'm starting my own.
- hdivider 12y agoInteresting. Would love to see some innovation on this, beyond just SensorTower. Too many great apps get ignored. Add me to your list (email in profile). :)
- kolinko 12y agothere are other options than sensortower - like AppCodes.com. while we're not as polished, we offer a totally different approach to the process.
- ivanpashenko 12y agoYes, you are right. Somehow did not think about it in advance. I'm wondering how this could be solved.
- steedsofwar 12y ago"The name got me thinking about App discovery however." This is exactly what came to my mind, as i added more terms to the search, to whittle down the results.
- kolinko 12y agoyeah, the search kinda sucks. for app discovery there's xyo.net and there used to be chomp.com - the latter one was bought by Apple, but it might be worth for you to review their story. now, on the developer's side there are also dedicated tools for app store seo - for finding good phrases and keywords to use for positioning, and for tracking your position. That's AppCodes.com . you might also want to check out some of my slides here: slideshare.net/kolinko . we've outlined the search basics over there.
- keesj 12y agoInteresting to see so many people having problems finding the app. What's wrong with clicking the 'App Store' button and downloading it from iTunes? You can configure your iPhone to then automatically download it. Serious question. I'm sure you all have some good reasons to not use iTunes and wanting to download it from your phone. Curious to hear what those reasons are.
- obviouslygreen 12y agoThere's nothing wrong with that for people who choose to use it that way. But it kills discoverability (well, more accurately, there is no discoverability) for people who may hear about it without being given the direct link to this particular site or the page itself and attempt to search for it, only to find... they're not really sure what.
- keesj 12y agoValid point on worth-of-mouth. Since the app is relatively new, it might take a while for it to rank. (Not sure that's how the App Store works, but can imagine the more downloads/reviews the higher it will rank for its keywords)
- freebs 12y agoExactly. If I were the author I'd come up with a more unique name.
- cpwright 12y agoWhy would I want iTunes on my computer? I installed it only after losing and finding my phone to restore the phone; and it is annoying. It always pops up music whenever I plug my phone into charge. It also did some nonsense Outlook integration. I never buy media through iTunes, I always use Amazon; so iTunes provides little, if any value on an ongoing basis.
- keesj 12y agoAh yes, if you don't use iTunes for anything else it wouldn't make sense installing it just for this.