TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps
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Re: TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps
#2Interesting. This could be useful.
The developer portion of the site seems kind devoid of hard info: http://tapzilla.com/advertise
The article says it costs the developer $1 per download. Who is actually paying the money that is credited back to the customer? Does the developer need to fund this (in addition to the $1 per download), or does TapZilla?
If TapZilla is funding the customer credit with the developer's $1 per download, can this be used for apps that are more than 99 cents? And how is TapZilla making any money?
If the developer is funding the customer credit, then the developer would need to pay TapZilla $1 + cost for each download? If so, is this prepaid or postpaid?
Re: TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps
#3Interesting. This could be useful. The developer portion of the site seems kind devoid of hard info: http://tapzilla.com/advertise The article says it costs the developer $1 per download. Who is actually paying the money that is credited back to the customer? Does the developer need to fund this (in addition to the $1 per download), or does TapZilla? If TapZilla is funding the customer credit with the developer's $1…
The developer pays $1 + app cost, they in turn will receive 70% of the app cost from Apple. So the effective cost per user acquisition for a $0.99 app is $1.30.
Re: TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps
#4Interesting. This could be useful. The developer portion of the site seems kind devoid of hard info: http://tapzilla.com/advertise The article says it costs the developer $1 per download. Who is actually paying the money that is credited back to the customer? Does the developer need to fund this (in addition to the $1 per download), or does TapZilla? If TapZilla is funding the customer credit with the developer's $1…
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Re: TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps
#5developer pays them $1.00
they pay users $0.99 per app
they drive 1000 apps per day
= $10/day?
Re: TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps
#6Interesting. This could be useful. The developer portion of the site seems kind devoid of hard info: http://tapzilla.com/advertise The article says it costs the developer $1 per download. Who is actually paying the money that is credited back to the customer? Does the developer need to fund this (in addition to the $1 per download), or does TapZilla? If TapZilla is funding the customer credit with the developer's $1…
The developer pays $1 + app cost, they in turn will receive 70% of the app cost from Apple. So the effective cost per user acquisition for a $0.99 app is $1.30.
Good point about 70% of the cost being returned by Apple, I forgot to include that. That makes things seem a lot more reasonable.
Re: TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps
#7developer pays them $1.00 they pay users $0.99 per app they drive 1000 apps per day = $10/day?
Not exactly:
The developer pays $1 + app cost, they in turn will receive 70% of the app cost from Apple. So the effective cost per user acquisition for a $0.99 app is $1.30.
1000 apps installed per day = $1000/day
Re: TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps
#8Was there some informal pact by the stealth YC companies from the summer batch that they launch today?
Re: TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps
#9Great service, have tried it during the closed beta period. Good way for devs to get early users.
Re: TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps
#10It mentions that they have plans for an Android version. That is a much more difficult area to venture into because of the 24 hour refund.
- I get the discount on the app paid out then return the app. Free money!
Overall I do like the idea, very useful.