Goalbook 1.5

Filed under Development, Design, Update, Goalbook

In the last post I mentioned sales declined dramatically, after appearing as a featured app for some time in the App Store. I submitted Goalbook 1.5 a couple of days ago and I hope to boost sales a little bit and cover some of the essential things people had been requesting.

One of the things that had a negative impact on the sales and reviews was the lack of functionality. When I started developing Goalbook, I set out two goals for myself:

1. Create a gorgeous looking app.
2. Simple functionality, no hassle.

The big difference with a normal todo list is mostly due to design and functionalities like: sharing, viewing other peoples goals, images, tweets and a map with goal locations.
But after launch it quickly came clear the functionalities didn’t live up to people’s expectations. These high expectations are mostly due the looks and feel of the app and my wrongly formulated app store description which stated goalbook offered tracking functionality, but this tracking was only limited to a completed and not completed goal state. I should have made clear Goalbook offers simple functionality for keeping goals.

I got a lot of positive reactions. Some ...