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Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

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Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

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Post by kaffeinecoma »

Inspired by patio11 and Bingo Card Creator, I launched Quick Brown Frog:

   http://www.quickbrownfrog.com 
   http://quickbrownfrog.wordpress.com
It's at the MVP stage, and while a technical success (I think it's an awesome in-browser app), no one seems to be interested in paying for it. I reduced the price to $10 prior to launch, and I still haven't had a nibble. I burned through about $200 in Adwords/Bing/Facebook ads so far. I guess it's hard to compete with the many free typing tutors out there.

Still, I plan to keep plugging at it. I have no aesthetic sensibility whatsoever, so next on my list is to get some badly-needed design help.

Many thanks to everyone who provided invaluable feedback during the past month. I really learned a lot and had great fun developing it.

Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

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Post by patio11 »

commiebob wrote: post #25
patio11 wrote: post #2

Appointment Reminder launches "for real" on Monday. (A cold cost me a few days from the planned schedule.)

Congrats! And will you be doing a final wrap up blog post about the process? If so, I am looking forward to it.

Sure. Anything you want me to cover in particular?

I'm also in talks with Twilio about producing something with them about it. Preview of coming attractions: everybody should use Twilio. Oh goodness. It is freaking amazing. It is like email: add it to an application, just about any application, and it gets suddenly, radically better. (And the existence of it makes possible applications that wouldn't be possible otherwise, like AR.)

Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

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Post by amoore »

bwooceli wrote: post #20
amoore wrote: post #10

I launched one. See all of the groupon deals in your town and others in one simple interface: http://www.groupongroupie.com/ I'm still working on a few kinks in the daily email list. The daily inspirational emails from 21times really helped.

Ha! Since I 'discovered' this I've used it nearly daily in preparation for Christmas travels as well as gift shopping for friends around the country. I had a suspicion that you were a HN-er.

Whoah - a user. I've heard about you, but didn't know you existed. Thanks for trying it out! (and tell your friends).

Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

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Post by patio11 »

kaffeinecoma wrote: post #23

Inspired by patio11 and Bingo Card Creator, I launched Quick Brown Frog: http://www.quickbrownfrog.com http://quickbrownfrog.wordpress.com It's at the MVP stage, and while a technical success (I think it's an awesome in-browser app), no one seems to be interested in paying for it. I reduced the price to $10 prior to launch, and I still haven't had a nibble. I burned through about $200 in Adwords/Bing/Facebook ads so…

That is a wonderful application technically. Chat me up sometime when I'm more coherent and I'll give you some marketing/conversion pointers. The only one I trust myself to be accurate on at 2:30 AM is that you need to charge radically more.
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