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Stuart Hall

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Stuart Hall

@stuartkhall

Co-founder & Co-CEO @AppbotX. iOS side projects: 7 Minute Workout & WordBoard Keyboard.

Perth, Australia

Joined May 2009

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I’m bringing back a blog series I ran for years: The App Store Experiment. From 2013–2020 it reached nearly 1 million readers and documented real experiments growing an app on the App Store. But the ecosystem has changed dramatically. • ASO is harder. • Ad spend on Meta and
Stuart Hall
@stuartkhall
May 6, 2019
. @PetRescue Ghost the lovable Direwolf is looking for a new home. Abandoned by owner who is heading south. Would prefer a cold northern location. Very loyal, but not great with White Walkers. Ghost would be a great addition to your family & can't wait to find his forever home.
I'm doing an AMA over on Reddit if anyone is keen to follow along reddit.com/r/SideProject/…
Conversation with my 4 year old this morning Him: "Dad, why are you working at home again?" Me: "Because of the bug buddy" Him: "Because you just push buttons and you can do that anywhere" Me: "I guess you're right" Him: "I am right" He's right
“How I got 2.3 million app downloads (without spending a cent on marketing)” medium.com/@stuartkhall/h…
Want to get featured on the App Store? Now there's a channel! appstore.com/promote
Stuart Hall
@stuartkhall
Apr 13, 2021
During COVID lockdown I decided to switch a couple of my side projects to subscriptions. They just crossed USD$150k ARR. Probably deserves a longer form blog post, but how great is the @AppStore?
I wrote about switching to App Store subscriptions and price experiments to the first $1k in MRR. If you like charts you'll probably like this one 📈📊appbot.co/blog/switching…
Stuart Hall
@stuartkhall
Mar 28, 2017
My 8 year old daughter seeing a desktop tower computer "What's that?" "It's a computer" "Dad, you're silly, what is it?" 😳
It gets me really annoyed every startup event I go to in Perth ends up turning into "We can't raise money because there is no VC money in Perth". You can't raise money anywhere without a product, customers and/or a track record. Get those things and watch the offers roll in.
I find opening the hotspot screen on the phone is the only reliable way
Stuart Hall
@stuartkhall
Jul 8, 2020
My 14 year old son has taken over customer support for my side project iOS apps. He built a support site with FAQs, setup a contact form and an email support tool. Kids these days are pretty savvy when you offer them money.
Stuart Hall
@stuartkhall
Mar 6, 2020
"Success" often takes much, much longer than you think. Like this app of mine 5 years on!
Stuart Hall
@stuartkhall
Nov 8, 2017
I wrote about trying to run a tech startup from Perth stories.appbot.co/running-a-glob…