What Makes a Great Mobile App?
I got a review recently on You Doodle where a user was frustrated that picking a picture frame overwrote a Chibi that they had been working on for several hours. Currently in You Doodle if you pick a picture frame, …
Playing around with Apple’s App Store Data and NoSQL Databases and Some Random Fun Facts
I’ve been playing around with Apple’s App Store Data (Enterprise Feed) and initially tried dumping it into RavenDB. I like the idea of a Lucene powered NoSQL database but after about 5 hours I decided to punt on RavenDB for …
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Props to Amazon Customer Service
On February 1st I ordered a Crucial M4 512 GB solid state drive from Amazon Warehouse Deals. The drive arrived a couple days later and sat in my office for two months unopened. Tonight I decided I needed to get …
What not to do in Customer Service (Flickr)
I’ve enjoyed writing about my experience with tech products and decided I would keep posting my experiences (good or bad) about the tech services I am using as I try and grow Digital Ruby. Recently I purchased a Flickr Pro …
My Horrifying Experience with Google AdMob
AdMob for App Installs? No thank you… I recently put AdMob ads into my free iOS app, You Doodle Plus. While the click rates are good the ECPM is absolutely terrible. Here’s a visual to give you an idea (click …
SSD Prices Keep Going Down
I bought another Crucial M4 hard drive from Amazon today. It’s been amazing to see how SSD prices have continued to drop over the past few years. As of today, the 512 GB M4 had a 329$ price tag on …
You Doodle Plus Approved
We just released You Doodle Plus, an advertising supported version of You Doodle into the app store. This version contains all the features of the free version, unlocked and free for use. It will be interesting to see whether people …
You Doodle Update
Well, it’s been just over six months since I shipped version 1 of You Doodle to the iOS app store. After six months, I’m getting about 3000 downloads a day and 75-100 dollars of in app purchases. So far I’ve …
Logging full NSException stack traces to your server
*UPDATE* I am using Crashlytics instead now and it’s awesome, go check it out! Recently in You Doodle I discovered a couple of nasty crashes happening to users by looking in my Flurry Analytics error logs. Unfortunately flurry decides to …
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My You Doodle Journey
I’ve spent at least 250+ hours of my life the past few months on You Doodle, a new app for iOS. I looked at all the drawing apps on the app store and realized most were filled with ads, had …