Comments on: Pure Sudoku Sales Statistics ($6,400 Sales, 1+ Month Development)

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:59:34 +0000

Keep an eye out for my Holiday Bonus sales stats soon, I have logged the man hours and how much money it made. Basically 1 man month and good five figures profit. You’ll see soon…

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:54:54 +0000

@Josh/Leadwerks:

Development time:
The original version took me about 1 month to make part time with Game Maker. 1-2 month part time development for improvements.

2-3 months (part time) spent in marketing

By: Leadwerks

Leadwerks — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:23:53 +0000

How many hours do you think went into development, and how many go into ongoing maintainence?

By: Shaderman

Shaderman — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:00:16 +0000

Thanks for sharing!

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:39:12 +0000

Leadwerks: It’s not years of work :)

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:38:53 +0000

@Jon: Please notice “part time”. And I think of it this way: he’s getting steady extra few hundred bucks every month. (Now repeat this 30 times and you have built a pretty good income for yourself ;))

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:06:17 +0000

@Janette: “better newsletters”? Nah, can’t be! ;)

@Everybody:
3 links thing was something that I just had to test. :) I know you guys are intelligent, and like mentioned: I’ve been receiving newsletter from marketers who sometimes use 3 links.

My results so far: less clicks, more complaints (according to Aweber panel) ;)

@Jake & Paul & Hakushi: Yeh, the stats indeed are cool and I like the SEO strategy for getting sales.

By: Paul Jung

Paul Jung — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:38:15 +0000

yeah, the three link stuff definitely works =)

By: Leadwerks

Leadwerks — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:30:06 +0000

This seems to be a good reason not to make such games. $6000 over several years for 2 months work?

By: Teddy Wijaya

Teddy Wijaya — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:00:07 +0000

I think the 3 links idea is interesting….
Got to admit that I clicked at the third one ;-)