Appsleak

Web and SaaS

app store keyword research

SHOW HN2013

63points
20comments
#404of 1,739 in 2013
Top 24%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.42.

Execution: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Interesting idea and tool

    From 2 comments
    • Thanks for the interesting tool. Perhaps a couple of examples (from the time of writing) of niches you've identified with it would be helpful to first-time visitors? I know…
      dredge on HN
    • Interesting. It's a bit like Market Samurai with app store search results thrown in. I would love to see it pull in sales and grossing rank figures but they're a little harder to…
      ja27 on HN

Objections

  • Site was down or showed closed

    From 4 comments
    • Page says ‘Closed’. Too bad, title piqued my interest.
      Samuel_Michon on HN
    • What happened? It just says "closed".
      jcomis on HN
    • You misspelled "competition" as "competiton". Also, the phrases don't really seem good, and seem to be based on unfiltered web searches, instead of app store searches or at least…
      rtucea on HN
    • Site's down.
      dshanahan on HN
  • Phrase results based on Google web searches, not app store searches

    From 2 comments
    • You misspelled "competition" as "competiton". Also, the phrases don't really seem good, and seem to be based on unfiltered web searches, instead of app store searches or at least…
      rtucea on HN
    • I think it depends on type of phrase, but yes some phrases will not seem good because it is still based on searches from Google
      wsieroci on HN
  • Data source for search counts unclear

    From 2 comments
    • Your sales page says: "We track over 400,000 searches representing almost 50,000,000 results. " Really? Where do you get this data? Apple is certainly not making it available…
      jscore on HN
    • Cool, reminds me of that google keywords finder. But how can we be sure about your numbers? From where do you get those?
      zerr on HN
  • Niche opportunity not obvious from results

    From 1 comment
    • Thanks for the interesting tool. Perhaps a couple of examples (from the time of writing) of niches you've identified with it would be helpful to first-time visitors? I know…
      dredge on HN

Requests

  • Show example niches on the homepage

    From 1 comment
    • Thanks for the interesting tool. Perhaps a couple of examples (from the time of writing) of niches you've identified with it would be helpful to first-time visitors? I know…
      dredge on HN
  • Add sales and grossing rank figures

    From 1 comment
    • Interesting. It's a bit like Market Samurai with app store search results thrown in. I would love to see it pull in sales and grossing rank figures but they're a little harder to…
      ja27 on HN

Questions

  • Where does the search and result data come from

    From 2 comments
    • Your sales page says: "We track over 400,000 searches representing almost 50,000,000 results. " Really? Where do you get this data? Apple is certainly not making it available…
      jscore on HN
    • Cool, reminds me of that google keywords finder. But how can we be sure about your numbers? From where do you get those?
      zerr on HN

Alternatives named

  • Market Samurai

    From 2 comments
    • Interesting. It's a bit like Market Samurai with app store search results thrown in. I would love to see it pull in sales and grossing rank figures but they're a little harder to…
      ja27 on HN
    • That was my conclusion as well. I'm working on a Market Samurai competitor, currently in pre-launch at: http://KeywordSear.ch I'm wondering how they got this data, I would love…
      jgmmo on HN
  • Google Keyword Tool

    From 1 comment
    • Cool, reminds me of that google keywords finder. But how can we be sure about your numbers? From where do you get those?
      zerr on HN
  • MobileDevHQ

    From 1 comment
    • I'm a founder and CEO at MobileDevHQ[1], a startup focused on App Store optimization. We have been doing this work for almost a year and a half now and have built powerful tools…
      iseff on HN

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