Although I agree with some things highlighted in this article, there's one that I strongly disagree with: the niche you choose has everything to do with success, however polished your app is.
If you want to be a profitable indie shop, don't make yet another todo-list, note-taking or rss-reader app. These are "student" projects or hobbyists side-projects. However polished your app is, you are not bringing any significant value to your potential customers. There are tons of alternatives and many free ones. Basically, you can code and manage a project, that's one side of the coin but you are also showing that you are not really creative in terms of building something new, that solves an existing issue and that people want to pay for.
Also, I agree with people mentionning the bad screenshots. If I'm going to pay $4.99 for an app, I want to feel it is a polished app and not a quick chinese knock-off of a popular one (which the current screenshots heavily convey).
When a niche market is already full, more thinking could have gone into the name. By not incorporating the word "RSS" in it, it is quite hard to do a search or even get at first sight what the app is. "Unread RSS" would have worked just fine.
If you want to be a profitable indie shop, don't make yet another todo-list, note-taking or rss-reader app. These are "student" projects or hobbyists side-projects. However polished your app is, you are not bringing any significant value to your potential customers. There are tons of alternatives and many free ones. Basically, you can code and manage a project, that's one side of the coin but you are also showing that you are not really creative in terms of building something new, that solves an existing issue and that people want to pay for.
Also, I agree with people mentionning the bad screenshots. If I'm going to pay $4.99 for an app, I want to feel it is a polished app and not a quick chinese knock-off of a popular one (which the current screenshots heavily convey).
When a niche market is already full, more thinking could have gone into the name. By not incorporating the word "RSS" in it, it is quite hard to do a search or even get at first sight what the app is. "Unread RSS" would have worked just fine.