I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

#1

Post by 54mf » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 2:32 PM UTC

[Update] It seems Skrivr has crashed under the HN load. I've thrown up a flat-file version of the article here:

http://samuelfine.com/iphone_lessons_learned.html

I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons
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Re: I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

#2

Post by pghimire » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 2:56 PM UTC

Hang in there - you never know. Plus, I could not find a link to your app on your blog post. To say it in your own words: you aren't yelling loud enough. Keep hustling!

Re: I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

#3

Post by 54mf » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 2:57 PM UTC

pghimire wrote: post #2

Hang in there - you never know. Plus, I could not find a link to your app on your blog post. To say it in your own words: you aren't yelling loud enough. Keep hustling!

Oh wow, I linked to it right at the top, guess it wasn't as obvious as I thought! I'll edit to make it a little more noticable, thanks for pointing that out.

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#4

Post by cl8ton » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 3:04 PM UTC

You made good points about the data not lying, took me a while to learn that one (actually I'm still learning it)

I up voted you to help your hustle efforts!

Re: I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

#5

Post by napierzaza » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 3:04 PM UTC

I agree, but it is hard to get noticed in the Apple App ecosystem. I don't get the impression that many people type in what kind of app they want into Google. So stuff like adwords fall flat. It's great to get noticed in tech blogs etc but hard to get noticed really since they probably get plenty of "press releases" from nobody first-timers (no offense). Getting noticed by Apple is the biggest pull you'll ever get.

I know of an iPhone product that was released and got initial attention from Apple under what's new and some kind of small feature (maybe Canada only). After those peeks subsided they exclaimed that it's really going to start because they were going to start hitting ads and social media...

But good news is that he's getting some attention from this HN post.

Re: I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

#6

Post by 54mf » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 3:07 PM UTC

cl8ton wrote: post #4

You made good points about the data not lying, took me a while to learn that one (actually I'm still learning it) I up voted you to help your hustle efforts!

Thanks! I've been a big Gary Vaynerchuk fan for a while, he's all about the hustle. To an insane degree. Check him out if you want to go more in-depth about it.

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#7

Post by elliotb » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 3:29 PM UTC

It seems your post has become inaccessible. I'm getting: Cannot connect to your Dropbox account. Are you sure you have connected Skrivr to Dropbox

Oops. Page does not exist.

… the page you are looking for does not exist.

Re: I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

#8

Post by 54mf » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 3:36 PM UTC

elliotb wrote: post #7

It seems your post has become inaccessible. I'm getting: Cannot connect to your Dropbox account. Are you sure you have connected Skrivr to Dropbox Oops. Page does not exist. … the page you are looking for does not exist.

Awesome. I don't have a "proper blog" up yet and assumed a third-party service reading a static text file wouldn't die. Serves me right. I'll work on getting that page forwarded to something more stable, I appreciate the heads-up.

Re: I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

#9

Post by 54mf » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 3:42 PM UTC

Apparently Skrivr can't handle HN, so I've put up a flat-file version of the post here:

http://samuelfine.com/iphone_lessons_learned.html

[Edit] Looks like Skrivr is entirely down. Not sure it's my fault, but it was working all morning.

Re: I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

#10

Post by rpledge » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 3:49 PM UTC

The app looks well designed, but the lack of sync features would be an issue for me. But I'm sure there's a good market for people that don't need to coordinate calendars between devices and people.