How one bootstrapped founder got 4.5 million app store downloads
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Learn how Patrick Thompson bootstrapped Inkstone Mobile to over 4.5 million downloads on the app store in 3.5 years. How he created 15 (soon 18) apps out of a single codebase; how he got his apps featured in Engadget, Gizmodo, and Huffington post; how he got 200,000 downloads in 2 days (twice); how he got Apple to feature his apps; and how he thinks about marketing from an engineer's mindset to generate visibility for his apps.
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