I was playing around with writing an app for the new Apple TV, and it was fun enough that I ended up putting a bit of polish on it and releasing it to the app store. It's a free game called Slingshot Superhero.
It wasn't until the app got approved that I started to realize just how terrible app discovery is on the platform. There's no "new apps" list at all. There are no Top 100 lists in the individual categories. I can't even link you guys to the app. The only way anybody can find my app is if I personally tell them to go to the app store, find the search feature, and use the hilariously bad text input feature to search for "Slingshot Superhero".
I probably won't be making any more Apple TV apps.
It wasn't until the app got approved that I started to realize just how terrible app discovery is on the platform. There's no "new apps" list at all. There are no Top 100 lists in the individual categories. I can't even link you guys to the app. The only way anybody can find my app is if I personally tell them to go to the app store, find the search feature, and use the hilariously bad text input feature to search for "Slingshot Superhero".
I probably won't be making any more Apple TV apps.