{"id":308216,"date":"2010-02-11T15:19:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T20:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=13164"},"modified":"2010-02-11T15:19:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T20:19:26","slug":"developers-even-this-app-will-sell-why-are-you-missing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/308216","title":{"rendered":"Developers: Even this app will sell, why are you missing out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13164\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13164\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/speedtracker.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"speedtracker\" border=\"0\" alt=\"speedtracker\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/speedtracker_thumb.png\" width=\"184\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Joel Ivory Johnson, a pretty active mobile developer, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeproject.com\/Articles\/51683\/Submitting-to-Windows-Marketplace-for-Mobile-and-S.aspx\" >written about his experience<\/a> in submitting a simple application to <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=marketplace\" >marketplace<\/a>. The very simple demo application, <a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.windowsphone.com\/details.aspx?appSKU=a0533eb5-f77a-486b-96a4-e91994072a4c&amp;retURL=\/search.aspx%3Fkeywords%3Dspeedtracker\" >Speedtracker<\/a>,&#160; which simply measures speed using GPS measurements, was coded specifically to test the ease of the submission process.<\/p>\n<p>Joel initially planned to release the app for free, but was convinced to try and charge for it, and released it for the lowest cost, $0.99. The app became available about a month after submission.<\/p>\n<p>He reports sales of nearly $100 in the first week, and now seems to have developed a taste for the money, as he plans to release an update with better utility and a more attractive user interface.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson developers should take away from this however is that Joel will likely make a few hundred dollars from possibly a 2 hours of work, and that the submission process to the Windows Mobile Marketplace is not onerous.<\/p>\n<p>In essence, if you have a simple application and are not porting it to marketplace, you may as well be flushing your money down the toilet.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j2i.net\/BlogEngine\/post\/2010\/02\/11\/So-theres-Money-to-be-Made-in-the-Marketplace.aspx\" >Joel\u2019s blogpost here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13164&amp;linkname=Developers%3A%20Even%20this%20app%20will%20sell%2C%20why%20are%20you%20missing%20out%3F\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Ivory Johnson, a pretty active mobile developer, has written about his experience in submitting a simple application to marketplace. The very simple demo application, Speedtracker,&#160; which simply measures speed using GPS measurements, was coded specifically to test the ease of the submission process. Joel initially planned to release the app for free, but was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}