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My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report

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Re: My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report

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Post by maxerickson »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #3
PierreA wrote: post #2

Let me know if you have questions (I'm the lucky indie dev who wrote the post)

Aren't you afraid that by posting this you are going to attract a lot of unwelcome competition?

I bet they already have plenty of it.

Re: My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report

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Post by PierreA »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #3
PierreA wrote: post #2

Let me know if you have questions (I'm the lucky indie dev who wrote the post)

Aren't you afraid that by posting this you are going to attract a lot of unwelcome competition?

actually I've done this report in 2011 and 2012, and at this time this was really a good question because there was not so much competion. Nowadays as maxerison unerlined, there is a lot of competition (and I'm happy to still have a good visibility). I was even wondering if it was interesting to publish my report this year (I mean not only for my ego) but several devs told me that it was inspirational and give them energy to read such posts...

Re: My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report

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Post by goldenkey »

PierreA wrote: post #6
tonyedgecombe wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't you afraid that by posting this you are going to attract a lot of unwelcome competition?

actually I've done this report in 2011 and 2012, and at this time this was really a good question because there was not so much competion. Nowadays as maxerison unerlined, there is a lot of competition (and I'm happy to still have a good visibility). I was even wondering if it was interesting to publish my report this year (I mean not only for my ego) but several devs told me that it was inspirational and give them e…

PierreA, it was indeed inspirational. Partly because you're immensely talented. It's easy to make utilities with programming chops. But you made something so much more, you made an artistic, learning, _EXPERIENCE_. Kudos Pierre, your apps are super high quality and the colors are just blooming, very fun stuff, even for an adult like me to just mess around and watch the pretty colors fly around, or the ball physics. Cheers mate.

Re: My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report

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Post by PierreA »

epaga wrote: post #5

Wow, thank you SO much for sharing these numbers. It seems to me a huge part of your success was due to you picking a niche (Montessori) with weak(ish) competition and making a high-quality product in that niche, would you agree with that assessment?

I think my luck is that I was here at the beginning of the /marketiPad. I was not thinking the market would grow so much. Using the Montessori name was not a big marketing plan actually (I was really dumb about marketing 3 years ago - just check the name of my company, it is really not good - especially for the US Market!). It was just because the concept was coming from a Montessori activites my homeschooled daughter was doing... Some people told me that it was a very good marketing to have used the Montessori name, and now I agree but at this time I didn't know that. My second app and 3rd app has no "Montessori" in the title because I don't want to use this name too much (perhaps I should because my work is always inspired by Montessori methods we use at home...) Anyway, picking a niche and sticking to it is definitively something important and that worked well for me. All my apps are in this niche. As a final note: when I release my first, there was almost no competition. The market was empty.
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