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Great find, I will try out your apps with my daughter. Congratulations on your success. Escpacially since I never saw theses apps promoted on the app store. Bonne continuation.
Are those revenue numbers before or after Apple takes their cut? Either way, it's very impressive, but at one point the $1M is listed as "sales" and another it is labelled "profit".
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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. C…
Are those revenue numbers before or after Apple takes their cut? Either way, it's very impressive, but at one point the $1M is listed as "sales" and another it is labelled "profit".
yes it is after Apple cut. Sorry for my bad english - I should use profit I believe. I've got a little bit of expense but not much since I work alone and from home. I just have some royalties to give back to a text to speech engine for one of my app (I think it is around 30/40K for all my expense for 2013)
Great find, I will try out your apps with my daughter. Congratulations on your success. Escpacially since I never saw theses apps promoted on the app store. Bonne continuation.
all my apps were promoted on the app store (thanks Apple to help some indie!) but apps doesn't stay for long featured (competition!)
This further proves the lack of decent apps in the educational market. I am glad this worked out well for your PierreA, congratulations.
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all my apps were promoted on the app store (thanks Apple to help some indie!) but apps doesn't stay for long featured (competition!)
Also liked on facebook. Finding quality (educational)(french) apps is a pain in the derche on the app store. I have already installed/uninstalled dozen of crappy apps. I think there is also room in the web or traditional french medias for success stories like yours. Did you get some exposition?
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 daughte…
Kudos for making an app that actually has the kids learning instead of some trippy cartoon to watch.
2.99 is a good price to pay for a decent app any more and I probably would look for something else, the days of .99 across the board are long gone.