Check the acquisition promise
Read the store headline, screenshots and description. What problem is the app promising to solve?
Study the storefront ↗John Detloff · iOS
Explore the ad evidence, study the storefront, and build your next acquisition hypothesis.
01 / Creative research
Read the store headline, screenshots and description. What problem is the app promising to solve?
Study the storefront ↗Explore apps with direct store-link matches. Compare their hooks and formats without assuming the same approach works here.
Browse observed advertisers ↗Store rankings and revenue estimates describe market context. They do not establish ad spend, conversions or ROAS.
Review the market context ↗02 / Storefront & product
Study the product story and store experience behind the acquisition funnel.
03 / Market context
Keep revenue, downloads and store rankings separate from advertising performance.
I do like the simple clean layout. Some puzzles need the ability for the player to note the numbers that could appear in each square. Could you add a feature where the player can add the small potential numbers into a square. I have done a lot of Kakuro and the potential combinations can be very difficult. It’s always fulfilling to be able to solve logically. But, the ones that you have to guess with trial and error are very difficult on an app unless you can see all the potential numbers for each square. I finished puzzle 1 fine, but puzzle 2 has so many possibilities that it would take hours of guessing to figure it out. I could do this with pencil and paper along with the app but that kind of defeats the purpose of using an app.
I love everything about this app. The simplistic, clean layout is aesthetically pleasing. Operating the game is easy and functional. It is everything that I am looking for in a puzzle to calm my mind. At first, I thought some of the puzzles were unsolvable, it is both challenging and calming, at the same time. If there was a daily hint or something to get through the most difficult puzzles, I would gladly spend money on this app.
A very nice collection of right-sized puzzles—big enough to be interesting, but not so big as to be tedious or hard to work on. The interface is clean, elegant, and mercifully free of gratuitous animations. If a square has more than one value then they are guesses (valid options), if just one value that is your answer. You can also double-click a number to make it the answer. I do wish it had undo, as it is easy to change the wrong square by accident. But for free I am not complaining. My favorite of the Kakuro apps I tried (at any price).
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