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Re:Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our underg... by dpcan on Saturday September 03, 2011 @12:06AM (#2956451)
There are so many more factors than just rank alone. Such as competition, search results, web exposure, sales, and more. They also have a lot of those "talking" apps that people with kids gobble up at one point or another once they have a smartphone.

He didn't explicitly mention that CopterKid did very well, but I'm sure he's wise enough not to give away where he's directly seeing his successes because who needs MORE competition?

Re:Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our underg... by n9com on Saturday September 03, 2011 @03:21AM (#2956751)
we are going to explain all our successes, it's actually not that hard for someone to find out which ones they are if they take the time to check out our portfolio.
Re:Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our underg... by bignoggins on Saturday September 03, 2011 @04:21AM (#2956845)
rank is a direct measurement of total downloads, so it's straightforward to extrapolate.
Re:Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our underg... by dpcan on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @12:47PM (#2966196)
Is it? there are no other factors?