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This reminds me of an app of mine that was a top 20 paid app 8+ years ago in the Apple app store. To try and gain more users, I decided I'd try a little test and make the app free for a short amount of time. What I did not realize was that changing the app from paid to free would completely remove my app from the top 20 charts and the free app ended up at the bottom of the free charts.

The app gained positions pretty fast in the free charts, but it never got close to what it was before. Biggest mistake I could have made in hindsight and there was nothing I could do about it. This was my first app in the app store, so I hand no experience with how things worked.




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