On September 19 I started a new App Project called Minutes, the idea behind it was to provide a simple way to create meeting minutes in order to get the best out of every meeting.
Follow up previous meetings over email is the worst and most of the tools in the market have a project focus but don't seem to consider well meetings.
The project was launch in December with very small but consistent numbers over the first 2 months.
In April the App was selected in the Editorial section of the iOS AppStore for the LATAM Region in the Time Management collection, this was an amazing boost to the impressions of the app and the downloads.
Then in early May the app was chosen App of the Day also in LATAM, this event by it self sky rocket the installations of the app up to 5K in a single week!.
You reed about this kind of things or hear about it in podcasts but once you get to live it your self, is a very rewarding experience to see your indie project or side project become something in the hands of so many people with an idea validation from something huge like Apple.
Here is the story Apple did create for the app: https://apps.apple.com/story/id1501871667
Keep coding, make it happen!
Lovely! If you don't mind my asking, how many downloads were you getting during the first part when your numbers were small but consistent? I just made one of my apps (https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/trestle/id1300230302) free since it wasn't making money, and it gets about 2 downloads a day now. Wondering if you had higher than that, initially?
The first day the App was launched it reached around 80 downloads, after that I had around 100 downloads a month. With the AppStore selections, numbers sky rocket
A great story @jorgevmendoza. Keep up the great work.
Thanks! glad you like it!
Awesome app, congrats, Jorge! This is inspiring :)
Do you have any estimates so far on how many paid conversions you'd be getting from those 5k installs?
So far the conversion on those new Downloads is low I need to implement a better funnel process
Nicely done, congrats!
Thanks! I love to share my story so other Indie Hackers feel what I call the Hunger for creating new stuff