How to Learn to Write iOS Apps

Re:How to Learn to Write iOS Apps by wbobeirne on Saturday December 24, 2011 @02:43PM (#3389509)

This is a very important point. I've got an incredibly simple app on the market, but because of some good publicity, it's gotten some good download numbers. On the flip side, I'll see great apps that've gotten < 1000 downloads simply because the author didn't get out there and write to every blog in sight.

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Re:How to Learn to Write iOS Apps by brador on Saturday December 24, 2011 @02:58PM (#3389538)

Care to expand on the good publicity angle? Was it a blog? Was it pure luck or a well worded email? etc.

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Re:How to Learn to Write iOS Apps by wbobeirne on Saturday December 24, 2011 @09:34PM (#3390280)

I just threw email darts at the dartboard that is Android blogs. A few of them stuck, and people started to download. That got me some decent ratings, and it's kept going from there.

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Re:How to Learn to Write iOS Apps by Joshim5 on Saturday December 24, 2011 @06:02PM (#3389963)

How did you get this "good publicity?"

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Re:How to Learn to Write iOS Apps by wbobeirne on Saturday December 24, 2011 @09:37PM (#3390283)

As I said in another comment, emailing Android blogs got me a couple of app of the day type things. I also stumbled across my app being the top comment in a fairly popular Reddit thread which I responded to (as the developer) which got me a spike of good ratings and activity. To be quite honest, it was a fair amount of luck.

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