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Re:My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report on Thursday December 19, 2013 @10:45AM (#6935263)
I have my top two games Wood Puzzler and Exotic Pet Puzzler in the education category, they are geared towards learning the alphabet and have lots of extras. I recently tried keyword stuffing the title as I've seen others doing, but it hasn't had any affect. Both those games have paid and free-with-IAP, which works well. My most recent game below, we've done tons of free/paid marketing and cannot penetrate at all, maybe 1-3 sales per day. Thanks again.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exotic-pet-puzzler/id7178059...

Re:My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report on Thursday December 19, 2013 @10:27AM (#6935133)
Hi Pierre, thanks for your new inspirational article and your previous one. I have 3 kids and attempted the educational apps market 2 years ago, I didn't have nearly as much success as you. My games are not pure education either, so maybe that's my issue, but they are more educational than my competitors. Do you have any specific advice for my situation? Congrats to you!

http://www.littlefivegames.com

Ask HN: How can I succeed in the educational apps market?

Posted by tsuriyathep on Monday November 18, 2013 @01:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.

So two years ago I decided to get into children's educational apps and games. For the same reason a lot of programmer parents probably find themselves in, because they have kids and want to make programs for them to learn. I teamed up with an artist friend and we've made around 10 games so far part-time with no luck. We've done lots of tweeting, facebooking, paid press releases, keyword...

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Re:How do you know if you're an Over-Engineer? on Friday February 10, 2012 @05:48PM (#3577835)
I'm not saying the words "elegant" or "beautiful" is wrong. I'm just saying from my experience, non-programmers think I'm a fanatic and give me funny looks when I say that. Could be the way I'm saying it :)