Ask HN: Help? Breaking into the App Store top 100.
I thought I would never do this. But here I am so I'm just going to get it out there. Last year I had a baby and quit my awesome job as a graphic designer for the Blizzard web team largely because I wasn't making enough money to keep living in Southern California if my wife was going to be able to stay at home with our newborn. We moved to Las Vegas and now live with my wife's father. I spent most of the past year starting Falcon Empire and making my first iPhone game, Beat Boxes, which I finally released late last year. Of course, nobody noticed. Despite what you're reading here, I'm terrible at self promotion. In desperation and ready to give up on my dream and go apply for a job at McDonald's for a while, I started giving my game away for free. I figured that way at least some people would get to play it and I won't simply have wasted the last year of my life. I thought maybe a couple
Why it failed
I thought I would never do this. But here I am so I'm just going to get it out there. Last year I had a baby and quit my awesome job as a graphic designer for the Blizzard web team largely because I wasn't making enough money to keep living in Southern California if my wife was g
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- alanfalcon
- Ended
- 2012
- Source
- hackernews