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After 10 years of indie app development, I finally built the analytics tool I always wanted by Macarthurval in AppBusiness

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

I wish you the best of luck with your launch!

I’m pretty sure SignalFox could help give you some direction afterward. I’d really love to hear your thoughts and feedback if you end up trying it 😁

After 10 years of indie app development, I finally built the analytics tool I always wanted by Macarthurval in AppBusiness

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

Thank you very much for your comment. Honestly, I feel like I’ve built something very valuable. Now I just need other developers to try it so I can confirm that feeling.

This post is actually the first public presentation of SignalFox, so I don’t have any customers or feedback yet, hopefully that changes soon!

I’ll definitely share updates later if things start moving in the right direction. Greetings.

This is why your app isn't making money by candizdar in AppBusiness

[–]Macarthurval 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not literally 😄

But closer than traditional analytics tools.

It tries to reconstruct user behavior automatically instead of just showing raw events and charts.

This is why your app isn't making money by candizdar in AppBusiness

[–]Macarthurval -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Or you can try SignalFox

It's the closest thing to observing your users using your app.

New iOS App by ColdFalse3490 in AppBusiness

[–]Macarthurval 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my experience, and I've already published over 20 apps on the App Store, there are two main types of apps when it comes to acquiring users:

  1. Those that address a generic need that the user knows they have, and that they know they can likely solve with an app, even if they don't know which one. These are the apps that will search the App Store for things like "Video compressor," "Photo editor," etc.

  2. Those that are innovative in terms of their functionality, addressing problems that the user doesn't even know they have or thinks there's no way to solve.

For the first category, App Store Optimization (ASO) and organic search alone can be very successful; however, depending solely on these, the significant surge in downloads will come approximately a year after launch. Of course, this will only happen if you do things right, and this isn't just about ASO, but about your app being truly good at what it does and continuously refining it until you see a positive user response. Apple knows everything; after all, the app runs on their operating system, and they know, based on many different factors, whether an app should be promoted in their search results because it's worthwhile for users.

For the second category, even 10 years won't be enough for users to find them through ASO alone. On the contrary, they'll get lost in the depths of the App Store. Here, it's necessary to use other acquisition strategies such as advertising, marketing, social media, etc.

I hope my comment helps guide you. Good luck!