chrisvasselli

Author here.

Even though I wasn’t thrilled from a user perspective about Apple adding a second ad slot to App Store search, I was generally optimistic it would help my indie app business, since Search Ads convert well for me.

What surprised me was that total downloads stayed roughly the same while paid installs increased and organic installs fell by a similar amount. In the end I paid more without increasing downloads.

Happy to answer questions about the data, Search Ads setup, or the Japanese dictionary app market.

I'm going to add some ability to display things in romaji in the future, so users can start on some of the actual sentences before completing hiragana/katakana. Agree that getting through all the characters before starting anything else is not motivating.

Planning on at least adding "this is approximately JLPT N4" kind of tags on the levels in the future.

Awesome! Let me know if you have any feedback after playing around with it.

Thanks for that feedback. The drawing system was originally developed for writing kanji, used in my other app Nihongo. Kanji doesn't have the same kind of long strokes that change direction as hiragana, so I could see it not behaving as well for those. I'll see if I can improve it, thanks!

Thanks, this is really useful. I've got some of those in my app, but this gives me a good set of features to aim for as well.

This is really really interesting. I wonder if the data from FrameNet would be enough to reliably generate this kind of information in a Japanese dictionary, and if the license supports is usage. I'm going to explore this more, thanks.

Individual courses are $120, unlocking all seven is $300 (USD).

Whoops! Japanese-learning app then.

Kanji lessons coming soon. :)

This is great feedback, thanks. I’ll definitely be putting pricing information on the website.

Been thinking about adding EPWING dictionary support to Nihongo for a long time, maybe it’s time to make that happen. It seems to be the only way to get good J-J definitions in particular.