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Hehehe good point. I removed it and linked to the HackerNews thread instead as that might be more useful for people.

I have no way of being 100% certain, however I followed the best practises: - Being on a new version of Android - Having an up to date version of Google Play store app - Being on w…

Appreciate the reply. I think you're referring to these guidelines: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... We did go through the guidelines to make sure ou…

Happy I saved you some $$$

What was painful about pre-registration ads is you don't realise your mistake until you launch your app. Only then do you look at your screen and then go have a cry hahaha. Be supe…

We didn't cap it because we were getting conversions at around $1.36 USD. This is more than we'd normally spend for an install, but we thought it's worth it because it also gives u…

We started the pre-registration around 2 months before release and it ran right up until release. The max you can do is 90 days.

Yeah we often think about the free trial vs freemium experience. I really admire apps like FitBod who just let you try out 3 free workouts without needing to commit to a free trial…

haha it's been my pleasure being a guinea pig. Just wish I could of learned the same lesson for $5k instead of $20k.

All good points. Especially about meal planning being something you're looking to solve right now, not in a few weeks time. Unlike a game, where a few weeks from now you'll still b…

When they're on their phone it'll show a download button instead :-) The QR code only appears on desktop.

Fair point. To Google conversion = someone who has pre-registered. That's different to someone actually installing. I never expected 100% of people who pre-registered would install…

We felt that getting a lot of traction on the launch day might give us some good momentum in the charts. With hindsight, I'd wish we'd saved our money and spent it after launch, wh…

Hope it's helpful for some fellow developers when considering how to promote their app launch :-)

If you look at the first screenshot in the article it shows what the pre-registration page looks like. It says: Perks of pre-registering - Automatic install Install automatically w…

Yeah when I first looked at the analytics in the Google Play Console I thought there must of been some error. Figured it would be a fairly quick thing to sort out with Google suppo…

If it's a bug then I'm hoping to raise some awareness of it here because the Google support team didn't want to hear about it.

For sure. Live and learn. And hoping to share it here so others can learn from my mistake.

Short version: We used a Google Ads pre-registration campaign to get installs for our app. Google charged us for 16,171 conversions. When we launched, we only received 1,371 instal…

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Ah I see! Congrats on the launch today! Will download from direct link instead.

Typed in wifimapper on my iPhone here in the UK. It says no results. Have you checked that?