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I posted my first mac app yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5668813

It got just 20 downloads (USA) and it went to the Top 75 in the Utilities category. I guess I missed the inflection point by just little bit.

The surprising part here is, all except 75 apps in the category gets less than 20 downloads? Whoa! Very little people on the top can make a living out of app development.

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I think the mac app store is a much much MUCH smaller market than the iOS app store. It's a new way for people to get apps on a desktop and my guess is the adoption is slower, so it isn't really surprising to me that 20 downloads puts you into the top of your category.

I have no data to back this up, btw. I'd be interested in seeing some mac vs. ios store numbers. Anyone?

Even in the iOS store, I'm often surprised at how few downloads it takes to chart in the top 1000. So there may be 80,000+ apps in a category, but clearly the vast majority of them receive very few downloads.

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