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#41

Hi guys - We do our very best to pick the ‘App of the Week’ based on uniqueness, quality, graphics and all the other good stuff that makes for impressive content. Not surprisingly, it’s not uncommon that the apps we love are the same apps that are successful in rankings, downloads and user ratings. We don’t pick these apps *because* they are successful, rather we use the same criteria as most users, reviewers etc. when making a decision to download.

Many of the recent App of the Week winners have been made by small indie devs (you can look through them here: http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/topics/app-of-the-week/). We want to help out all Corona developers as much as possible, and we’re always open to your ideas on how to improve in this area.

Regarding the showcase - I’m in full agreement that it is in need of a serious makeover. We plan to revamp the showcase soon, to make it better organized and more user-friendly.

That being said, we’re always open to feedback and suggestions. If you have concerns, compliments, suggestions, etc. please shoot me an email and I’d love to discuss: innaATcoronalabs.com.

Thanks!
Inna
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#42

Feedback #1, Inna needs a smaller avatar picture. [import]uid: 147305 topic_id: 30576 reply_id: 122942[/import]

#43

We all need smaller avatar pictures. [import]uid: 14218 topic_id: 30576 reply_id: 122946[/import]

#44

Inna: Are you citing coincidence?

It’s plausible. Sometimes when you hear a small or local story and think “wow, this is really great”, it turns out to be. Then when it becomes popular, you feel like you knew about it before it was cool. So maybe you’re saying that often times Corona knows an app is cool before it’s popular? =)

Either way, there are a lot of apps in your showcase; and I’d like to think that there is enough probability that, every so often, Corona Labs would cover a neat app that never makes it big. I haven’t noticed that happen, but following what you’ve said, statistically it should. That is, unless the apps you cover are already popular before you cover them.

And about the Showcase… I don’t have anything solid to offer at the moment, but I think people would basically like it to be somewhat like a YouTube video post. The poster (developer) can decide if there are comments, thumbs up/down, etc. Then of course you’d need social media integration… Honestly I think if you copied YouTube (or something like it) you’d be appealing to a majority.

There are some other fun ideas in this thread as well. =) [import]uid: 60144 topic_id: 30576 reply_id: 122948[/import]

#45

“Feedback #1, Inna needs a smaller avatar picture.”

budershank wins the internet today! :slight_smile:

Jay
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#46

Ha! Ok guys, all this talk motivated me to change my avatar. Hope it’s more acceptable!

@Ilustrationism - Alas, no. I only wish that I had magical premonitions about the future success of Corona buit apps. :slight_smile: You are correct though, there are a lot of great apps in the showcase and we do look through each one before making a decision on App of the Week. In fact, most of the recently reviewed apps didn’t have super impressive rankings but we loved them, and thought they were worthy of App of the Week (The Stolen Stars, Aliens Abducted, Lingo Slingo etc… the list goes on!)

Also, we’ll keep in mind your showcase suggestions. No promises on specifics, but we are definitely planning to improve it.

Have a great weekend all!
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#47

What about my idea to to a Tweet/Facebook an App of the Day? No big write ups., just link to the showcase page and be done. [import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 30576 reply_id: 123076[/import]

#48

Hi Rob - I’m very sorry about the delay. About your idea on App of the Day - here are my thoughts:

  1. We don’t always have an app that we’d like to highlight each day from the showcase.
  2. That being said, we make a point to constantly tweet about apps that have been submitted to the showcase, that we think look neat. If you check out our Twitter feed, we commonly retweet posts about awesome apps and alert our followers to apps that we find particularly unique, high quality etc.
  3. We don’t have the bandwidth to do this on a daily basis, so it’s not very sustainable.

Of course, it’s impossible for us to highlight each and every great app built with Corona, but I think that revamping the showcase will be the first step in featuring more high caliber apps. If you check our Apps f the Week, I think you’ll see that we make a concerted effort to highlight a wide variety of content, based on uniqueness, graphics, overall quality and the like.

Thanks,
Inna [import]uid: 140864 topic_id: 30576 reply_id: 124406[/import]

#49

Hi Rob - I’m very sorry about the delay. About your idea on App of the Day - here are my thoughts:

  1. We don’t always have an app that we’d like to highlight each day from the showcase.
  2. That being said, we make a point to constantly tweet about apps that have been submitted to the showcase, that we think look neat. If you check out our Twitter feed, we commonly retweet posts about awesome apps and alert our followers to apps that we find particularly unique, high quality etc.
  3. We don’t have the bandwidth to do this on a daily basis, so it’s not very sustainable.

Of course, it’s impossible for us to highlight each and every great app built with Corona, but I think that revamping the showcase will be the first step in featuring more high caliber apps. If you check our Apps f the Week, I think you’ll see that we make a concerted effort to highlight a wide variety of content, based on uniqueness, graphics, overall quality and the like.

Thanks,
Inna [import]uid: 140864 topic_id: 30576 reply_id: 124406[/import]