Today there are many very good free services. we found the market oversaturated, it's hard to get out of the spiral of getting worse and worse reviews, especially because of the new update, the market was constantly narrowing, so we would not have been able to achieve too much without another explosion. Free providers have a lot of downloaders and reach a huge number of users. For them, this user base is the primary one, which they resell or use in another form. However, this solution is mainly suitable for large companies, as an individual developer it is extremely difficult to exploit the user base.


Another way out could have been to switch to a Industry Email List cheaper, possibly free service provider, as many competitors have done. In return, accept significantly worse quality, or strongly regulate when data is requested from service providers. Of course, the idea came up that we could have focused on Windows , but overall, considering the trends, we rejected it. If the weather application had been lossless, we would have left it without updates - like Cocktail Flow or Flashlight - but we didn't want to pay for it in the future.



So we decided to pull down the curtain. What is the main lesson for you from the whole story? What's next? If you are fast in the market and are the first to innovate by taking into account the will of the people, you can make a big break. After we came out with the new HD lock screen, it boosted our sales for a good while. This was probably the biggest success in the life of Weather Flow. UX is primary, and once you're in the saddle, you have to be careful and focus more on incremental innovation. However, since for us this weather application was not a primary project, but rather as a showcase application, we do not regret it today.