This is a simple app that require the users to input their name and D.O.B to calculate their daily luck. This idea was come from one of the Facebook applications "Test your luck". This app have nothing special, it just come out with a number that shows your luck today. In Facebook this kind of app have a huge number of daily users. In android market there are some similar but not exactly same apps with my app. I publish it into to market just want to see how many users will actually download it and keep it in their phone.
Here are some history about few days ago:
5 days ago - i used half day to finish my first app though it was just a simple app, after that i publish it into android market
4 days ago - there are total 3 downloads - one from me and another two from my friends, which means 0 download from public. I felt quite disappointed at that moment. After make some research on alternative markets, I publish my app into SlideMe, appoke, anzhi and hiapk. The latter two markets are from China.
3 days ago - Slideme and anzhi market approved my app. At the same day, I have 250+ downloads from Slideme and 350+ download from anzhi.
today - i upload my app to amazon. The download number is still increasing for slideme and anzhi markets. My app status in hiapk still in pending.
Statistic for today:
Slideme - 317
anzhi - 468
android market - 20 downloads (13 active)
appoke - 1 (very low download rate, i will just skip this)
hiapk - pending status
As you can see from the download numbers above, android market had very low download number compare to other two markets. The main different between android market and other two market is android market do not show the latest update/latest app like the other two market do. Low exposure causes the low download rate in android market. There are some reasons for Google remove the just in category from the market. The reasons behind these was long enough to open a new post. So i will skip it for now.
Slideme is a great market for indie developers:
- quite a large number of users using slideme market
- less developers means less competitors
- approve app within one day
anzhi is another big market:
- China market are always big and chances are everywhere
- anzhi's users are mostly from China - this means the download rate in a single China beat the rate for all others countries together around the world (for my case).
If you want to make some real money, those big markets such as android market, amazon and anzhi are essential. Next, how to make your apps survive from giant companies and get your apps known by the users is depends on your marketing skills. Apparently, I am not good in this. That's why I am creating this blog to promote my own apps and also learning how to marketing.
By the way, you can find my first app in the following link:
Any comments and suggestion are most welcomed.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteAny chance you could help me out with a android play store download and rating of a newly released puzzle game I've been lately working on? (it's free)
If you, up for it here is the link to the android playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.game.numbermix
Fell free to contact me and I'll return the favor. Just point me in the right direction.
For the moment I can only help if you have any app/game that is available on the android play store.
Thank you.
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