blackpidgeon

Hm, yes. What you are looking for is a "10 super secret ASO tips" list. Web's full of them.

> I think you need to approach specific users (like forum moderators or reviewers of similar app) and share your app details.

This will give you a short time spike in installs. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't last and you can't play that card more than once.

You are thinking in the wrong direction. You are focusing on that "one app that will make you rich". The post tells you to think in terms of network effects: instead of asking "how can I get installs for my main app?", you should ask "how can I leverage the work I already invested in my other projects into boosting my latest project?"

Yes, there is a bit of a chicken/egg here, but getting _some_ installs for an app really is not that difficult.

Getting an app "noticed" isn't particularly hard. Just make a thread for it over at XDA, Reddit, here,...

That will get you your 5 minutes^H^H^H^H seconds of internetfame already. However, it will only create a short popularity spike and you constantly have to invest in promotions to keep that up.

The blogpost doesn't tell you to put ads for your other apps into your apps (that would be stupid!), but to think of ways in which they can complement each other. That way you get effortless crosspromotion, can touch vastly different traffic sources and channel users to your main app.