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Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store

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Re: Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store

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Thanks! Great advice. Signing up for appfigures & appannie right now...

My tale led to an interesting discussion on Hacker News a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878871

Awesome. Great post & discussion. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store

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Thanks! Great advice. Signing up for appfigures & appannie right now...

My tale led to an interesting discussion on Hacker News a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878871

Thanks for the link. Great to read about others' experiences.

Re: Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store

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On thing you may consider doing, if you aren't already, is using one of the many libraries available which ask users to rate your app. In the last release of one of my apps I implemented one of the libraries and I saw the amount of ratings soar. Especially the positive ratings.

Is there anything like this for Mac apps?

Re: Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store

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Thanks for sharing! What are your experiences with Distimo?

We were interested in Distimo their reporting on rankings. Unfortunately, you have to be in the top 200 (it seems) to get ranking info. Appfigures is better for this. They do hourly rankings (thanks to ajlburke for recommending it, we just signed up today).

They do have a nice dashboard and the site is easy to use.

Re: Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store

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Congrats on your app launch! I’ve been sharing it with all my biker friends. :) Thanks for sharing this info it is very valuable info! You mentioned the disconnect when someone transitions into the App Store. I was wondering if you are signed up for Apple’s Affiliate program and using your unique affiliate link on your websites App Store button. Would that give you any more idea of what is going on inside the App Store?

Re: Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store

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On thing you may consider doing, if you aren't already, is using one of the many libraries available which ask users to rate your app. In the last release of one of my apps I implemented one of the libraries and I saw the amount of ratings soar. Especially the positive ratings.

Which page do you direct users to - the reviews page or the main app page? Do you have any data on which converts better for getting new star ratings?

Re: Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store

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Congratulations! I went through a similar process with my first app as well. A few things I'd recommend: - Use appfigures.com and appannie.com to track your sales and rankings. They provide much nicer reports than those provided by Apple. Also, they'll tell you if reviews come in, and even translate them for you. I'm personally addicted to the hourly ranking updates from AppFigures. - Never stop promoting. Do somethi…

Fantastic advice! I'll be implementing some of this for my app shortly!

Re: Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store

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a) Glad you like it. Simplicity was a goal. b) Yes, totally agreed & in the works. c) This will be in the next release. d) We actually have a ticket in with Apple to get this fixed. There's nothing we can do on our end. Terrible. Thanks for the honest feedback!

Thanks for the link to distimo.com analytic, I'm looking into it. My marketing suggestion: contact blogs that a cyclist would read, blogs by/for cyclist or even a blog by a boutique bike shop. Perhaps some will write about your app.

http://dcrainmaker.com comes to mind
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