Garmin discourage new app?

yp over 5 years ago

The homepage only show the most popular and most downloaded APPs. How do people know or find a new APP? Does that mean GARMIN think the current APPs are enough and doesn't welcome or discourage new APP?

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago

There is "more" on the categories, and in the CIO Mobile app, you can search by "newest".

Nik over 5 years ago

I've noticed that marketing/advertisement is probably most effective in others forums where likeminded audiences can be found. I made an app, surely usable by others but mostly for my own needs and posted in some groups on Facebook. It has 30 downloads compared to the 50000 of the beer counter ;-)

9635560 over 5 years ago in reply to Nik

It certainly favours the old guard, but there’s more to it than that.

On the one-hand, I have a DF with downloads measured in hundreds for a year, then it got featured on ConnectIQ and it became thousands in a month...

On the other hand, I’ve an app that climbed very healthily on its own (because I found a niche that was under supplied with a simple search term) that also got featured but downloads shifted just for the week of the promotion and only by a small factor.

Building something that people need, want _AND_ understand first. Make sure it’s new second. Be willing to do your own marketing third.

And... make sure you explore Garmin’s existing features. Quite a few “good ideas” I’ve had were abandoned after looking a bit deeper only to discover Garmin already does that, out of the box.

Garmin does a lot. Really, lots and lots of stuff.

You need to be creative to find a hole these days.