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Wired - Tired - Expired / for Musicians (Strummer App)

by Zilla · in iTorque 2D · 10/29/2009 (5:39 pm) · 17 replies

Expired:
Sell your newest CD to your friends.

Tired:
Sell your newest ringtones to your friends.

Wired:
Sell your newest music app to your friends.

Here's mine:
Website: www.swisskgb.com/strummer
App Store : itunes.com/apps/strummer

Check it out and make me rich ;)


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Torque Owner Zilla
#1
10/29/2009 (5:49 pm)
I also made a post in the Success stories section, but just for notification. I won't post any further infos there. I will write any additional stuff in this thread.

When you follow the link to the app store, you will see that the 512x512 icon is quite ugly... The transparency region of the png file (that displays correctly on a mac or pc) looks terrible on the app store. When you go to the app store with your iPhone, everything is correct... Anyway, I had to upload another 512x512 icon without transparency information, but it takes about 24 hours until it will be displayed in itunes.

Torque Owner Zilla
#2
10/29/2009 (6:00 pm)
This app would not have been possible without the friendly help of the people in this community, especially:
Marc Schaerer
Dave Calabrese
Ronny Bangsund
Craig Fortune
Nate Gertsch
Bret Patterson
David Gagnon
Lin Chear
and many, many others

Thank you very much :)))

Torque Owner Zilla
#3
10/29/2009 (6:06 pm)
Quote:Check it out and make me rich ;)

I will soon try to submit a free lite version of Strummer.

Torque Owner Zilla
#4
10/30/2009 (4:19 am)
Quote:Anyway, I had to upload another 512x512 icon without transparency information, but it takes about 24 hours until it will be displayed in itunes.

The new icon is on iTunes now. It took under 12 hours.

Torque Owner Bret Patterson
#5
10/30/2009 (10:55 am)
Looks really cool. I think you have a possible huge hit on your hands. I haven't fully looked at it but if you added a way to select presets for popular songs I can see a lot of people buying this. It's pretty tough for non-musically inclined people to figure out what chords a song uses :).

Torque Owner Zilla
#6
10/30/2009 (11:47 am)
@Bret
Thank you :)

Quote:I think you have a possible huge hit on your hands.
When I was 18, I dreamed that I would soon have a number one hit in the music charts... As everybody knows, that has never happened but thanks to the app store I'll be finally able to quit my day job ;)

Seriously, even if you were right, it would be useless, because the app store is all about visibility and I made a big mistake with the release date: www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/91691/1#comment-693785

I won't cry ;) and I will try to regain speed with some "marketing" and a free light version of strummer.

Torque 3D Owner Ronny Bangsund
Torque Cheerleaders
#7
10/30/2009 (12:16 pm)
Congratulations on the release! Check out that list Chris posted and market the hell out of it :)

Torque Owner Zilla
#8
12/09/2009 (10:41 am)
My new free app StrummerLite is available on the App Store and it seems that it was released 24 december 2009! ;)

www.gymprojects.ch/zilla/images/strummerlitechristmas.png

Torque 3D Owner Ronny Bangsund
Torque Cheerleaders
#9
12/09/2009 (11:06 am)
Whoah, I knew the Swiss had many secrets, but wasn't quite aware your time machine was ready for use!

Torque Owner Zilla
#10
12/09/2009 (12:39 pm)
I don't think that the Swiss invented the App Store time machine, because it seems quite common to go back to the future with Apple:

www.torquepowered.com/community/forums/viewthread/91691/1#comment-697261

Torque 3D Owner Ronny Bangsund
Torque Cheerleaders
#11
12/09/2009 (1:18 pm)
Keep us posted on how this affects your visibility in the list of new releases. And remember to report bugs to the bug reporter :)

Torque Owner Zilla
#12
12/09/2009 (1:49 pm)
At the moment (december 9, 7 pm Central Europe) my app is NOT visible in the list of new releases :( it is even NOT visible if I sort the music apps alphabetically and try to find StrummerLite under "S"...

It IS visible if I SEARCH for "Strummer" or "StrummerLite" on iTunes.

Torque Owner Zilla
#13
12/09/2009 (6:23 pm)
Ha! Now I am on top of the new releases list of the music category
(still with my "Christmas Eve app"... :)

www.gymprojects.ch/zilla/images/strummerlitechristmas2.png

side by side with an app that will be released the day after tomorrow...

I don't complain but I wonder how long this will last...

Torque Owner Zilla
#14
12/11/2009 (9:15 am)
It's over... ;)
After more than one day on page 1 of the new releases in the music category, StrummerLite is only on page 3 now.

It was downloaded over 700 times during this short period!

With the full version Strummer (99 Cents), I get about 1-2 downloads a day :(

It's funny what people suddenly "need" when it's free... ;)

Torque Owner Bret Patterson
#15
12/11/2009 (10:56 am)
1-2 downloads a day seems to be the norm once your off of the top 100 list. I've found that marketing, reviews etc don't make a noticeable difference in your sales. The only thing that seems to make a difference is being in the top 100 lists.

Torque Owner Zilla
#16
12/12/2009 (7:24 am)
Yes. The top 100 list is the holy grail on the App Store. There you can sell ANYTHING where outside it you can promote your app like hell without any significant change in your sales...

Torque Owner Zilla
#17
01/27/2010 (6:04 pm)
StrummerLite is in the Top 100 charts in the music category (top free apps) :)
itunes.com/apps/strummerlite :)