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Apptopia
Company blog · blog.apptopia.comdatabusiness
Apptopia is the company blog at blog.apptopia.com, writing about data and business. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Apptopia blog posts on mobile app design, skeuomorphism, and Amazon Appstore sales. Comments mostly cite or mention the posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Here is a unique take on skeuomorphism - It mentions that if Apple doesn't eventually steer away, younger users may feel a disconnection with iOS... http://blog.apptopia.com/discussing-mobile-design-pt-1-apple... Thoughts?
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on “What skeuomorphism is (and isn't)”Submitted Free Source Code Available To Download as a story · 75 points
HN discussionI can use Google, and found this [1] article claiming over 4 million DAUs for Calm in June of 2020, with trendlines going up and to the right. So the lower bound of your estimate gives us ~200,000 people who would be adversely affected. Looking through negative reviews, it's all complaints about pricing and paywalls. The same is true for Headspace, the second biggest app in this space (I don't have DAUs for them, bu…
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on “Ten years of trying to meditate”Submitted Why Apple is Trying to Kill NFC as a story · 14 points
HN discussionScotty - thank so much for the shout out man, this is Jonathan, I am the founder of Apptopia. To help add some value to the convo: We actually partner with AppBusinessBrokers - good guys. They handle the $200,000+ spectrum while we really specialize in the $1,000-$150,000 range. SellMyApplication is unfortunately more of a marketing site and lack the real data/stats and the ability to help with the actual transfer.…
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on “Ask HN: How do I sell my iOS app?”Submitted How To Prep for the App Store Freeze this Holiday Season as a story · 11 points
HN discussionYou are talking about kindle fire not the e-ink kindle, right? Kindle fire users do buy apps. Some articles you might can take a look: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/25/reports-detail-amazon-appst... http://blog.apptopia.com/amazon_appstore/
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on “Ask HN: Is it worth to develop Android apps for Amazon's Kindle?”Submitted Revenue Effect of Putting your App on Sale as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4 of the 5 most downloaded apps in the US are published by Chinese companies as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The App Developer's Guide to In-App Purchases as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 6 Reasons Developers Sell their Mobile Apps as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to get your app featured on the App Store as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Want to sell your app? Use analytics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gary Vaynerchuck Talks Apps & Mobile With Apptopia Founder as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why developers sell their mobile apps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned from Starting Apptopia (at 26 yr old) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uncover Details on Any App Right from Google Chrome as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Valuing mobile app portfolios as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entire iOS app portfolio acquired for $200,000 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted App Investment Secrets I Learned from My Realtor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 5 Musts of Metadata as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mobile Apps Make Less than $500 a month? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IOS Human Interface Guidelines: Where to Begin? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bird passes Lime as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apptopia Data Now in Slack for Free as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Getting Featured in the New App Store Could Mean for You as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When You Monetize Your Apps Matters as Much As How as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Huge Skill Gap in Tech = Huger Opportunity for Mobile Devs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IOS6 App Store: What's the same & what changed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Receive In-App Feedback, Ratings, & Reviews as a story · 1 points
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