I hear a lot about AppSumo and how it can do a lot to get a product name out there. Much of the positive media stories seem to come from a few years ago so I’m not sure if it’s still as powerful as it was.
Has anyone had a product featured on AppSumo? Or had one turned down? Any insights either way?
I noticed that their submission page seems to have vanished into a 404, as has most of their pages indexed by google.
Fascinating read here. https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/how-we-made-160-000-in-two-weeks-launching-our-saas-on-appsumo-66e96edb1b
Recent too, very detailed. I think this will answer a lot of your questions.
Thanks for that. Some great detail there. I’ll chase up the guy who posted and see if he can help out with a submission email or contact.
I’ve heard that most do it because of the instant push in publicity and users. Not for the profit, as AppSumo is taking a big cut and the lifetime deals are not really helping your long term monetization.
But it may be interesting if you want to have a few hundred new users within a week to gain their insights, questions and feedback and if you see the cut for AppSumo as ad spending or research money…
People I know who have used AppSumo said it was mostly useful to get a nice surge of cash.
If your business is cash-strapped, and could do with some money up front to invest in further dev and marketing, consider it.
If you have a comfortable amount of cash in your business, AppSumo is probably not worthwhile.
It’s exposure I was looking for rather than a cash influx. Finally found a support email for them – on a cached Google page from a few weeks ago. It seems they’ve had a site redesign and all the old contact pages are gone, replaced by nothing. I’ll see what happens.
Taken from the FAQ:
Thanks for reaching out and being interest in working with us.
Please amaan@appsumo.com and submit more information to us and the deal team can then review your information, and will get in touch with you if they feel that your product is a good fit for AppSumo.