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Chris.. I just ordered two. Because: 1. cool product 2. your hustle 3. the cool post telling us about it all

Thanks for sharing your story. Looks like your position in the AppStore search results are rising nicely too. And fortunately they are all high volume keywords... http://www.straply.com/app/apple/bytesize/7-minute-workout

We measure a small sample of AppStore and Play Store searches. Since the sample size is small, we can't really nail down exact search counts, but we can give relative estimates.

Hi everyone, George from Straply here. (thanks for the shout out bthinker)

If you've got any feedback or questions about Straply, I'd be happy to chat about it.

Same here :(

Cool site!

Suggestions: - Use Gravatar for the avatar - Add a field in the profile for GitHub

Also, just added mine... http://breakpoint.io/116-straply/

Do this experiment: 1. Go to Google.com 2. Enter "filthy stinking" into the box 3. Notice the first autocomplete suggestion

Mamadou, Just curious, are you going to continue to refine Empire of Sudoku, or are you going to move on to other apps, like LiberTweet or perhaps other ideas?

Try a little AppStore SEO

Using my AppStore SEO tool (still in beta) I see you only appear in the results page of one popular search phrase "amazing sudoku"... http://www.straply.com/app/android/guru-mobile/empire-of-sud...

But some other Sudoku apps appear in the results of hundreds of popular search phrases... http://www.straply.com/app/android/genina-com/sudoku-free/so...

Perhaps you could try expanding your description to include more of the popular phrases related to Sudoku?

But the real problem is what everyone else has been saying. Sudoku is just too crowded.

+1 for pipe welding

Don't worry... Guido will fix everything next month ;-)

Hi Pierre, nice blog post. Thanks for sharing your insights.

I was looking at your AppStore SEO. Like you mentioned, your position for "spelling" has dropped a lot. But there are other phrases where your positions are rising nicely...

For "crossword game for kids" you've gone from 10th to 7th in the past few weeks.

http://www.straply.com/app/apple/l-escapadou/montessori-cros...

And your Android version has a few phrases moving up too...

For the phrase "kids words" you've risen 6 places, from 23rd to 17th. I know 17th isn't awesome, but that's a fairly popular search phrase, so at least you're moving in the right direction.

http://www.straply.com/app/android/l-escapadou/montessori-wo...

I added AirPush to one of my free apps, and triggered a firestorm of one-star reviews. After pushing an update that removed AirPush, several users actually took the time to go back and revise their one-star review up to 5 stars.

Never underestimate the passion app users have about ads. I suppose a lot of us devs have learned this lesson the hard way.

I was going to launch something similar http://www.appstoretools.com as a fun little side project this weekend... But if Chomp is worth $50M, maybe "side project" is not the right way to think of it?

A little off topic, but I'm thinking of using CloudFlare's "Easiest SSL Ever"... Is anyone here using it?

http://blog.cloudflare.com/easiest-ssl-ever-now-included-aut...

I second the suggestion for StartupWeekend. You can come and go as you please, so if you're not digging the vibe, you can split. Plus, even if you stay for the entire time, you've only invested one single weekend.

If you don't want to wait for the event to hit your hometown again, attend one in a nearby city.

Also, I'd go become a member of a co-working office space and hang out there and mix and mingle. Startup folks and the nicest and most-helpful I've ever met.