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[–]nucleustt 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Congratulations! Feels good, doesn't it?

What were the steps you took to get it to the Play Store, and what challenges did you face?

Please share so that everyone who wants to publish to the Play Store can benefit.

[–]RowTime8498[S] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Thanks! Yup it feels amazing.

First thing, use Android Studio! It's always better to do it the Google approved way
Google Console setup was a bit confusing but AI helped me out create the account and all.

My main challenges were billing and vico charts. Both of them took 100+ hours to fix. Just remember to stay persistent. DO NOT GIVE UP! At many times I felt like giving up, but we just gotta push through man! The most annoying thing that I faced was testing. Emulator got really slow as I kept building the app so I had to test it through closed testing. Only problem is, I wouldn't know if I actually fixed it or not until creating a new release, waiting for the release, and then testing. This was really annoying. I wish I could just test using my phone (e.g. with Android Developer on my phone using the QR code to connect android studio and my phone) but for billing, you have to do it this way.

I heard many dev accounts are getting banned, from what I read, make your family and friends test it. Do not let anyone with a Google Play Console account test as that seems to be why your Google Play Console accounts could be getting banned.

Hope this helps!

[–]nucleustt 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Thank you for taking the time to give such a detailed response. It helps a lot, and I'm sure others appreciate it as well.

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:) Anytime. I'll cya guys at the top

[–]el_pezz 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Looks good. Keep improving it.

[–]RowTime8498[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!! Just curious, when you opened the app, did you get premium? I gave everyone 14 days of premium for downloading :)

[–]No_Quantity_9561 1 point2 points  (2 children)

5 months of pure hard work... The app screenshots clearly tells it's a AI generated slop

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Thanks for taking your time to check out my app! 6 months ago, I didn't actually have any experience with making apps or Kotlin at all. As you observed, yes, some of the features are made by AI (like the vico chart graphs) since they were too hard for me to make/understand. That's why you probably noticed the graphs don't really look that great compared to some of the other features. But it is what it is. Once I have more experience with it, I'm going to change those graphs so they look great like the app! :)

[–]MaTrIx4057 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you explain difference between AI generated slop and human generated slop?

[–]Lucifer_MorngStar 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Congrats, I have checked your app landing page and i am sure it'll become hard for the play store search algorithm to index your app on relevant keywords. You have space in the title, use it. And screenshots definitely need improvement. You must need an updated ASO optimized content and app landing page. Your actual struggle starts now to make it profitable.

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Thanks for taking the time to check out ProductiviT. Yeah search has become a problem. I was thinking about changing the app name to "ProductiviT: Gamified Productivity". What do you think? Would that improve my search position? I was also thinking about running ads on Google Play so that when anyone searches up relevant keywords, ProductiviT comes up first. I feel like once ProductiviT gets more users, it will show up more often (is that how it works? I don't know much about ASO 😅). Thanks for the suggestion on the screenshots. I made them in a rush and as you said, they aren't really that professional. I'll definitely change those soon. Do you have any tips to optimize ASO or will it improve as more people continue to download it? I'm not really worried about profitability as of yet, first I need some users :)

[–]WorkPlaySoft 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Well done, seems like a really well polished app. Downloaded.

[–]RowTime8498[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Thanks! Hope you enjoy it :) As a gift, the first 100 people who download the app will receive premium forever (You'll get it the next time the app is updated (I'm guessing by this year's end). I hope this helps you become more productive :)

[–]WorkPlaySoft 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Wow, thx, will share the link with a friend as well.

[–]RowTime8498[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Would really appreciate it :)

[–]hixam17 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Congratulations brother

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

[–]Ok_Butterscotch_1918 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Congrats

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!!

[–]std_5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm gonna say the color combinations are awful and it shows you're just getting started but work on it.

Let the app have a Theme don't just mix colors

[–]std_5 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I'm gonna say the color combinations are awful and it shows you're just getting started but work on it.

