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Pricing Your App
Figuring out how much to charge for your app is a balancing act.
On one hand you want to make your product as accessible as possible. Going with a free or $0.99 price tag you’ll effectively ensure exposure to a broader audience and increase your volume of sales. More people will be inclined to try out your product, and you’ll in turn harvest more feedback & reviews.
On the other...
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To StatusBar or not to StatusBar?
We’ve had some pretty neat responses and considerations regarding Thermo - It’s great to see people invested in this and fun to share the process. Robin Raszka from Tapmates tweeted:
@robocat Hint: remove the StatusBar cause it’s useless here and it damages the look and feel. (like Camera+)
He’s referring to the Black opaque status bar i included in the screenshot here....
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Why Thermo isn't being build into Outside
I’ve already had a few people suggest this, and i understand the sentiment, but here’s why it won’t be part of Outside. First of all Outside already has a pretty neat way of showing todays temperature - in fact Outside is build around that central piece of information smack in the middle of every screen. Having a separate screen for something like this would be kinda redundant....
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“The unnamed thermometer app now has a name: Thermo”
– We asked around on twitter and got a lot of great name suggestions for the Thermometer app we’re toying with. When choosing a name for your app, you need to make sure it’s something memorable and easy to pitch. You also have to take competition and name squatters on the app store into...
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Yesterday's Temperature
Asking around and researching features for the unnamed temperature app, something that kept coming up was the idea of being able to see yesterdays temperature.
As Neven Mrgan articulated expertly in a rant on the native OS X weather app:
“…And it would make room for a feature I’d really like to see in every weather widget, on the phone or TV or wherever: yesterday’s weather. The...
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Introducing the Development Stream
In an attempt at sharing some of the work and upping the transparency over at robocat we’ve set up this tumblelog. The hope is that we’ll be able to post stuff from ongoing developments, ideas and snippets of interest to give you a glimpse of the life of a small upstart working on products they love.