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StzaOP•

Drama on the internet? This dev seems to have made a lackluster IOS app and charges premium pricing for his app, only to call it quits later because no one is buying is app.

Now it seems he is trying to pin his own failures on someone else.

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pacoo2454•

regardless of what happened between the dev and discchord, if you are gonna leave the app store because your $50 app isnt selling as much as you would like, then gtfo! I recently dropped my 4.99 app to 2.99 and saw more than double my sales. people these days!

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sp00kyd00m•

...$50?? wtf was this app?

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kermhttps://soundcloud.com/kerm/•

It's actually multiple apps. They are used to edit MIDI Sysex information on older hardware synths.

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Discchord•

Yea, they were really specialized, but infinitely handy for the people who have those old hardware synths.

$30-50 for each though...

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Wordshark•

I don't get it. If your $50 app isn't selling, and you're basically calling it quits anyway, why not try dropping it to 10% and see if you can squeeze a bit more money out of it? And who knows, maybe it will take off at the new price and your enterprise will revive. I mean, if you're done anyway, why not cash out? All gain, no downside that I can see.

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meohmy13•

That's what I don't get either. Maybe he genuinely thinks his app is worth $50 and he doesn't want to "sell himself short" by cutting the price. That's a reasonable position, and a lot of developers are against the "$5 is expensive" race-to-the-bottom pricing on the app store.

But that said, with an app on the app store, you don't have a any per-unit cost beyond what you spent to code it up. For most independent developers that means the cost of the developer license and then just time. That's all a sunk cost, and since there's no per-unit cost you have to hit, there's literally nothing to lose. You can't "take a loss" on selling the apps, it just may take you forever to break even.

PLUS you've already paid for the developer license for its duration, so you have nothing to lose by spending however much time you have until it expires trying different price points and seeing if sales take off. If it doesn't take off, let it go. But maybe it will start to sell...you can't lose any more time/money than you already lost, but you could very possibly make some decent money, so why not try?

I'm sure this guy is upset because he's giving up on this project that he spent countless hours working on. Maybe there's other stuff going on in his life, too. "I know the feel, bro."

But not bothering to drop the price at least until your license runs out? That's just leaving money right on the table.

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