In short: Grades has been prominently featured by Apple in their “New and Noteworthy” section!
A lot of people have been asking me how Grades has been going. My answer so far has been “pretty good for an indy app.” I didn’t want to give any hard numbers until I have more data. I was also waiting for last night because my final card had not yet been played.
Now it has. Apple noticed.
I have been obsessing over ways to get Apple’s attention. A big launch is part of it. Networking with employees on Twitter is another part. But I think the most important technique I found was to build respect in the iPhone developer community (via this blog and Twitter). I think this respect trickled down to Apple.
Grades has been blasting up the charts. At the time of writing Grades is #6 in Education. We’ll see if this is enough to break the top 100. I think it’s possible.
There is still a lot to learn and the journey has just begun but at this point I would like to thank all my friends and fellow developers for all that you have done to help me get to this point. Yeah!
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Congratulations for your success with the Grades app, and I really appreciate the way you are sharing with everybody the strategy that you are using with your app in the app store.
Congratulations! I’ve personally tried out Grades and Its pretty good. Good work!
Let me know when Tapity goes public
Thanks everyone.
LTH: haha, dealing with shareholders is the last thing I ever want to do.
Congrats on breaking into the New and Noteworthy section!
Great job. Congratulations. Hope to see this app keep doing well.
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