kapeli

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> Perhaps you should contact the OP's author and see if they'll write a followup about you.

I don't think they care about someone making a living on the App Store. They either care about failures or about getting insanely rich.

No marketing really. At the beginning, almost all users came from the Mac App Store.

I've tried different marketing things along the way, like sponsored posts or Google Adwords. Probably spent around $500 in total on marketing during the lifetime of the app. None had a meaningful effect so I kind of stopped trying.

I mostly focus on engaging my users as much as I can and trying to make them happy, so that they will recommend Dash to others.

Not sure how it is on iOS, but I'd assume your app has to deserve to some extent to be in the top. If you're in the top because of a fluke (e.g. you got featured in some blog post), you'll fall as soon as the hype fades. No idea really, the most "high-ranked" I've been on iOS was around rank 80 Top Grossing in the Productivity category, which I lost as soon as the launch hype faded.

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Every app is a special case, yes. I was just saying that the numbers in the article are not real. Redacted (the app) didn't stay in the top grossing rank enough. It just climbed and fell.

This is complete bullshit. My app (Dash) has been in the Top Grossing on the USA Mac App Store at pretty much any rank.

There's a huge difference between climbing to the top and then instantly failing and actually staying at the top.

A full day in Top Grossing on the Mac App Store gives you something like this:

Ranks #10 to #20: at least $2-4k per day. Ranks #30 to #80: around $800-1k per day. Ranks #80 to #150: around $500-$800 per day.

All sums are after Apple's cut. They fluctuate a bit depending on the day of the week.

I make more than the mentioned $454 per day at ranks of around #200.

My revenue report from last year can be found here: https://blog.kapeli.com/my-year-in-review-2014.

The Mac App Store is my main revenue source. I released my iOS app in November 2014. The revenue from it wasn't worth mentioning separately in last year's report.

This year, the revenue from iOS is around 10% of the Mac app.

The method listing does show headers/sections for Underscore. See http://i.imgur.com/agqawiL.png. As far as I can tell, this is the same as the side menu at http://underscorejs.org/. If anything is missing, let me know!

I'm not able to find the docs for Django 1.0 and 1.1, but all others should be doable. Right now I'm focusing on fixing things for OS X 10.10, but I've added a todo entry for this and as soon as I can I'll add them.

There are quite a few issues in Yosemite, especially with Apple's new docsets. An update should be available soon.

Thanks for pointing this out. I've changed the tagline to "Dash gives your Mac instant offline access to 150+ documentation sets".

Yes. There are now dropdown buttons next to each docset in Preferences > Downloads. You can use them to choose which version(s) you want.

I'm Dash's developer. Currently there is Zeal, that has access to all of Dash's docsets - http://zealdocs.org. Native apps for iOS and Windows are also under development and recently an app for Android has been released (http://lovelydocs.io/). Note: these apps are made by other developers, I'm just providing the docsets.

The latest update of Dash added support for older versions. If any version you need is missing, let me know and I'll add it ASAP.