Well it has officially been 7 days since I posted my first app on App Market. I have to say I have been very pleasantly surprised with the results thus far. I had no experience building an app before last week. I quickly learned the basics off App Inventor and decided to post the first one on the market to test the results. Some lessons learned:
- If you post an app for free you cannot charge for it later. I avoided this by putting a price on mine from the beginning (this is to make money after all)
- Even a very simple app can generate income within minutes
- Niche markets are the best performers (no competition)
- App Inventor Apps will have difficulty competing with full featured apps created by professional programmers
- Weekends seem to generate the most installs
A very large portion of my installs are cancelled before money is collected. The user has this option for 24 hours. I have not been able to determine the cause for this with my apps but I suspect that they are not what the user expected. I have not received comments from any users as of yet on my paid apps to answer this question for me.
Here are the results for payments so far:
Here are the installs currently:
No too bad :)
