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Entrepreneur Life: Dealing with negative feedback on your product

My Day To-Do has been out for more than a year now and recently we got our first negative review/feedback on it and I assure you it was not easy to deal with. In summary, one the tasks that I had assigned to the former marketing intern at My Day To-Do was to contact a bunch of journalists for app review sites and ask them to review My Day To-Do. Of all those contacted, one of them got back to us and offered to review My Day To-Do provided we made some changes, however once we made those changes and asked him to review the app, he told us that he will not be reviewing it! In this post I will describe what his feedback was like as well what it was like for me to deal with. Why did I want non users to review my app? Lately, some app review websites have gained a lot of popularity and given how crowded the App Store is, it totally makes sense to have someone recommend whats best to you. Therefore I thought it was entirely logical for me to have a review of My Day To-Do published b...

How and when to ask users to leave a review for your iOS app

I finally added a means of requesting users to leave a review for the My Day To-Do family of apps ( Pro or Lite ). The interesting thing is, the underlying code to do so is different for those using iOS 10.3 and above and those with iOS versions below it. In this post, I am going to share the code ( Swift ) to achieve that and my logic behind when to prompt users to leave a review. What logic? I mean as a user the last thing I want is for an app to ask me to leave a review, the first time I open it. That's just annoying and in that case I am more likely to leave a negative review. Anyway without further a due let's get to it. Background Prompting users to leave a review for My Day To-Do was a lower priority item on the list of things to-do for My Day To-Do. However the recent spike in downloads for My Day To-Do just made it a higher priority item and something to be done ASAP (If you want to know more about the download spike, you can read this post ). In my quest to ...