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Resources from Appfigures
Company blog · appfigures.com/resources/aso · on HN as arielmbusinessdata
Resources from Appfigures is the company blog at appfigures.com, writing about business and data. Since 2009, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 57 times, most often “Show HN: Top iPhone/Android apps lists that update every hour”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Appfigures mainly for its app market data: top-app charts, SDK usage stats (such as Flutter and React Native share) and download and revenue estimates. Comments cite these pages, not the ASO guides.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Track app downloads and revenue, research competitors, find better keywords, and monitor market trends with one platform built for mobile app growth.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Top iPhone/Android apps lists that update every hour3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-11-21
- /top-sdks/development/all3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-04
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-16
- /top-sdks/development/apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-30
What Hacker News says?
1) There are plenty of paid apps: https://appfigures.com/top-apps/ios-app-store/united-states/... 2) Taking his argument in good faith, he also means "free" apps with microtransactions, because in both cases the same situation exists: The iOS App Store is too big a market to ignore. Which leads to the same problem, regardless of whether your app is paid or "free", that if Apple suddenly decides it doesn't like you,…
Comment linking /top-apps/ios-app-store/united-states/iphone/top-overall
on “Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason”Submitted Jitsi Meet, the open source Zoom alternative, was downloaded 1.4M times in March as a story · 74 points
HN discussionappFigures is looking for a full time javascript (AngularJS) developer in New York City. appFigures is the leading app store analytics and intelligence platform focusing on helping app developers make data-driven decisions instead of flying blind. My co founder (and brother) and I started the company to make great analytics affordable and accessible to developers of all sizes, from indie to Fortune 500. We've been a…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)”Submitted Hundreds of thousands find their voice in Parler – Downloads nearing 4M as a story · 25 points
HN discussionNot mentioned in the article but definitely the elephant in the room: The rise of TikTok streaming [1] TikTok doesn't focus on gamers, but attention is finite. TikTok surpassed Twitch a while ago in revenue and it's accelerated since then. TikTok + Youtube (very profitable) makes Twitch at best a flat third place. Not a great business to be in when ZIRP ends. > Nine years after Amazon’s acquisition of the company, t…
Comment linking /resources/insights/20210924/amp?f=4
on “Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff”Submitted Introducing the appFigures app for iPhone as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYes, but a quick look at attprompts.com will show you most apps that use pre-prompts do at least one thing that’s not allowed by the rules. I Worte about a few, including McDonald’s which uses misleading language and a popular game that shows a fake prompt altogether. https://appfigures.com/resources/this-week-in-apps/20210430#...
Comment linking /resources/this-week-in-apps/20210430
on “Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5”Submitted After dropping Apple App Store, Disney+'s revenue dropped by 16% and Hulu by 27% as a story · 8 points
HN discussionUltimately it’s hard to evaluate using a single simplistic app. It’s not a matter of setting up a better evaluation but rather real life. A different way to look at this is adoption, and flutter isn’t at all popular. I don’t believe that’s only a matter of visibility. React Native is the 5th and Xamarin is the 7th most used frameworks for iOS while flutter is 15th, and similarly among Android apps where it’s 10th. S…
Comment linking /top-sdks/development/all
on “Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment”Submitted Airbnb Downloads Recover to Pre-Covid Levels in the U.S. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShoelace is awesome! Also it is built with Stencil, which is a tool that generates web components from a development experience React and Angular devs would find familiar. One of the benefits of Stencil is that it can generate Angular, React, and Vue-specific bindings. This smooths over any issues React has in working with WC's and provides a first-class React experience. Stencil was built to power Ionic Framework w…
Comment linking /top-sdks/development/apps
on “The Failed Promise of Web Components”Submitted Quibi: Hollywood's $1.75B bet on short-form video streaming can't bit Netflix as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhy not just go all in and back react native? looks like they use it extensively already https://appfigures.com/resources/insights/microsoft-goes-all...
Comment linking /resources/insights/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-react-native
on “.NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI”Submitted This Week in Apps – Things are slowing down, a Zoom alternative, and more as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBased on ASO Flutter is less popular than Cordova and React Native: https://appfigures.com/top-sdks/development/all
Comment linking /top-sdks/development/all
on “Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK”Submitted Top SDKs Installed in iOS and Android Apps and Games as a story · 3 points
HN discussionway to go, pierre! if anyone is interested in the analytics he used, here's a shameless plug: http://www.appfigures.com
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on “How I've Made $200k in the iOS Education Market”Submitted Show HN: Top iPhone/Android apps lists that update every hour as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAccording to stats like this one and many others, Google AdMob has a much larger presence in terms of serving ads on mobile apps: https://appfigures.com/top-sdks/ads/all
Comment linking /top-sdks/ads/all
on “Meta stock price drops more than 20%”Submitted Statistics for iOS Developers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNew York, NY (full-time) appFigures http://www.appfigures.com If you're an app developer it's likely you already know us. We're a small, self-funded team creating the best tools for developers and researchers to analyze the app stores. We are growing at a rapid pace and are searching for: - A lead front end developer with expertise in js, css, html, and working knowledge of front end libraries such as Backbone.js an…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)”Submitted VPN Apps Save Millions from Censorship in Russia as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> [independant citation needed] Here you go. From America to Zimbabwe, have fun trying to find a country where X is not in the top three tier: https://appfigures.com/top-apps/ios-app-store/germany/iphone... > Are you so sure? In just a few days you come to that conclusion? So are you saying, that your currently unverifiable thing in the future ( has not had the time to take shape yet ) has to stand against the actua…
Comment linking /top-apps/ios-app-store/germany/iphone/news
on “What's Going on at the FBI?”Submitted ASO Teardown: What's Spotify Doing to Get Ahead on the App Store as a story · 2 points
HN discussionByte never really took off [1]. I’m not a user so I can’t tell if it’s the experience or the existence of TikTok... [1] https://appfigures.com/resources/insights/twia-20200807
Comment linking /resources/insights/twia-20200807
on “Twitter, TikTok Have Held Preliminary Talks About Possible Combination”Submitted App Store shows serious peculiarities this week as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> If you sell it for $5 on the App Store, you keep $3.5. Try $0. Look at the App Store charts. The 200 top grossing apps are ironically all "Free": https://appfigures.com/top-apps/ios-app-store/united-states/... This is the real problem, the crApp Store race to the bottom. Apple's cut was never really the problem. The cut is obscene, but only because the prices are already obscenely low. I'd be happy to give Apple 5…
Comment linking /top-apps/ios-app-store/united-states/iphone/top-overall
on “Apple Avoids Job Cuts Because It Didn’t Overhire Like Google and Amazon”Submitted Our plan to grow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor reference, Vuforia currently seems to be the most installed SDK on both iOS (53%) and Android (70%) apps, beating ARKit (45%) and ARCore (34%). Source: https://appfigures.com/top-sdks/ar_vr/all
Comment linking /top-sdks/ar_vr/all
on “AR Comparison Guide: ARCore vs. ARKit vs. Vuforia vs. AR Foundation”Submitted This is Where AI Shines (and Generates Millions) as a story · 1 points
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