mrborgen

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   by mrborgen 12y ago

   That might be. 100K just based upon our stats from previous apps, and how well we managed to monetize those. but 100K is indeed not that much. How much would you say it costs top buy that kind of downloads?
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   by mrborgen 12y ago

   Thanks, it's iPad-only actually. iPhone will come in an update. We had to drop the iPhone version for 1.0 as we didn't have enough time. It will be free to download, with In App Purchases. The main purchase will be a PRO upgrade,
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   by mrborgen 12y ago

   Thank you both! Really appreciate it :)
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   by mrborgen 12y ago

   Here is how we tested them: Language skills: I made an Odesk job for each language and got quite a few applications. THe first filering process consists of deleting those who have below 4,5 stars, and thos who have't worked at Odesk fo
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   by mrborgen 12y ago

   I think an open source list of common words and expressions is a very good idea. Ideally, that kind of tool also plugs into Google's Adwords tool, so you'll get the amount of searches each expression gets.
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   by mrborgen 12y ago

   Completely disagree. Let's take our app as an example, it's an music making app with just a few sentences in it, which aren't really relevant for the core experience. If a russian person searches for делать музыку (make music
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   by mrborgen 12y ago

   True enough, if you want to fully localize your app, you'd have to spend much more money and time. However, I'd definitely not recommend people translating their entire apps without localizing it's metadata first to check you
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   by mrborgen 12y ago

   Go for it!
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   by mrborgen 12y ago

   Nice, that tool looks like something more startups could use when translating their products. Have you built it yourself?
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    A very interesting article indeed. Thanks for sharing :)
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    Agreed! It's important to get them to understand how your app works. Ideally they should download your app, read comments, blog posts, everything that relates to it. It will make it cheaper and better. Interesting website. Do you get t
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    What kind of app have you localized? The increased downloads will allways be relative to the downloads you have in that spesific market before the localization. It is true that you'll have to spend time doing it, which translates into
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    That's not a bad idea actually. This will reveal their quality quite a lot. However, it will be difficult to know which of the translators fault it is if the message gets lost..
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    Do you know wether people from Portugal react negatively on brazilian portuguese? I have sticked to brazilian portuguese, as we get much more downlads from Portugal than Brazil.
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    Those kind of figures would be very interesting, indeed. Google will most definitely crawl all your localised pages, so you'll at least get more local traffic. Dont have any numbers though..
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    Agree! I got really surprise when I tried to translate to my native language via Google Translate. It made me realise how crappy their translation really is.. :P
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    I highly doubt it. At least for the screenshots. People will get very sceptcal if they see grammatical errors in their native language. What I do think can be automated though, is the act of finding search phrase equivalents for different l
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    I understand. It's really important to do a lot of Q&A, but that's precicely what we have done with these people. And personally, I dont need people with masters degrees to translate for me. I'd much rather have people wi
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    I haven't tried it to be honest, as I have so little knowledge about that market. But as David Janner says in the article linked to below, he did't get a lot of result from it. But if anybody knows any good translators to south ko
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    How to quickly localize your app for 300 dollars(blog.discofingers.com)

    37 points by mrborgen 12y ago|50 comments
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    Love these sounds. Discovered them recently and made a little 'outer space' beat with an app I am making. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9daMfQjpA Anybody who's seen other musical compositions using Nasa so
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    Took about half a day for me. The waiting time is well worth the 900 extra beta testers you can add. At least for us.
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    I read that the beta app review only applies for the 1.0 version, or if you make significant changes. Not sure about the time frame though.
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    Ask HN: Best time to notify App Store editorial team in order to be Featured?

    1 points by mrborgen 12y ago|0 comments
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    What It’s Like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class(medium.com)

    4 points by mrborgen 12y ago|0 comments
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    One Illustration Shows Exactly What's Wrong with How the West Talks About Ebola(mic.com)

    3 points by mrborgen 12y ago|0 comments
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    Experts fear a virus can devastate mankind in the next five years [2012](dailymail.co.uk)

    1 points by mrborgen 12y ago|0 comments
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    I know, thats a nice little "secret". What do you think would happen if you added a bunch of engligh words in the spanish localisation?
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    That last sentence pretty much sums up ASO :)
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    by mrborgen 12y ago

    Hi everybody! Thanks for all comments, if anybody need some tips / advice regarding their own App Store Optimisation, feel free to contact me at: per@discofingers.com