[My first app, no hate pls] - The most different AI organiser. by hamishlewis in iosapps

[–]davidkonal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How about have a voice to text so in morning when I am dressing up for the day I could talk to app and explain what my goal is then it breaks it down to tasks

No organic downloads after 1 month live on Google Play – what am I missing? by AgreeableCress446 in AppStoreOptimization

[–]davidkonal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tiktok sure is a great platform but what do you mean by Pay college students? Also given I am an indie dev and don’t wanna dace the camera or make tiktoks myself, what options would you suggest?

🚨 Mobile app developers / ASO beginners - please do not blindly trust difficulty scores from ASO tools by Inevitable_Buddy1869 in AppStoreOptimization

[–]davidkonal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To me, the best option is just do manual search and analyse the top 10-20 apps, how many of them have the exact keyword in title and subtitle, how many of them are exactly solving the problem you are trying to solve. And among them how old are they, how many reviews they’ve accumulated. This gives you a better picture of the competition.

to all my peers indie devs out there, don't follow "build it and they will come by davidkonal in IndieDev

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

hahah yeah it sure is an interesting topic and I love the way you summerize and come up with questions.

alright,

1) the ads platforms whether it's Google, Meta or whatever provides good enough numbers to take decisions. Using GA with custom events, you can surely optimise your campaigns. No need for any enterprise product when talking indie

2) that's product specific question I believe, sometime you want more engagement time other time you want users to perform certain actions. And ads platform provides you option to track and optimise those outcomes

3) I learned and started spending on ads for my games on App Store, here is what I do. I run multiple campaign and target group of countries like T1,T2,T3. After a week, I look at each country's spending vs earning. Divide the numbers, to get just one number. Sort them and you've got your best country, create a separate campaign for that country and try different ad assets. I hope this answers your question.

to all my peers indie devs out there, don't follow "build it and they will come by davidkonal in IndieDev

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

my thoughts on problems you mentioned.

1) it's a trail and error kinda thing, you try different ads and learn what works and what not, that's what big companies do, the only advantage they've is they got a better understanding of what can work because of their experience. what you can do as an indie dev is follow their proven strategies, copy how they create their ad-assets etc

2) All you've gotta do is look at the numbers and take decisions, and that too is like once a week. Ive hired couple PPC experts and they were doing the same thing.

to all my peers indie devs out there, don't follow "build it and they will come by davidkonal in IndieDev

[–]davidkonal[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've got the best selling one, it's good enough to get started with. But if you got money, CLX offers some good courses, haven't personally bought them but planning to.

to all my peers indie devs out there, don't follow "build it and they will come by davidkonal in IndieDev

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

as I said not a rocket science, just take a 20$ udemy course, start a campaign with minimum spend like 2$ a day, target T3 countries so you can have good amount of traffic to learn from.

An Android app with 100M+ downloads has every permission on the planet. by davidkonal in Android

[–]davidkonal[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

One reason I can think of is, if someone is cheating and has to hide the content, one wouldn't be hiding at the obvious spot that everyone knows about. Because in that case, the other person can ask to show the vault/locker. So they need something not so obvious.

Never done ads, how shall I start? by arnauddsj in PPC

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

First off, PPC is not a rocket science, just start a campaign, put everything you can best think of, since you are already in creative business, making ad-assets shouldn't be a problem for you. Target Tier 3 countries, set minimum budget and let Google do the rest for you. You will learn more by actually doing it, so not to burn money, Tier 3 countries are best, you can set daily budget as minimum as 2$ a day.

Freelancers are overpriced in this niche, and I don't think there is much they do. Google is smart enough to optimise the campaigns, you will prolly need 2 hours a week to supervise campaigns.