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Re: Show HN: My bold attempt to become a millionaire while trying to solve a problem

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Post by enormace »

typpo wrote: post #2

Reminds me of the million dollar homepage, which succeeded in raising a million dollars: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

Yes it's a similar take on making a million dollars. I just thought there must be another way / pattern of getting to the same figure while also attempting to solve the issue of discovering apps.

Re: Show HN: My bold attempt to become a millionaire while trying to solve a problem

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Post by superqd »

The site says its the "ultimate" iPhone app discovery destination. I wasn't certain how it was supposed to help you discover apps, because at first it just looked like a very long list, which isn't very helpful. Then I saw a filter, but the filter only includes a small selection of categories. That's not very helpful either.

I'm not sure what the problem is that you are trying to solve, and what would motivate someone to purchase an icon on your page. If it was a viral site, then certainly the eyeballs will entice some to buy space. However, the site isn't a destination, and isn't novel enough to pull tons of potential "real" customers (if most people visiting the site are potential advertisers, it's not very valuable to advertisers, etc).

So that means your site needs to actually be better at app discovery than Apple's iTunes. But it's not, or at least I couldn't figure out how it was. Is there some other mechanism for finding apps that you provide?

If you are trying to replicate the novelty of the million dollar home page, I don't think it will work in this case. Do you already have tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of visitors to the site? If not, why buy?

Re: Show HN: My bold attempt to become a millionaire while trying to solve a problem

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Post by enormace »

superqd wrote: post #4

The site says its the "ultimate" iPhone app discovery destination. I wasn't certain how it was supposed to help you discover apps, because at first it just looked like a very long list, which isn't very helpful. Then I saw a filter, but the filter only includes a small selection of categories. That's not very helpful either. I'm not sure what the problem is that you are trying to solve, and what would motivate someon…

Thanks for the feedback. I thought I had all the categories as listed on iTunes so I'll look into it again.

And you are right in saying why buy if the site doesn't have many visitors and I guess that's the hardest part in getting it out there.

It might not be novel enough to pull thousands of customers but I just thought it wouldn't hurt to try the idea out.

Re: Show HN: My bold attempt to become a millionaire while trying to solve a problem

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Post by superqd »

enormace wrote: post #6
superqd wrote: post #4

The site says its the "ultimate" iPhone app discovery destination. I wasn't certain how it was supposed to help you discover apps, because at first it just looked like a very long list, which isn't very helpful. Then I saw a filter, but the filter only includes a small selection of categories. That's not very helpful either. I'm not sure what the problem is that you are trying to solve, and what would motivate someon…

Thanks for the feedback. I thought I had all the categories as listed on iTunes so I'll look into it again. And you are right in saying why buy if the site doesn't have many visitors and I guess that's the hardest part in getting it out there. It might not be novel enough to pull thousands of customers but I just thought it wouldn't hurt to try the idea out.

I think you may want to reconsider the URL as well. I know good domain names are hard to come by, but million dollar home page was a wonderful name. But only1414apps doesn't roll off the tongue very well, and doesn't stick in the brain very well either. Since it isn't very catchy, it will have a hard time enticing non-advertisers to visit. Just my two cents.

Re: Show HN: My bold attempt to become a millionaire while trying to solve a problem

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Post by enormace »

loceng wrote: post #5

The pricing increases far too quickly.

This might help in 'the sooner I buy, the cheaper it'll be'. It's also easier on the eye to see what's going on and that the price increases incrementally by $1. Also, if there were more icons it means more images to load and slower loading times.
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