I'm sure everyone knows who I am. I have disbanded from
androidplayground. I am now looking to create a site that is fully
legit. I was wandering what as a developer you guys would be looking
for in an alternative market? From what I read there is a lot of
issues with encrypting and accessing APK's without actually having to
pay for them.
Three options I was thinking about that I would like some feedback on:
1. As a developer it would require you to provide a "trial app" and a
"full version". The trial application will be free to download, but
mind you it must not be a fully operational version unless you are
incorporating it with a auth key yourself. The consumer will use
Google Checkout to purchase App or Paypal, whichever the Developer
decides to provide. The Full application will be available for
download once payment has been received, which is within 15 minutes
with Google and instantly with Paypal. Hence there will be a member
log-in area which you would only have access to once you paid(similar
to androidplaygrounds old setup but not just anyone can gain access
anymore.) In this area you will have access to download the
application you paid for and non other. of course there are a few
things that I would change before site will be set up, but that comes
with the feedback. I'm pulling this out my ass right now.
2. The other option would make it non-downloadable and only sent out
through email. I know a lot of developers would think this not useful
but take it from someone who made money doing it this way...It's easy
and it works. But there may still need to be a trial version, not sure
on this yet. In this scenario you the developer will get 80% of the
payment for your application and the site will take 20%. there will be
an easy to use upload page set up for developers access only to upload
applications to site that will then be available within 24 hours for
download(most likely sooner) A lot more would go into this option.
This method is proven to work.
3. The last option I was thinking is to create a recurring payment for
applications to be downloaded. But this would take developers not
worrying about there application being pirated since it would require
at least a once a month update that people will want along side you
the developer receiving monthly payments for you applications being
available for download. This option would take a group of developers
not just one. I believe to start it off I can use a minimum of 5
developers. It would take nothing on there part but a constant update
at least 1 time monthly and the application uploaded to site and a
contractual agreement pretty much stating you give me authority to
distribute applications to users. Of course since they are paying
monthly they will come to site to update manually. This site would be
accessible from the phone and applications will be able to be
downloaded from the phone and payment can sent and received from the
phone regardless of what country. This way is also proven to work. We
had over 13000 hits in one month and of course I cannot disclose the
financing but a significant amount was made( not enough to dent the
developers pockets since most weren't updated versions). The more
developers included in this option the more customers we gain and the
more money you receive regardless of if you sell an application or
not.
On all options all developers will have there own page
set up to receive feedback and applications requests driven
specifically towards that developers talents and maybe even make it
possible to receive personal applications requests that you set the
price for.
Please feel free to leave feedback, I know a lot of you probably don't
like me but I do have a good business sense, I just started off on the
wrong side. Once any of these ideas starts to take off there will be a
free version of the site in the market to make it easy access from the
phone within a self contained application.
Thanks,
Nick
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