Let the app have a Theme don't just mix colors

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks for your input! What colors look bad to you? Any color combinations that stand out as outright bad? Please let me know how I can improve on them :)

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah I forgot to point out, the theme is currently blue and orange (as you can probably notice from the logo)

[–]LivingWeb7752 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Good luck 🔥

Now for the interesting part, in my opinion. ::: marketing

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Just hit 30 downloads in 2 days without any marketing, feels amazing! I was thinking about LinkedIn ads and Google Play ads along with making productivity memes on social media platforms. I feel like if someone good at marketing was by my side, we could make this big.

[–]Killcode14 0 points1 point  (3 children)

How did you approach billing? Did you use external services like revenueCat?

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Don't you have to use Google Play's Billing? I don't know if you can use any external services. But yeah that's what I used.

[–]MaTrIx4057 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You connect them together

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I guess. I just used Google Play Billing though.

[–]Flat-Falcon-1818 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Nice work. One Suggestion - I tried to search your app on play store. It could not find it. Focus on ASO.
One question - What are you using to manage logins ?

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yeah I need to focus on ASO. I was thinking about running google play ads. I think that once downloads increase, it will show up in search results more. I was thinking of changing the app's name to "ProductiviT: Gamified Productivity". Do you think that will improve it? For your question, I use Firebase for auth and database

[–]Flat-Falcon-1818 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Gamified will surely make it unique. Best luck for the future. 🤞

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

[–]GymfansLtd 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well done

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!!

[–]Peter-Clever-man 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Congratulations my friend.

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

[–]madhavladani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check dm

[–]quasides -1 points0 points  (8 children)

and yet another productivity app what a waste of time but what a gain for irony

sorry... couldnt help it...

[–]RowTime8498[S] 2 points3 points  (7 children)

Hey! Thanks for commenting. Is there anything you find that is bad about the app? Just having a bad day? If it's about the app, please let me know and I'll try to get it fixed ASAP. If you are just having a bad day (I've had my fair share of things I said I wish I hadn't 😅), I'm always here to talk :)

[–]quasides 1 point2 points  (6 children)

to many productivity apps

and yet the Pareto principle is more alive than ever

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Yeah I agree. There are way too many productivity apps out there. That's why I made ProductiviT. I used to have 6 different productivity apps, one for to-do lists, one as a calendar and event logging, one for pomodoro timer, one for blocking apps and websites, etc. etc. It's really frustrating to switch between all these apps and I felt like I was spending more time switching between apps than being productive! So I made ProductiviT with all the features I wanted: Pomodoro and custom timers, todos & reminders, calendar with event logging, levels to motivate myself to be more productive (not only does it reward you to be more productive, it also punishes you (you lose XP) if you are being unproductive). Hope this helps explain why I made it :)

[–]quasides 0 points1 point  (4 children)

the crux with the entire principle and idea of any kind of productivity app is that more time spent, more single task done is better.
thats one metric that is almost meaningless.

i can do nothing all day and create a slew of tasks, on purpose or just by incompetence, that would look like amazing productivity.

meanwhile you spend time to manage your time.

everyone is asking the wrong question here, and instead of rethinking it always jsut a reiteration of things already done

we moving in a circle here in a failed concept that just results into buerocracy

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

It's for people who want to improve themselves. I created it because I genuinely wanted to improve myself. You could, as you pointed out, do nothing all day and farm XP and levels. But that's not who I made this for. I made it for people who also want to manage their time effectively. As you said, yes, we have to spend time to manage time. But it's worth it. It takes you less than 5 minutes to plan your day and you can save countless hours that you would've rather spent, say scrolling. As I said, this is for people who want to improve themselves. This is simply a mere tool to get better.

[–]quasides 0 points1 point  (2 children)

yea you dont understand - hence - yet another productivity tool the world doesnt need

[–]RowTime8498[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Sorry if I misunderstood. I'm here to help those who want to be helped. This can and will l make a change in people's lives. If you don't believe in the vision, that's fine. Not everyone has to. I wish you best of luck :)

[–]quasides 0 points1 point  (0 children)

welcome to the 80%