Oct
22
ShopSavvy is most popular Android App (for now)
Don’t expect it to last with titles like MySpace and Facebook, but today ShopSavvy is the most popular application in the Android Market. This despite the fact that the application was removed and reinstalled yesterday around lunch time. Within two hours of its appearance in the Market, according to Jason Chen from Google, ShopSavvy had been installed by 3096 people and in actual use (scanning barcodes) by 3033 of them (97% active users). This was a pretty exciting two hours. Our server loads have spiked, but our balancers seem to be handling everything very well. Our hope is to have Amazon EC2 as our primary backup – we are working closely with Novell to get ShopSavvy up on Mono (allowing us to run .Net on Amazon).
Google is working hard to launch Android Market’s web FE for developers so that install and usage data can be viewed from our publisher account. Of course, our own system has all of the usage data we can handle – hopefully we will have our own frontend up and running in a couple of weeks.
Great app guys!
This is the app on the market that I see as the most useful and a MUST have.
Any insight to what you are working on next?
Location based games/social media? – this is where the interest and money (advertising) will be as mobile Internet takes off in the coming years.
,Michael Martin
Comment by Michael Martin — October 22, 2008 @ 3:35 pm