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Re:Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best... by melling on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:26AM (#21013799)
You should follow the link to the AppStore where it says:

“This app is no longer supported by the developer“

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snaplight-photo-highlighter/id...

He probably got 10,000 downloads a week while he was featured on that page then dropped to almost zero. Millions of apps in the store means you won’t get much random traffic.

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Re:Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best... by tannerc on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:03AM (#21016840)
I only recently (as of a few weeks ago) stopped fully supporting my apps because I want to invest more time in other efforts.

I made a comment elsewhere here (and updated the article to state) that downloads currently are around 40 each week, with an occasional bubble of a few thousand when a blogger or news site re-discovers the app.

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