[hermitcrab]

Last time I looked the MS Store was just a sad catalogue of shovelware. Has it improved?

[unleaded]

Depends how long ago that was. When it first came out you could only upload UWP apps and hardly anyone used it, in recent years they've relaxed it a lot (you can just publish EXEs and MSIs now, fees reduced/abolished) and I see a lot more open-source projects using it now.

[hermitcrab]

I just had a look, for the first time in quite a few years. It does look a lot less dreadful than it did. There seems to be very little software for sale that is >$20 though.

[Gareth321]

Yes but it's free and easy to link customers there. They don't have to interact with the store outside of your product's listing.

[fassssst]

You can also link directly to a web installer so customers don’t even have to ever see the Store app. The Store provides you a web link for a tiny exe installer, like this: https://developers.openai.com/codex/app/windows

[hermitcrab]

I would be interested to find out a bit more about your experience with the MS App store. Do you get much traffic? Does it convert? What price range is your product? Is it a game or utlity?