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Re: Ask HN: Number of iPhone apps you published & income you get from them

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Post by avalore »

Published two apps. One is quite broad in its potential user base. I spent a reasonable amount of time using Twitter, forums, talking to bloggers, answering emails etc.

I also vary the price a lot and VERY REGULARLY, although only since it's slipped from the charts. Varying from £.59 to £2.99. You might be surprised at the effect this has... The higher price tends not to affect the number of sales too much so I try to keep this as high as possible.

The second app is a little more niche. The only advertising (after an initial flurry of tweets) has been via links on my website (just for promoting my freelance work) and the website of the content owner.

So... A) 2 B) both paid C) see above D) £2500 - £4000 per month

Re: Ask HN: Number of iPhone apps you published & income you get from them

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Post by pz »

(a) 4 (6 if you include the Lite versions) (b) all paid (but 2 have Lite versions) (c) not a whole lot. i ran some ads with admob but they didn't provide very good ROI. i had a little more success cross promoting my apps (d) lived off the income for most of last year. my income has since waned and the death knell came a couple weeks ago when the EFF emailed Apple requesting my app be pulled because it used a GPL library. Prior to that I had settled into an equilibrium of about $10k/year.

Re: Ask HN: Number of iPhone apps you published & income you get from them

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Post by jcollins »

This could be interesting if enough folks post. Here is my info.

I've published 2 apps, one paid (Whiteboard Capture Pro), one free (Picture Me). Picture Me code is open sourced as well (http://bit.ly/7rmKdT). Originally I did some marketing with Google Adsense but it's too hard to track its success so I stopped. I've had some free marketing thanks to mentions in blogs, etc. Recently Apple even made a super awesome video about one of the apps (http://bit.ly/cbtkg3).

Income wise, it's decent. Surprisingly stable at it's current level. Let's just say it's paid for a WWDC trip, three iPhones and 2 iPads and there is plenty left over, plenty.

Re: Ask HN: Number of iPhone apps you published & income you get from them

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Post by drewcrawford »

A) I currently own three apps.

B) All are paid.

C) Zero.

D) Almost $5000 between all three. When you consider it took me maybe two weeks worth of work, it's decent pay. If you factor a percentage of the pay from all of the contract leads those apps have generated, we're talking about serious money.

Re: Ask HN: Number of iPhone apps you published & income you get from them

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Post by chc »

drewcrawford wrote: post #16

A) I currently own three apps. B) All are paid. C) Zero. D) Almost $5000 between all three. When you consider it took me maybe two weeks worth of work, it's decent pay. If you factor a percentage of the pay from all of the contract leads those apps have generated, we're talking about serious money.

Is that $5000/mo or $5000 total?

Re: Ask HN: Number of iPhone apps you published & income you get from them

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Post by drewcrawford »

chc wrote: post #18
drewcrawford wrote: post #16

A) I currently own three apps. B) All are paid. C) Zero. D) Almost $5000 between all three. When you consider it took me maybe two weeks worth of work, it's decent pay. If you factor a percentage of the pay from all of the contract leads those apps have generated, we're talking about serious money.

Is that $5000/mo or $5000 total?

$5000 total.
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