3 days in the marketplace

The submission to the marketplace was actually very easy and within less than 24 hours my app was in the marketplace, that was a great start. Unfortunately the rest of the marketplace experience hasn’t been great for me an my app. First I found out that I can’t sell my app because of my immigrant status. But then the marketplace doesn’t even give you any indication of how many people use or download your app. So basically there is no way for me to see if people actually use it. Very frustrating.

I read on some developer forums that there are some temporary solutions until 2011, when Microsoft plans to release official statistics for developers of Windows Phone apps. But I don’t really want to spent time to implement some temporary software in my app to track downloads and usage….

On the other hand it’s good to see the first feedback. There are already some ratings on my app. Also I accidentally rated my app myself, and I can’t find a way to delete my rating

Img is currently 26th “top selling” app in the news and weather category – but again, I have no clue what that means: 50 or 5000 downloads??

Thanks for everybody’s feedback. And special thanks to SmartKeitai and MobilityDigest for featuring my app on their blogs.

first release

I started to work on this app about 4 weeks ago and I think it’s ready for the public now. So you can download it from the marketplace since yesterday. I really hope some people will notice. If I get some good feedback I might continue improving the app. Right now the functionality is pretty limited  (and I already know about some bugs), but its good enough for what I myself need. …yes, I am my first and most important customer (right now). I can’t even sell the app because of my visa status!

It’s been fun to work with the Windows Phone dev-tools and especially with Expressions Blend. I am a designer so I don’t really like code. I still love node based visual programming languages much better. But with Blend its actually pretty easy to get a nice layout running.