App Store Release and Disappointing Beta Responses
Uploaded the AC_thing app to the App Store last night. My friend Chris also made this sick app icon.
This feels like a milestone I guess but for now, I’m holding off on continuing the experiment until summer when I think there’ll be more appetite for the device (when people are actually using their ACs!).
The user response to the beta program has been pretty disappointing. A learning experience but getting people to enroll in a beta program requires a level of marketing that isn’t really dissimilar to that required for products which are actually in production and I think I underestimated that and overestimated the interest I would receive by getting caught up in its development.
It also didn’t help that it’s March and nobody’s using their air conditioners right now! That bad timing was just a result of how long some unknowns turned out to take.
We’ll see how things go in the summer when I think I’ll cast the net farther.