Adjustable time delay. Many more localizations. Fix all known bugs.

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.)

Version 1.1 with the changes listed in the last post, as well as not resetting time on analog/digital switch, has been submitted to Apple.

It’s getting harder to find the good apps among the hundreds being added to the iPhone App Store. Word of mouth, reviews, and sites like http://iphone.iusethis.com/ (Sort of a Digg for iphone apps) help users find the good stuff. To that end, if you like ChessClock, I’d appreciate it if you could vote for it on the I Use This site.