Awkward Coder

A previous post detailed how FINDaPAD was selected for the Nokia WP7 April ad campaign in the UK - more info can be found  here . For us the ad campaign has been very successful, we've doubled our total number of downloads in a month, okay we didn't have many in the first place but doubling the number of ' units sold ' in a month always sound good! The ad campaign ran for 4 weeks and started on or around the 1st of April. Before the campaign started we'd only had approximately 600 hundred downloads with the previous month showing 87 downloads: As I said the campaign had the affect of doubling our total number of downloads to approximately 1400: Interestingly the above graph has two peaks, the second is explained away as a patch release we did (2.1) -  a few bug fixes. The interesting factor about the second peak is there are about 200 users who had downloaded the update from the marketplace in the subsequent week. Does this figure represen...

I was chatting with my good friend Denis ( @dhaman ) about user feedback for the apps he's produced for the iPhone & droid app stores and just like the WP7 app store they all fall short in supporting your app once released out into the wild. I was also reading the final post in the ' 31 days of mango... ' by  @jeffblankenburg  and he talks about promoting your app, he mentions the great work Nick ( @spacescape ) did originally for FINDaPAD  in producing a template you can use to provide a bespoke site for WP7 app - Nick pushed this out to codeplex here . Denis pointed out he started to explicitly put a feedback mechanism in the app blurb, ideally at the top. Initially I thought I don't need this, we've got http://findapad.biz with feedback via uservoice , but then I realised there isn't any way for a user viewing FINDaPAD in the app store to get in touch with us. This is a piece of functionality that should be in the app store and I don't mean a foru...