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The Rankmint journey · Day 3

#155 #135

Building Rankmint in public, on our own app's rank.

Orate ranked #155 for "teleprompter", the word in its own name. Rankmint is the tool we built that day. Every rank we check and everything we ship goes on this page, until Orate reaches the top 20.

By Gajendra Singh Rathore · Updated · US App Store ranks unless noted

Twenty days, from the first search to the refund deadline3 done · 7 to launch · 10 more to Nov 15
  1. Oct 27
  2. 28
  3. 29
  4. 30
  5. 31
  6. Nov 1
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  20. 15

DoneNov 5, launchNov 15, automatic refund if Rankmint isn't downloadable

The proof

115 places to page one.

Rankmint's first listing change for Orate ships with its next release. Until then, every check is the baseline it has to beat.

#155Oct 27 #135 Oct 29 Top 20the goal

#200#150#100#50#1

"teleprompter" · six App Stores · Oct 29
  • DE#59
  • ES#61
  • AU#122
  • US#135
  • GB#174
  • IN—

Bar length is distance from #200. India doesn't show Orate in its top 200.

The log

What happened, newest first.

  1. Oct 29Day 3 · today

    Decision

    Launch set for Nov 5, as a direct download.

    A notarized Mac app sold through our own checkout, not the Mac App Store. If it isn't downloadable by Nov 15, every pre-order is refunded automatically.

  2. Decision

    A price that rises as licenses sell.

    The first 10 licenses are $19, then $5 more after every 10 sold, up to $89. Today's price is $19, with 10 left before it goes up.

  3. Shipped

    rankmint.app, two free tools and two guides.

    Everything on the site uses Orate's real ranks. Visit counts use no cookies.

    Rank checkerAny keyword, 10 App Stores Keyword field checkerWasted characters, by Apple's rules GuidesKeywords by country, missing from search

  4. Oct 27Day 1

    Data

    #155 for the word in its own name.

    teleprompter
    1. 1Teleprompter34,184 ratings
    2. 2Teleprompter for Video15,163 ratings
    4. 155Orate: Video Teleprompter0 ratings

  5. Shipped

    The first keyword report, for Orate.

    30 keywords in the US, India and the UK, with a rewritten name, subtitle and keyword field. It's now the sample report.

    keyword checks
    90
    best rank, India
    #15
    US top-10 median ratings
    29,788
    new keywords to target
    11

  6. Data

    150 indie apps to talk to.

    Released in the last 180 days, under 50 US ratings, from developers with four apps or fewer. Each will get a short note about its own listing.

Next, in order

  1. 01Rankmint 1.0 for Mac

    Nov 5. Find the keywords you can win in 20 countries and write them into App Store Connect.

  2. 02Orate's listing, written by Rankmint

    The first real change, shipped with Orate's next release and logged here that day.

  3. 03The before-and-after

    Every keyword's rank before and after, next to keywords we didn't touch. Good or bad, it goes up here.

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Refundable until launch. Ranks are read from each country's App Store search on the date shown, top 200 results.