Introducing My Productivity App: TaDone!

My newest app is just about ready for release. This is the quickest turnaround I’ve managed to achieve. It had taken just over 3 weeks from the first line of code until now. I’ve been using the app consistently for most of that time and have found it useful.

The app is based on an idea I had years ago that I found useful. Instead of writing to do lists, I would instead write down tasks as I finished them. For me, this was far more motivating. I still did the standard lists of things to finish occasionally, but I kept recording things as I did them. It allowed me to look back at my days and see just what I had done. This is chores around the house, or something fun like hanging out with a friend. For me, both were important to track. You had a few hours in a day. Anything you did would take part of that time. It also stopped me from doing absolutely nothing for days on end. When you looked at the list, you would see what you had done over the last several days. It felt better to at least do the same number of things or even more.

So, here is a look at what the app looks like now.

It has been useful for me over the last few weeks. I can’t wait to see how it is received by the public. I hope to release it in the next day or so.

Here is a link to my page about it: TaDone!

Boosting Visibility for Craft Pricing Pro

I figure I should give an update on my marketing journey. I have been working on making my Craft Pricing Pro app more visible. I’ve made some progress, but it has yet to lead to a noticeable increase in sales. So, I made a difficult decision – I’m going to stop selling the original version. The two have been competing against each other and that makes it harder market. Hopefully, that will help. It’s been a bit more difficult putting effort into letting people know that my app is out there. I’m decent at creating apps and giving them features that solve real world problems. I’m not good at letting people know that they exist.

At this point, while some progress has been made, I still have a long way to go.

If you are interested in checking out the app, here is the app:

Craft Pricing Pro
Craft Pricing Pro
Developer: Ducky Planet LLC
Price: $4.99+
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Crafting an Income

Over the last year I’ve been working on my Craft Pricing Pro app. The app is useful and the interface is clean and easy to understand. I’ve also added many features including some basic inventory and sales tracking. I don’t know how many people will use those features, but they are there and they do work.

But, writing the app – although it can be difficult – is the easy part. The truly difficult part is the actual marketing of the app. It’s nice to have an app finished and available for sale, but it doesn’t really pay the bills until people start to purchase it. That’s the block I’m currently running into. The app works well and the little bit of feedback I’ve been given has been positive. But, the problem is that it hasn’t really been found by the many people that would find it useful.

Yeah, I know it’s ironic that I wrote an app so people can make more money with their own projects, but I’m struggling to make money with my own. The accounting math isn’t hard for me. It’s the actual selling. How to get people to first of all take a look at the app, and then how can I convince them that it will help them make money? It will, I know it will. When I was selling more crafting items, the earlier version of this app did in fact help me make more money. It’s why I wrote it and it’s why I feel strongly about marketing it.

So, with this I guess my newest effort is to avoid adding features or starting new projects. But, instead work on creating interest and sales in the projects I currently have out there. Yeah, that’s scary and difficult, but here we go.

Craft Pricing Pro
Craft Pricing Pro
Developer: Ducky Planet LLC
Price: $4.99+
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