On 5/30/2011 8:13 PM, TreKing wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Seni Sangrujee <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Have them buy it through the Market and then paypal them the $3. > > > It is beyond sad that this is the most effective way to deal with > gifting / promos / freebies.
I'm imagining a middleware solution that allows you to drop in a "product upgrade" that would allow a free version to be upgraded based on a key code. Each code could unlock your "premium" version. Wouldn't be that hard, but I know not everyone has the skills (or interest) to do both the client and server side. I'm actually working on similar functionality for my current app, so I'll already have a lot of the groundwork done. An ad company is telling me they're seeing $300-$700 eCPMs on their new offer wall service, and while I'm not ready to believe I'll see those results, those numbers are compelling enough to spend a few days integrating their solution and setting up a server to talk to it. Once I'm there, it wouldn't be hard to add things like "unlock codes" that you can enter into the app that the server can verify. If anyone is interested in such a thing once I have a solution working, let me know. Of course with my luck I'd have it ready to ship about the time Google offers similar functionality in the Market. Ahh well. Tim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
