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Shameless plug here, but before I would model the round in Capshare.com so you can see how the terms play out with different exit scenarios.

Then say that in the post. The post isn't giving the impression that these types of tests might be valuable at one point.

You typically don't feel the pain of not having tests until your app starts to get big and/or starts to have lots of developers. That simple assert :success could catch a regression because you were using meta search while on rails 3 and now it doesn't work on rails 4. You also don't feel the pain of end-to-end testing until you rely on them too much and they are fickle, and hard to maintain.

>> You can confirm this by looking closely at other apps in your class to see if there really is a scenario where you could get eg 4 digits of downloads in one day.

I am not sure how you could confirm this since Apple doesn't publish the number of downloads that an App gets in a day for a particular app or set of apps.

>> I also think it's a weakness that it's not available outside iOS as it would be very hard for any company to standardise around you vs something all their drivers can use.

It is also available on Android.

>> It may also be a drawback that drivers have to pay for you themselves, or are companies able to pay subscriptions for them?

Yeah, I am planning on making more of an offering for companies, however, in initial research it has been very difficult to 1) Find companies that need to do mileage tracking and 2) Find the right person to talk to and (3) actually sell them on a package.

Millions of people need to track their mileage for all kinds of reasons. It is one of the biggest tax deduction that is taken, so I don't really see it as niche (unless you mean something else).

I want to build a lasting business, that is why I charge $9 a year. I want to build something that will be around for a long time. I beat out a large majority of apps that are cheaper that do the same thing.

I agree that distribution is key. I think the point was more that Apps are not making near the money I would have thought they were making. To be ranked in the top 20 in "Top Grossing" for Finance, I would have expected that number to be much higher. That means that the far majority of Apps in that category aren't making much. In other words, I have distribution down much better than others.

The bubble I was referring to is really the bubble of way-to-many apps on the App Store. This bubble is driven by too many people having the expectation of creating an App, and having it "Go Big". As that expectation "pops", there will be far less people getting into the App game.