My 3-days old $1 iOS app is now trending worldwide and #6 number on the US App Store
Story:
Saturday night (19 Sep), I make live the first version on the App Store and go to bed. Next morning I saw the appstoreconnect trend suddenly show up and saw that my app is trending at #4 number in the US.
It was really magic because the app's design is really really simple with nice gestures and the app idea was what people are looking for.
Undoubtedly, I’m gonna improve based on feedback and review.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/solid-color-wallpapers/id1530725189
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Your next step would be to get in email Apple and get them to feature you and 10x the # of users :)
Is that one real way to get featured? What's the email address for that, and do you have a reference to someone successfully doing this?
yeah, you have to apply to be featured. As all things Apple, it's somewhat of a blackbox, but I've seen it happen.
Check out the last section of this page on how to get featured
Nice, thanks!
Thank you, Marius!
I wish :) Thank you!
Any update on this? This is awesome
Thank you, Rehero
This app is still in the top 10 in Graphics and Design category(🇺🇸) but no. of units are not as expected. It's just a 2~3 in a day. Anyway, I'm still happy as people getting notice it and it's inspiring me to keep continue work on it :)
I love this. More proof simplicity is what sells the most. The general public want the most simple of things . It's easy to build a very advanced and complicated system. The hardest but is simplifying it.
Thank you, Sunny! 💯
Congrats man! The simplest apps are always the best 🤙
Thank you! True
No idea is big or small or existing... you have proved it again brother... keep it up. Simplicity is key... i love this app.
Thank you :)
How did you promote it?
No. I didn't promote it.
Congratulations Sunil! I was talking with a mate this morning about the new aesthetics opportunities iOS14 is giving people and your product looks like it's timed the market perfectly.
Thank you, Rob :) That's true~
In todays saturated app market, simple ideas like this are great!
Indeed!
congratulations! This is what all of us, want to achieve on the App Store :)
Yes, Martin. I agree with you.
Wow what an amazing app I no longer have to take pictures of solid colors in order to have a background that I like. I'm pretty sure Apple's going to steal your idea bro I bet you in less than 6 months that feature is going to be integrated into the next version of iOS. Try to get your money out of that app now man and push your marketing advertised to anybody who has a Safari browser on Facebook and you'll tear it up.
That's an awesome, Keith. Just like iOS 14 copied widget. haha
Thanks bro :)
Next time someone tells me that all ideas have already been done I'll show them this!
Well, I had the same mindset when I started software engineer job 8 years ago.
But this is the result after I realised "Simplest things are often the truest. - Richard Bach".
Thanks :)
Awesome. I love the idea of the app. Nothing sells like simplicity. Planning to launch this for android?
Thank you :) I'm just focusing on iOS platform only.
Nice Job!
Do you mind sharing how much users that got you so far?
Did you do any other marketing activity to promote your app?
As it's just <72 hours since I launched on app store, So can't see all data to share with you.
About marketing, No. I just used relevant keywords and title.
I normally integrate mixpanel or facebook to track real-time data. Not sure if it's worth the hassle (Mostly I use that to check the user funnel)
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Thank you :)