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Made it to 60,963 installs

It's been a long ride. I remember hustling for only 10 users last year in Feb. I never had the money to advertise and to date I have never spent a dime on ads to get users. I currently have 21,364 active users and the number is increasing each day. Am so glad I never gave up. Here's the link to Business Startup. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=business_ideas.entrepreneur_mindset.business_plans.business.ideas.BusinessStartup

, Founder of Icon for Business Startup
Business Startup
on September 16, 2019
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    Congrats man! I think your rating count is too low. You should open a modal when users open app 3-5x times and ask them give 5 rating. Also if you have a lot if 5 starts your daily downloads number will be increase much quickly.

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      I never thought of that. That's really amazing. Thanx irfansener

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    Woohoo!
    Congratulations for this huge accomplishment.
    Just think where you'll be in Feb 2020 at this pace. 🙌

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      It's hard for me to believe attimes AnitaToth Thanks a lot for your encouraging words.

      They really mean a lot to me.

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    That's impressive!

    If I got it right, the app is a book, why did you decide for an app? How do you retain users after they finish the book?

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      Thank you. The decision to make this app was at a very emotional time for me. I had read an article by a blogger who had been dissing devs in our country for not creating successful apps. I guess this fueled me to prove the blogger wrong. Retaining my users hasn't been my focus until recent. Am still new to this industry. It's only been two years. Here's my plan Luqa (feel free to complement or critic me)

      Google recently made merchant accounts capable in my country this year. As soon as I got to know of that I started on a project with a friend (My aim is to retain users, up sell and cross sell products to them through this new musical app)

      At the moment I started Business Startup I had no clue what retaining users was and how important it would be. But I now know. After this project am currently working on. I'll look into retaining my users in Business Startup (I'll probably add in-app purchases for additional features as stated in my interview with Farhan)

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    That’s a great number Paget! No small feat! Congrats

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      Thanx tonixx Am not sure about the number of users from my blog. The blog is just a few months old (maybe 2 or 3 months)

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