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Marketing’s a Bitch: Lessons from the App Store

Posted on June 26, 2012 by alec
After months of obscurity, Sol: Sun Clock rose to #11 on the Weather charts the night of the solstice, and the next morning, when Apps Gone Free went live, it quickly rose to #2. Downloads went from around 10 a day (paid) to the peak of 21,042 in one day. That is an increase of over 2000%! Over a period of three days, Sol topped 30K downloads.
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Sol: Sun Clock — official trailer

Posted on April 30, 2012 by alec

Kudos to Josh Warren, co-designer of Sol:Sun Clock, for producing this excellent 60-second trailer introducing our new app for iPhone and iPad, now available in the App Store.

Sol: Sun Clock from jjnww on Vimeo.

I’m hoping …

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Sol: Sun Clock is now available for iPad

Posted on April 17, 2012 by alec

The latest update to Sol: Sun Clock, the personal daylight utility and alarm clock for iPhone, now makes use of the new iPad’s hi-res screen.

As a developer, I was happy that 98% of Sol:Sun Clock’s codebase had to be …

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Why I made Sol: Sun Clock

Posted on January 16, 2012 by alec

We’ve been working on this one for months and I’m happy to announce that Sol: Sun Clock, our lastest iPhone app, is now available in Apple’s App Store.

It lets you look at the day’s sunlight times, quickly …

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iSnow in N.O.

Posted on December 11, 2008 by alec
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