Author Archives: Ouriel

Beyond the Hype: App Discovery and App promotion need better quality standards

This blog post was originally published on TheNextWeb All eyes on App discovery: suddenly, because of what happened to a single app promotion company (ref. appgratis), the background noise indicates that everyone is now concerned about the entire field of app discovery: what it means and how it should work. It is surprising that this [...]

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Trouble in app discovery land? What about Appsfire?

With all the commotion and confusion (cf. the appgratis case, Appshopper last year), we wanted to reiterate and clarify how Appsfire works. Some have raised legitimate questions about us and our future, while others will also start imagining things. First and foremost, let’s review what Appsfire is all about: The Appsfire app is a non-paid [...]

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Deals and Fake Deals

Real life scenario You receive a flyer at home with a special discount on Jack Daniels at your favorite store. 50% off today. You arrive at the store. You look at the shelf price of your upcoming alcoholic beverage. It displays the 50% off sticker. Cool!     Hmm…Wait. You’re looking closer and the actual [...]

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Introducing “App for Cash”, a new standard of App Discovery

“Freemium is not what it used to be” “How can i pay my Palo Alto rent, only with a Free app” “It’s just too hard to make money today” “App Discovery just sucks. Appsfire, Please do something!..” Those are some private quotes we’ve been collecting from App Developers for the past 3 years. Developers need [...]

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Unpaid app discovery

We wanted to address a topic we re often asked about, but that is not very well understood in our industry. App discovery is a jungle but it does not mean every single service that labels itself “app discovery” operates by the same rules. You can find two categories of discovery services: paid discovery services [...]

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Mailbox – the case of a reservation system

Mailbox is quite unique in the App landscape. They managed to get massive traction (top 5 in many countries including USA) in the App store without have a product that is actually available to most users (and obviously without spending a dime in marketing) Mailbox is promising to revolutionise the way we’ll use email (Gmail [...]

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Growth

2012 has been a tremendous year at Appsfire and we wanted to share some key figures with you: 9 million downloads of our App (mostly on iOS) 50,000 ratings in the App store  across all stores (with an average of 5 stars in many stores like USA), and lots lots lots of super Reviews / Videos [...]

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January 2013: Here is a special deal for indie developers you can’t miss

You are an indie mobile app developer and you want your new baby to grow but don’t have much money? This post is for you With the new year 2013, Appsfire has grown immensely (more on that in a few days). We’d like to celebrate this beginning of the year with a very special deal [...]

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Happy 2013

We can’t wait to share what we’ve prepared for next year

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2013 non predictions

What extraordinary things will happen in the app ecosystem in 2013 ? nothing. our 2012 predictions were mostly OK.     Apple will still dominate by far the app ecosystem in terms of payout. Apple will pass 1m live apps in the App store and will announce it at WWDC WWDC tickets will sell out [...]

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