mpatzer

I went to a demo day at the Iron Yard in Atlanta with the intent to find junior developers. Several of the RoR guys had some previous programming experience and did the bootcamp to learn RoR (unfortunately we weren't hiring Rails engineers). The iOS developers showed some promise, but definitely weren't quite hirable. They had a really great start and I asked several of them to contact me in about a year.

Do you still have to ship the item to Amazon with Fulfillment by Amazon?

I wasn't super diligent in keeping analytics for my website, but each app would have maybe 1 click every 2-3 days, and the big blue button I used to have for all of my apps had about 5 per day. Overall, very little traffic from my website. It was mostly about less work for maintenance when I built new apps.

You probably already know, but for the benefit of everyone else: if you're advertising an app, when you create a new ad, make sure to select "App / digital content ad" and then "App promotion ad". It will do all of the OS targeting for you and pull in your app icon, name, and URL automatically.

I'm the developer of this app. The critique was really useful; I'm already starting to implement some of the suggestions.

Feel free to ask me any questions. I have a lot of data on which marketing techniques have paid off and which haven't. I just started running an online and print ad campaign in Hawaii Magazine.