Android Marketing: Using coupons to give away paid Android Apps
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Android Marketing: Using coupons to give away paid Android Apps
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Re: Android Marketing: Using coupons to give away paid Android Apps
#2This looks like a neat idea. A nice extension would be to allow for a QR code entry that would invalidate itself over some criteria.
Re: Android Marketing: Using coupons to give away paid Android Apps
#3I didn't dive deep into the source code.
Does it invalidate a coupon after it's used?
What would happen if I get a new phone? Would I need to get a new coupon?
Re: Android Marketing: Using coupons to give away paid Android Apps
#4I didn't dive deep into the source code. Does it invalidate a coupon after it's used? What would happen if I get a new phone? Would I need to get a new coupon?
Currently you can't control the number of times a coupon has been used, but you can control its lifetime.
If you get a new phone (and the coupon it's still valid) it will work, otherwise it won't.
Re: Android Marketing: Using coupons to give away paid Android Apps
#5We are working on a SaaS that solves exactly this problem combined with some additional things except you don t have to enter any coupons, its completely managed by the back end.
Looks cool though.
Re: Android Marketing: Using coupons to give away paid Android Apps
#6I was actually just wondering the other day if this existed for either (Google or Amazon) Android market.
This seems like a good solution until they implement it into the market itself.
Re: Android Marketing: Using coupons to give away paid Android Apps
#7Sounds like a cool idea. Thumbs up!
Re: Android Marketing: Using coupons to give away paid Android Apps
#8Using the free version + paid unlocker approach (http://www.marvinlabs.com/2011/01/sharing-code-full-lite-ver...), you can gift the paid version by sending just the unlocker APK to the user. Since all the functionality is in the free version from the market, they'll get updates normally. That said, this is really cool - I was thinking of building something like it for my applications.
Re: Android Marketing: Using coupons to give away paid Android Apps
#9We are working on a SaaS that solves exactly this problem combined with some additional things except you don t have to enter any coupons, its completely managed by the back end. Looks cool though.
one of my interests is startups that are in the mobile SaaS space..do you feel comfortable giving out the firm's name?
Re: Android Marketing: Using coupons to give away paid Android Apps
#10Could the same thing be done for iPhone apps or would Apple not allow such things?