Archive for October, 2011

This week, nearly 6 months after it was launched, our our first app designed for the classroom “Futaba” [Link] peaked at number 27 in the Education category. Around 50,000 people have downloaded and installed the app. Most people seem to love it;

As Kevin Foley writes, “Futaba is a fantastic app for language learning. We love the fact that we can easily customize it by creating games based on our son’s weekly spelling lists. He can play by himself against the clock or we can join in the game and “compete” against him. It makes learning that much fun for him and less of a headache for us.”

While it’s great that people are using the application, the problem is that In the last 6 months, it’s made less $1200 in sales, and about the same in advertising (which ideally we would never want to put on a children’s app). Here’s why… More >