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kapeli | 10 years ago | on: The Mac App Store Won’t Make You Rich

> Perhaps you should contact the OP's author and see if they'll write a followup about you.

I don't think they care about someone making a living on the App Store. They either care about failures or about getting insanely rich.

kapeli | 10 years ago | on: The Mac App Store Won’t Make You Rich

No marketing really. At the beginning, almost all users came from the Mac App Store.

I've tried different marketing things along the way, like sponsored posts or Google Adwords. Probably spent around $500 in total on marketing during the lifetime of the app. None had a meaningful effect so I kind of stopped trying.

I mostly focus on engaging my users as much as I can and trying to make them happy, so that they will recommend Dash to others.

kapeli | 10 years ago | on: The Mac App Store Won’t Make You Rich

Not sure how it is on iOS, but I'd assume your app has to deserve to some extent to be in the top. If you're in the top because of a fluke (e.g. you got featured in some blog post), you'll fall as soon as the hype fades. No idea really, the most "high-ranked" I've been on iOS was around rank 80 Top Grossing in the Productivity category, which I lost as soon as the launch hype faded.

kapeli | 10 years ago | on: The Mac App Store Won’t Make You Rich

Every app is a special case, yes. I was just saying that the numbers in the article are not real. Redacted (the app) didn't stay in the top grossing rank enough. It just climbed and fell.

kapeli | 10 years ago | on: The Mac App Store Won’t Make You Rich

This is complete bullshit. My app (Dash) has been in the Top Grossing on the USA Mac App Store at pretty much any rank.

There's a huge difference between climbing to the top and then instantly failing and actually staying at the top.

A full day in Top Grossing on the Mac App Store gives you something like this:

Ranks #10 to #20: at least $2-4k per day. Ranks #30 to #80: around $800-1k per day. Ranks #80 to #150: around $500-$800 per day.

All sums are after Apple's cut. They fluctuate a bit depending on the day of the week.

I make more than the mentioned $454 per day at ranks of around #200.

My revenue report from last year can be found here: https://blog.kapeli.com/my-year-in-review-2014.

kapeli | 10 years ago | on: The Mac App Store Won’t Make You Rich

The Mac App Store is my main revenue source. I released my iOS app in November 2014. The revenue from it wasn't worth mentioning separately in last year's report.

This year, the revenue from iOS is around 10% of the Mac app.

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