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Our 1 week side project is a Best New App on the Mac Appstore - what now?

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Re: Our 1 week side project is a Best New App on the Mac Appstore - what now?

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Post by husky »

stanmancan wrote: post #14
citricsquid wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no experience in mac apps nor do I know if this already exists nor can I attest to the viability... but this is something I've wanted on one occasion before: Some sort of API so that developers can send requests to a user for a screencast. An example would be if I'm a customer service representative and I need a user to send a screencast of a problem they have, I could click "request screencast" in my helpdesk…

I had this idea too when I was in Tech Support at an ISP but concluded that walking a customer through installing the app would most likely be as difficult as having the customer explain what they saw.

Yep totally agree with this - it's a shame... One day webrtc with save us...

Re: Our 1 week side project is a Best New App on the Mac Appstore - what now?

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Post by husky »

arikrak wrote: post #24

Add pause functionality. At least that's what I was looking for when I downloaded it a while ago, but it didn't have it.

Part of the fun and beauty of it though I think is that you can't stop - you are on a rolling train therefore under pressure to get it right in one take = it's kind of exciting that way ;-)

Re: Our 1 week side project is a Best New App on the Mac Appstore - what now?

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Post by husky »

jasonlotito wrote: post #22

Just goes to show you that even if it's provided free by default as apart of the OS, you can still create something does one specific thing, even if it does less. The iOS-ification of apps: just do one thing.

Yep - simplicity is compelling to the user and it makes an app easy to market - kind of a win/win situation

Re: Our 1 week side project is a Best New App on the Mac Appstore - what now?

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Post by husky »

murali44 wrote: post #30
murali44 wrote: post #27

Next step, charge money for something and see what happens.

You don't actually need to build an features yet. Create a pricing page, list out a simple set of features, put a buy button and see how many people click on it. Test with a different set of features and different price points.

Yes we have been putting this together - is a really good idea to see if anyone cares about online features..

Re: Our 1 week side project is a Best New App on the Mac Appstore - what now?

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Post by Sakes »

husky wrote: post #37
Sakes wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you need: 1) Determine if people are people happy with it 2) Happy customers championing your product for you 3) Charge for your product How: 1) Start tracking if users continue to use your product/are happy with product (sounds like you already can do this). 2) Once you know your free customers are happy to use the product begin to monetization the product. 3) Build code to help your existing users spread your…

Some nice ideas here thanks

I think my what 1-3 is 100% right. The how obviously is my knee jerk reaction. Good job on identifying a need, and good luck monetizing!

Re: Our 1 week side project is a Best New App on the Mac Appstore - what now?

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Post by sitkack »

husky wrote: post #40
sitkack wrote: post #21

So if I don't "publish" I lose my screencast? That seems pretty lame. Also, as much of a CC fan as I am, why do you force people to license their screencasts under CC?

yeah 1.1 has now gone live - we have altered this - we will look at the licence as well

Cool. Thanks. If you want to differentiate yourself over what quicktime already provides, I would add in some basic titling, pointer highlighting and region zooming.
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