The team behind the Discovr music discovery iOS apps, based in Perth, writes about app launches, scaling on AWS, and UX.
HN links it for numbers and lessons from the app's launch, such as iOS 6 adoption at 77%, and one commenter subscribed after reading it.
Thanks, if it wasn't for your comment I wouldn't have subscribed. On Feedly [0] he only has 2k subscribers. If anyone knows similar blogs like this, I'll like to know where I can find them. There really needs to be a Discovr [1] Blogs. It would be just as great if they get pinged and they say they're working on it :-). Currently I'm subscribed to H+ [2] and Singularity Hub [3]. I made a Reddit post asking the same question recently. [4]
[0] http://cloud.feedly.com/
[1] http://discovr.info/about/
[2] http://hplusmagazine.com/
[3] http://singularityhub.com/
[4] http://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/1iq9qx/
It becomes much easier over time. I'm at a point where I could certainly accomplish this, especially now with great projects like CocoaPods. Experienced web developers can create a simple CMS lightyears faster than I can, its all relative.
Now what I find most interesting is that the author doesn't seem to have a large portfolio of apps. The "More by this Developer" link only shows this app, while his website only points to Discovr (http://discovr.info/) which I can't imagine he's the only developer for. I'd be curious to learn more about his expertise.
The link points to the wordpress preview which isn't public. Proper url to the post. http://discovr.info/2011/12/ux-design-experiments-for-a-number-1-mobile-app/
OP, please edit the link while you can.
EDIT: I assume all 4 upvotes in the first few minutes came from the Discovr team hoping to push it to the front page. Just an observation.
Yep did see that, agree it's a pretty big coincidence they launched a few days after mine http://discovr.info/2012/07/how-we-track-our-app-reviews-and-why-you-should-too/
Looks like they built on AWS to achieve that scale. Pretty cool.
http://discovr.info/2011/07/scaling-a-rails-webservice-on-awsec2-for-a-1-iphone-and-ipad-app/
The folks behind Discovr Music say they're at 77% iOS 6 adoption: http://discovr.info/2012/10/discovr-ios-6-adoption-tops-77-iphone-5-is-6/