The sales are staying fairly consistent at around $250/mo. Keep in mind the minimum exchange requirements I mentioned in my last post which mean I'm receiving much less money than this.
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Here are the only two deposits to my bank account. ^[1]
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129.10 + 240.80 = $369.90

This is over my informal commitment to make a V2 that is much higher quality once I reach 150 in profits from V1.

So, now I'm busy building a very large remote desktop suite. This time I will have a proper website with many features (eventually I will add an in-browser javascript based client as well! ).

Usage Stats

I want to find out if people are figuring out how to use the app successfully. If they are not, that is both bad for them and will lead to bad ratings later on.

I ran a quick query

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT account_id) as AccountsWithAnActiveComputer FROM computer WHERE account_id IN
(SELECT DISTINCT serial FROM account) AND remote_ip IS NOT NULL

AccountsWithAnActiveComputer: 17

Next a simpler query.

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT serial) as ActiveAccounts FROM account

ActiveAccounts: 57

The result is quite bad, 70% of users haven't used it once! Either my supposed to be super-simple installation process is too complicated or there is a serious bug in the code. Another possibility is people aren't reading the description closely and buying it for a Windows machine. I will address all three of these issues in V2. I have received 3 customer support emails asking how to install for Windows -- so that is a clear issue but I'm unsure what the percentage of users this accounts for.

Slippage Stats

There are 49 sales + 2 refunds = 51 legitimate apps.
The ActiveAccounts query tells us we have 57 unique iPhone serial numbers.
57 - 51 = 6 Slipped Apps.
Slippage: 12%^[2]

The correct term is intarweb millionaire .^[1]

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My iphone game is still making money, but it hasn't reached my goal of 2000 sales (half that). I made $185 this month, in August I'll get a cheque for about $300. 60% of that is mine to do whatever I want with.

Maybe, but I've seen people make more than 5 grand per day selling speakers out of a van doing nothing besides asking "HEY! Wanna buy a speaker?".

I'd have to say the problem with selling software is the corporate world which dominates most markets and very few niche players exist. I'm surprised minecraft is doing that well, I don't see much there but I guess people are willing to throw 15 bucks on something so be it.

Lag is an uncountable noun. I would not buy your software because the poor grammar in the description makes it look like it was outsourced to India.

Change it to "distracting lag" or "distracting periods of lag" and you might sell a few more.

that's nice, what else you did when you put the game for free (besides changing it on iTC) ?, what promotions did you tried ?

I like to try free for a day too..

Other promotions? Not too much apart from posting on touch arcade and giving away promos. Because the app store is so oversaturated I'm not willing to spend any money on advertising.

I should also say that I tried this with just about all my apps and afterwing 3d was the only one to make money after it's free day likely because it hit #15 free in France according to igamestats.com. The other two games beer machine and tube tennis both sold almost 0 copies the day following the release and got destroyed in the ratings. So beware.

You think thats bad? I had crash reports flooding in from jailbroken os users. Somehow I used a piece of API that triggers a crash only on jailbroken OS's. 1 stars flooded in from those people.

Same here. I've discerned its not the reviews that impress upon people, but the sheer amount (oh look at all the people who took a $1 risk on it, I suppose I can). Hence the free technique. AW3D is up to 44 ratings now I think.

BAF. Indeed you are right. After being so appauled at spending a month working on afterwing to make a few hundred dollars. I refuse to spend more than 2 days at at time on a new app and then wash my hands of it.

Obviously, My primary job pays me enough to make a living. The app thing is kind of that "hey if this blows up I can pay off my car but likely won't" idea. Like the other guy said, its like a lotto ticket in my pocket that pays me dividends.

My mindset is to make good games, because I enjoy doing it and the money attracts good help. I've made over $1500 on my first and only app, that's not too bad for a first. I don't make games in 1-2 days like Mike. Even the current game we're working on, which is nowhere near done, has been in the works for months. We're hoping it's a success, but if not, it sure as hell is going to kick ass.

I guess it runs out at midnight pacific time (Apple time). That would be... around 5-6pm in UK I think.

edit: Actually, I don't know how it works. It may just be 08-03 regardless of timezone.

Heh. 30MB? It's actually almost 80 . Thanks though.