1. How does it get over 500 votes on product hunt? (and so few sales from that traffic)
2. $5 is cheap for desktop software, yet still seems expensive for this problem (not something I would need often, and there are other ways to do it)
3. Considering #2 of apps being more expensive, being at the top of the top paid is less important/impressive etc than top grossing. Cheapest in top 10 grossing is $20, and all but 2 > $50. Selling 60 apps a day at $50 is a lot of money.
4. Now I'll agree that I would expect #8 paid in the MAS to be a bit higher, but I wouldn't have guessed anywhere remotely close to 12k. Maybe $1500. $300 a day is nothing to sneeze at though. $110k a year. I don't know where he peaked in top grossing, but it's at 108 now. 100 apps get to make 6 figures a year, and presumably the top is a decent bit higher. Seems reasonable.
EDIT: 5. Also, ranking in the stores lately is screwy, and at least a little bit meaningless. Not sure whats going on, but there has been a lot of talk about it not correlating that well with sales. Could be part of it.
It's not $300 a day. It's $300 on launch day. Sales always, always drop far below launch day unless you have other factors which keep the app in the news or on a "top 10" chart.
My apps have usually dropped to maybe 10% of the launch peak.
>It's not $300 a day. It's $300 on launch day. Sales always, always drop far below launch day unless you have other factors which keep the app in the news or on a "top 10" chart.
Yes, but those $300 were still made in a day as the 8th top app.
What the parent said is that $300 for each day you're on the "top 8th" is good.
If he can't be on the top 8th for long, that's his problem, and it doesn't mean people should be getting $12K for a single day on the top 10.
1. How does it get over 500 votes on product hunt? (and so few sales from that traffic)
2. $5 is cheap for desktop software, yet still seems expensive for this problem (not something I would need often, and there are other ways to do it)
3. Considering #2 of apps being more expensive, being at the top of the top paid is less important/impressive etc than top grossing. Cheapest in top 10 grossing is $20, and all but 2 > $50. Selling 60 apps a day at $50 is a lot of money.
4. Now I'll agree that I would expect #8 paid in the MAS to be a bit higher, but I wouldn't have guessed anywhere remotely close to 12k. Maybe $1500. $300 a day is nothing to sneeze at though. $110k a year. I don't know where he peaked in top grossing, but it's at 108 now. 100 apps get to make 6 figures a year, and presumably the top is a decent bit higher. Seems reasonable.
EDIT: 5. Also, ranking in the stores lately is screwy, and at least a little bit meaningless. Not sure whats going on, but there has been a lot of talk about it not correlating that well with sales. Could be part of it.