| First of congratulations on the app, it is fulfilling a real need. You have cracked the first problem of getting people to download + use +care about the app. I like the idea of doing the survey however from my experience (we did a paid for Google Customer survey) our users want more content and for price of free which wasn’t hugely useful. Personally I think you have three easy options: 1. Add some low level not too obtrusive adverts in (you will get a nice trickle of money in) From my own experience of putting adverts into a util app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teazel&hl=...) no-one minds at all. The key is to not go overboard. We have banners that don't refresh too often, disappear if they going to draw over a dice. The number of apps I see show full screen adverts at start up, every page transition etc - all very icky. 2. As others have said try and grow it and use it for Resume/CV building. My one reservation on this is make sure you actually try and capitalise on it. I’m reminded of friends staying in awful jobs due to the
training/experience and years later never really harvesting the rewards. 3. Use it to cross promote another app (either by yourself or sell the space). Getting an app to be downloaded is so hard now having this to kick start the next project is a great de-risker. I would go for option 1 or 3 depending on whether you have other apps in the pipeline. As an aside is this lightweight wrapping of a webapp model work for other providers? LinkedIn etc? |