We launched our first app,'The Gentlemen's Alarm Clock', not doing so hot
We launched our first app, 'The Gentlemen's Alarm Clock' and it is not doing so hot. The app is an alarm clock featuring sexy women's voices engineered in a way to make waking up a bit more pleasant.<p>We have poured thousands into Facebook ads(pay per install) and it just isn't bringing in more money than we spend. We recently switched from free to 99 cents on iOS and our profit margin did not improve. The app is still free on Android due to their policies. I've reached out to about ~50 online magazines and blogs trying to get featured but the best I got baack was an email with a price quote over 10k.<p>Any insight or ideas on how we can go from red to black would be appreciated. Thanks<p>www.gentlemensalarm.com
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 33.2 ms ] threadHas it not occurred to you that no straight male who can get a date is ever going to use this? It's virtually guaranteed to annoy a gentleman's lady friend and ruin breakfast. The only market for this is adolescent boys. Maybe you could get it featured in something like Maxim magazine, but otherwise your audience is limited.
Ironically, there's probably a larger market for this sort of thing among women who would enjoy a suave male voice with an interesting accent.
>women who would enjoy a suave male voice with an interesting accent.
The irony is so thick I can spread it on my toast. Shame on you.
But I'm not saying that women are more predisposed to like this sort of thing than men; rather, that men are less likely to care about a woman's use of such an app than the reverse. Everyone likes accents, I think you can find some in-depth analysis on OKcupid's stats blog.
Personally, I'd like an app that provides me with a wake-up call with stuff I'm interested in (i.e. top news, weather, etc).