PEEK Tagged as "Staff Favorite" in US App Store

After these last 10 days, you’ll never convince me that App Store positioning doesn’t matter.  In the same day, PEEK found itself on the front of the “Staff Favorites” list in the US and the top of the “New and Noteworthy” section in Australia.  Instantly we saw sales of PEEK go up several hundred per cent in each country!  It’s clear that most iPhone/iPod users periodically check the app store and don’t go much further than the front page – and with thousands of apps out there, who can blame them?!  

We certainly understand this and are grateful to be more visible for the time being.  We are also a bit confused by the seeming randomness of the whole App Store process including who makes these decisions and why for each store.  For example, we have been the #1 paid social app in several countries but were never mentioned in their “New and Noteworthy” sections.  Now we’re there and have little idea why...but we ain’t complaining!!  

After our initial frustration in the first weeks, we realized that this process was more or less out of our control.  Instead we decided to focus on the only thing we COULD control which was to make PEEK the best Social App in the world.  We realize we have a long way to go in order to accomplish this and we have taken your comments and suggestions very seriously.  

‘FRIENDS’ LIST and better Message History – we know, we know.  We’ve heard it from all corners of the earth!  These are features we actually planned from the start but we just wanted to make sure the anonymous element of PEEK wasn’t lost in the process.   That’s why the decision was made to release the first version without it. But rest assured it will be part of Peek 2.0! We are also hard a work on many other great features.  

Uhh, let me correct that...TOMMY is very hard at work!  I’m currently on a beach in Punta del Este, Uruguay.  Hey, it’s a rough life, I know, but someone has to be the International Ambassador for PEEK!!

¡Nos Vemos!   C