Baby Maker iPhone Application – One Week Later

A week ago, I announced that a new iPhone app my friend and I created was finally approved and on sale in iTunes. I’m sure you’re probably interested in knowing how it’s doing so far.

After just one week in the app store, Baby Maker has done really well for us. To give you something to compare it to, I’ll share some numbers from our first application, iPopit!

As I said before, iPopit! didn’t do as well as we had hoped. In 2 whole months, it has earned us about $395.73. We put out a “lite” version with advertisements that has earned us $547.06, for a total of $942.79 – an average of about $15.71 per day.

Baby Maker, which has been out for only a week now, has earned us a total of $1287.70 - an average of about $184.00 per day. (All of these numbers have already taken into account Apple’s commission of 30%). Now we’re getting somewhere!

Things to Think About

If you ever plan on getting into the iPhone app business someday, here are some things to think about before you do:

Do “One-Trick” Ponies Work?

When I announced Baby Maker was on sale last week, I received a few comments from people who knew this app would do way better than iPopit, because iPopit was just a “one-trick pony”, while Baby Maker could actually produce an infinite amount of results.

My response to that is that one-trick ponies can be successful. Just think of iBeer (the app where it looks like there’s a beer in your phone. You can “tip your mug” and it looks like you’re really drinking it). I’m sure that one has earned over 6-figures. But, in order for a “one-trick pony to be successful”, it has to be really good, and really creative.

iPopit was clearly not that good.

Marketing and Advertisements are Important

You can’t just make an app and just hope it takes off. You have to market and and advertise to give yourself a chance to reach as many people as possible. We decided to reach out and purchase some ad space for Baby Maker which we did not do for iPopit. I contacted a person at AppVee.com (an iPhone app review website), to ask about some of their advertising opportunities. We ended up paying $199.00 for a 30-day ad that is shown in their free iphone app, which provides helpful reviews for iPhone apps on people’s iPhones.

In just 7 days, that ad has been clicked about 1100 times!

We must be doing something right, because all of our efforts has gotten us some reviews on app review websites which didn’t really happen with iPopit. Here are some links in case you’re interested:

MobileTechAddicts Review

AppCraver Review

All in All

Probably the biggest reason why Baby Maker has been more successful, and is right now at the #26 position in “Top Paid Apps” in the photography category in the app store, is because it’s just a better, more fun application.

Thank you all for being interested in our iPhone app journey! As far as iPhone apps and how it relates to passive income, you can’t really just “set it and forget it”. It takes a lot more work than just the creation of the app itself, but there is always the potential to earn big bucks if you get it right.

p.s. Some EXCELLENT conversations going on in my last post from a couple of days ago, Starting the Home Buying Process (in Today’s Economy). I’m definitely keeping a close eye on all of your opinions. Thank you so much for helping me understand things a little better!

Posted on : June 29th, 2009

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2. iPhone Application Development – Costs and Thoughts
3. All Systems Go – Our iPhone App is Finally on Sale
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