Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store

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Post by johnw » Wed, May 23, 2012, 9:26 PM UTC

Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store
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Re: Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store

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Post by mikemarotti » Wed, May 23, 2012, 9:44 PM UTC

Did you actually have any angry customers contacting you who paid full price for the app?

Re: Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store

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Post by danso » Wed, May 23, 2012, 9:46 PM UTC

It actually surprises me that so much promotion, and such a large price drop, didn't result in even more purchases. It'd be interesting to see the sales curve after you raise the price again.

Re: Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store

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Post by datsro » Wed, May 23, 2012, 9:46 PM UTC

mikemarotti wrote: post #2

Did you actually have any angry customers contacting you who paid full price for the app?

The old customers should be happier, the developer might be able to spend more time on future updates.

Re: Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store

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Post by alasano » Wed, May 23, 2012, 9:52 PM UTC

That's impressive. Are you considering adjusting the price slighly downwards to maximize your potential due to the better exposure?

Re: Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store

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Post by pmjordan » Wed, May 23, 2012, 9:58 PM UTC

The German stat is probably due to being mentioned on Heise, which is pretty much the go-to site for tech news in German:

http://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/Reduzierte-Programme-i...

Re: Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store

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Post by Wump » Wed, May 23, 2012, 10:00 PM UTC

How do you separate how much of the sales increase was due to the sharp price drop, and how much was due to promotion by Two Dollar Tuesday?

Re: Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store

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Post by sparknlaunch12 » Wed, May 23, 2012, 10:02 PM UTC

Wow! What a great result! So how does one get featured in the two dollar deal? What have sales done now, back at the normal price? Would you consider dropping the price permanently?

Re: Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store

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Post by jws » Wed, May 23, 2012, 10:06 PM UTC

Extrapolating your day on day sales figures, you should see about 600k copies get sold tomorrow and 54M the next day.[1]

Morgan Stanley probably isn't too busy now, you should get their Facebook team to run an IPO based on that, before tomorrow's number come in.

EOM

[1] by July every particle in the universe will own a copy, that might cause sales to taper off.

Re: Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store

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Post by joedev » Wed, May 23, 2012, 10:07 PM UTC

Good job!

btw: I love how their Revenue counter is poised to go up to a trillion dollars.