I have no idea how half my apps in 2010 got approved. it was really nice to see an app that i built in 1 week, bring in $1-3~ a day for a solid year. Then I spammed the crap out of that formula.
My very HN username is based around this idea of building a simple app and throwing it on the App Store and making 10 dollars per day, rinse and repeat..
Can you provide a link to the apps in question? Most of my free apps don't get past 7 downloads total...
Does that still work now?
Eh I haven't really tried in about 5~ years. I wanted to focus on more high quality content. It definitely died down near the tail-end of me experimenting with low-quality high-volume apps.