Is the App Store BROKEN or am I? Plus, reacting to my competition | App Underdog #4

Apple doesn't make it easy for indie developers to find success on the App Store. And there are challenges of naming the app, coming up with an icon, and figuring out how to make money. I have shipped several financially disastrous indie apps following the market research techniques shown here. But I am hoping that by being wrong on the internet, together we will come to understand how the App Store works as I develop an app that converts photos into typewriter art. I also try to evaluate the competition. There isn't a lot, which means that my idea for converting photos to typewriter art is going to be a blockbuster serving an unserved market, or it means that other people have tried and found that the market doesn't support them. These are the three apps I ended up installing and testing in this video. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/image-to-ascii-art/id1329402459 Image to ASCII Art Liam Rosenfeld https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photo-to-ascii/id1454314457 Photo to ASCII DSP https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ascii-art/id416685946?mt=12 ASCII Art Nuclear Nova Software 0:00 How Apple makes it hard 1:41 Top Photo & Video and Graphics & Design apps 6:56 Searching the App Store 7:52 Image to ASCII Art app review 10:30 Photo to ASCII app review 10:57 ASCII Art app review 12:11 Market opportunity And this is my app, Typewriter FX, that you can finally download on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6480524871?pt=119175269&ct=yt&mt=8 #mobiledevelopment #codinglife #marketing