John Casasanta of taptaptap published his sales data and discussed it on the taptaptap blog, and later his final monthly numbers. Well, I thought I’d share the results for a much more obscure app of substantially less volume. I did no advertising, and my app has a very specific appeal. But still, I also thought you might be curious what the sum total of information that Apple gives you about sales. I imported it into Google Apps and removed empty columns and ones identifying id #, and published the stats for the first week of ChessClock sales here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pHdAmu_7dr_Nkd7OUMcrLJw

I’d like to make a pretty stacked bar chart showing daily volume by country, but haven’t sufficiently figured out the charting function of Google Apps.

It’s worth noting that from 8/4/2008 through 8/12/2008 I was the only chess clock available on the iTunes Store. On 8/13/2008 a copycat developer posted their app for $0.99. It seems to have made a noticable impact but didn’t completely decimate my sales. I guess when you’re only talking about the amount of money it takes to buy a latte, folks are willing to try a couple of apps. (Seriously, folks, stop posting how a $1 or $3 app is “too expensive”! Go write it yourself if you’re going to complain about that.)