Show HN: I made an app discovery app, any feedback?(itunes.apple.com)
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Show HN: I made an app discovery app, any feedback?
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/see-the-app/id470079430?mt=8&uo=4
2 comments
Thanks Brandon:
1) Agreed
2) I've had a review that said something similar. I'm reluctant to show too much, because I'm trying to keep the overall use of the app to a very simple experience, and leave the "buying decision" as it were to the App Store. The piece of data I've come closest to including is a star rating... I'll revisit this with some more thought.
3) Agreed, right now it is choosing randomly from a database of all apps fitting criteria (price, device, country, category). Ideally, I would want to have a click through ratio on an app to determine the "most interesting" screenshots, but I haven't implemented all the data tracking to make this happen yet.
1) Agreed
2) I've had a review that said something similar. I'm reluctant to show too much, because I'm trying to keep the overall use of the app to a very simple experience, and leave the "buying decision" as it were to the App Store. The piece of data I've come closest to including is a star rating... I'll revisit this with some more thought.
3) Agreed, right now it is choosing randomly from a database of all apps fitting criteria (price, device, country, category). Ideally, I would want to have a click through ratio on an app to determine the "most interesting" screenshots, but I haven't implemented all the data tracking to make this happen yet.
Are the applications manually curated or are you using the top lists? (or something else?)
Definitely not the top list. I opened the Health category which I follow very closely since my application is in that category. I study the top 100 app positions of many apps in the category to see how they are changing each day. I scrolled through about 15 apps in the discovery app and didn't recognize a single one. If it is hand curated, I would say it is poorly done.
What's your application?
Random selection of all apps fitting a given critera (device, category, price, country)
2) When you click an app, it should show the name and a few of the recent reviews, not take you out of the app to the app store, it is to much of a context switch from a user standpoint when you do that.
3) However you are picking to show the applications needs to be improved. All the apps I saw are boring low quality apps.