Sometimes you have to experience something to really learn a lesson. I heard before about the Hershey’s Kiss experiment and the vast difference between dirt cheap and free, but I had to see it with my own eyes.
Before Dindy was free it cost 0.80 USD and I had around one download per day for a little over a year. Now, after making it free, Dindy gets downloaded 50 times every day. So in one month it went up from 366 to 1924 downloads with 784 active installs (40%.) Dindy’s rating remains around the same (4.25 out of 5), which is good.
Users are offering good enhancements and I’m trying to keep them happy. In the past I refused to do reply-to-SMS in Dindy because Google removed SMS capturing and reading from the API in the first Android release and, for some strange reason, never brought it back. So while it’s still possible to read SMS messages programmatically there’s no official support and applications using it may break at any time. Now that Dindy is free I don’t mind adding it and the next update will probably have reply-to-SMS (the texter will get a message telling him/her to call in order to make the phone wake up from silent.)
I put up a donation button on Dindy’s website but so far I got no donations. I’m still considering a donation button inside the app.
I don’t think anybody has any reason to go to the site.
I prefer a donation button inside the app. :)
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I think I might start counting how many calls were “blocked” and then tell the user “Dindy already allowed you to sleep quietly 100 times. It must be worth a buck.” Also, I will have my face next to the link pleading like the latest Wikipedia campaign. I’m sure it’ll work :)
Thanks
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The donate from the app is a must!
Will be done… right after SMS replies, which turns out to be quite a challenge to define properly