Trying to Fix App Discovery Over the past few months we’ve been working on a new app called AppFinder to help solve problems with app discovery on the App Store. We were inspired by The Broken App Store article posted by the creators of the successful Twindr app and decided to take a hiatus from our work on the StartupApp.info… Read more →
AppFinder
AppFinder - Private Beta Now Open
Over the past week we’ve been working through the Test Flight approval process for AppFinder. We had to make some tweaks to AppFinder to receive approval and now we’re happy to let you know that it has been approved for beta testing! Initially AppFinder was rejected due to App Store Review Guideline 2.26 (full details available here) which has specific rules around… Read more →
Our Experience Using Betalist.com for AppFinder
If you’re not familiar with Betalist and you’re in the startup space you should definitely check it out. Betalist is a site that features ‘new’ startups that have not launched yet and it’s a great way to get early adopters and beta users to test and validate your startup idea before launching. We had heard positive things about Betalist from others in… Read more →
AppFinder App Coming Soon - Fixing App Discovery
Recently we wrote about the disjointed app discovery process and the large influence that reviews have in the success or failure of your app. This post was inspired by the Twindr team’s article on Medium regarding how broken the app discovery process is and this Forbes article that goes into detail about the difficulties independent app developers have getting their apps discovered. In the current… Read more →