If you want to build a product overseas and sell it here in the US, it has to be something unique and special. If you decide to make apps, you better have the best damn app idea there is and be the ONLY one who has it. It means you have to understand the landscape of the business you are in. Dollars and cents.ĭoes this mean the Appitalize On Your Idea concept doesn’t work? No it doesn’t mean that. The money coming in wasn’t enough to pay for the developers to keep the app going. Remember, when you sell an app you only get paid on it once, unless you have in-app purchases or some sort of subscription service. Because of that, the amount of sales SignMyPad was making was starting to drop. There have been 10-15 other PDF signature applications that have come along since SignMyPad was released. Features we had included had been changed causing a cataclysmic amount of work that was piling up. With OS changes happening so quickly, things within the app started to break. Since I never learned to code, I always relied on the skills of others to make the apps work. Not only that, from 2011 to 2015 there were 3 OS changes, and there have been 3 since the beginning of 2016 (I’m including the newly announced iOS 10)! So as you can see, the landscape changed. According to the same source Wikipedia article, as of Jthere were 1.4 million apps on the store. Many of them were dumb fart apps (trust me I went through all of them). In 2011, there were only 425,000 apps that were available. Let me explain.Īutriv launched in 2011 with SignMyPad – a wonderfully new app on the market landscape. Does this mean the concepts in Appitalize On Your Idea don’t work? Absolutely not. Autriv was the basis for me to write Appitalize On Your Idea. With the closing of Autriv back at the end of 2015, I’ve had time to think over what went wrong.
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