Is your Android app in need of an advertisement campaign?

Here is a mail that I got couple of days ago..

This is a nice business. Hire few guys to put negative reviews for your app. This obviously kills your installs. Then charge app developers to remove these comments. I guess this would be the general business model for all customer "review" sites.  

Dear Android developer,

We would like to introduce our new marketing approach for your Android app in two easy steps:

1. Make your Google Play page look very attractive

- Adding 100 5-star ratings and 10 positive reviews to the app
- Removing negative comments from your front page
- Adding 250 Google Plus 1’s
- Creating a professional YouTube video
- Adding 2.000 views and 150 Likes to your YouTube video
- Adding 250 Likes to your Facebook page
2. Driving traffic to the Google Play page

- Creating new threads on 15 most visited Android forums
- Submitting the app to 50 most popular Android review writing websites
- Posting reviews on different Twitter pages with a total of 3 million followers
- Posting on the most popular Facebook groups with a total of 300.000 members
- Posting the app in adds on various sites through the web which generates 100+ views per day for 1 month
Price Standard Package: $299

Additional upgrades:

- Add 25.000 views and 1.000 Likes to your YouTube video for $100
- Add 1.000 Facebook Likes for $100
- Add 1.000 app ratings and comments for an additional $800
- Add 1.500 Google +1’s for an additional $100
- Remove negative comments for $10 per comment
A list of all the forums, review sites, Facebook pages and Twitter pages will be provided after the promotion is completed.

Not convinced yet? Want to order? Got a question? Just reply to this email.
Thanks!

Ilia

You can get it touch with them at androidstandardpack@gmail.com.

Nano Problem

It doesn't sells.

Car is all about prestige in India. Expensive motorcycle generates more prestige than buying cheapest car. May be they should just add more features and bring its price at par with Maruti. 

hi4hi - Accepting payments via Google Play

It is two weeks since Google pulled out our app from play store. We have complied with their concerns and released new version which accepts payments via Google Play. You can find it here 

Google Play supports direct carrier billing and credit card payments. 

Making Pizza at home - Ultimate trick

Cook the base for about one minute in the microwave using microwave not convection.

Take it out, apply the sauce, add toppings, add cheese, a bit of olive oil. Do this as fast as you can, not more than 2 minutes. And bake (convection - no more microwave) it for 10-12 minutes or until the cheese is done. Goes with saying that you should have pre-heated the microwave before starting.

One minute of microwave is worth 5-7 minutes of baking without loosing the moisture. You can't do it after making the pizza because then you will loose all the crispness and it will become soggy.  Give it another 30 seconds if you like large air bubble in your pizza. Keep it at 1 minute if you like soft bread like texture. Extend it to 2 minutes if you want it to puff up like a balloon. 

hi4hi Matrimony: Google surprise

Yesterday we registered our 1000th customer. And today I got this from Google:

"This is a notification that your application, hi4hi Matrimony, with package ID com.hi4hi.mobile, has been removed from the Google Play Store.

REASON FOR REMOVAL: Violation of the paid and free provision of the Content Policy and section 3.3 of the Developer Distribution Agreement.

All violations are tracked. Serious or repeated violations of any nature will result in the termination of your developer account, and investigation and possible termination of related Google accounts. If your account is terminated, payments will cease and Google may recover the proceeds of any past sales and/or the cost of any associated fees (such as chargebacks and transaction fees) from you.

If your developer account is still in good standing, you may revise and upload a policy compliant version of your application as a new package name. Before uploading any new applications, please review the Developer Distribution Agreement and Content Policy.

If you feel we have made this determination in error, you can visit the Google Play Help Center article for additional information regarding this removal.

The Google Play Team"

With shaadi.com and jeevansathi.com apps still in the app store, and charging money for membership, I find it completely uncalled for. 

Anyways, we will be putting up the APK on the website so that users can directly download and install the app. We are also working on browser only version of the app so that we don't have to go through app store.  As as bonus, we will be available on all mobile phones that have browser. 

Hang on for a week. 

Rohit Karlupia, 

Founder Hi4Hi Matrimony Services