[lscott3]

What catapulted (if anything) you to achieving so much success with tiny piano? Especially with getting to 6 million free downloads?

- Was it something that people naturally search for?

- What types of marketing/advertising did you do?

- Do any of the other apps help supplement income?

[ronyeh]

The first big jump I got was in March 2012, when I added iPad support (universal binary) and also translated the app store description to Chinese (钢琴). It turns out that people will search for their native word for piano! ;-)

Then it grew slowly over the next 8 months. I continued to add song packs and improve the app. I did some marketing on FB, https://www.facebook.com/tinypiano including a raffle where I gave away $50 iTunes GCs to generate more "likes."

In November, I also got a big bump due to Apple's iPad mini launch & piano commercial (Heart & Soul).

In December, I actually made about as much money as I made the rest of the year. Download #s were high, and AdMob/iAd eCPMs were also at their peak. It was a good month.

Relative to Tiny Piano, my 5 other apps are failures.... Collectively, they make about $50 a day. And that's probably because people who like Tiny Piano search for & download my other apps.

Here's an old blog post with some numbers: http://blog.squarepoet.com/post/35196629175/tiny-piano-sales... While my daily revenue is now below the $3K I cited in my post... it's still good enough to pay me an engineering salary every month.

[lscott3]

Nice! I am gonna check out the post now. It excites me to hear stories like yours - it installs a little hope in all of us :p.