Mike Katz
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, so there are two.
One of them is called Gem Spinner, which is sort of a
you know, in the match three bejeweled candy crush family, but with a pretty interesting twist.
So I was pretty proud of that.
It got featured on the front page of the app store, actually back in the day when, you know, the app store opened in 2009, the Apple app store.
And I think it was that year or early 2010 where we got featured on the, on the front page.
And how many plays or downloads?
Um,
let's see, I think we were charging a dollar, a dollar per day at that point.
And I remember it was about 7,000 in a day in that day.
It's called quote unquote.
And so it's like a crossword puzzle where you get a bunch of clues, but the answers to the clues are found inside of a famous quotation.
Like an example would be Mark Twain has a quote, familiarity breeds contempt and children.
Okay, so familiar.
So then we would take parts of those words and create a set of crossword clues where you pick out the parts of the answers in the thing.
So all the answers are sitting there in front of you, but you have to figure out where in the quote, the different segments of the words.
That was probably about 2013, 2014.
And that one had really great success on the Amazon website.
app store they used it as a free app of the day multiple times and so how many downloads did you get via amazon um i think it was about uh uh three thousand a day when it was featured on the on the front page free or paid it was all free because that was that was part of their deal that they would feature your app but it is free for that day so but it was it was a good publicity
Well, I mean, at the base level, I guess programming is programming.