Why should i have a landing page for a mobile app?

Hi Oliver! I think it would be very helpful to your app's publicity. Just like the many other Indiehackers said on this post.

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I think it's worth it. Adds a lot to credibility. Lots of people check these things nowadays. Personally, I get around ~80 users for Snap Search in a week through the website.

I'd default to yes because it will only lead to more surface area for awareness.

It also doesn't have to be anything complex or anything - something like Carrd could do the trick.

Think of it as a calling card for your app, that people might stumble upon while online if you have the proper SEO in place. And if you turn it into a full on website with more information, you could benefit from starting by letting it marinate on search results.

In my experience, there are two ways to be successful in the app store.

1. You "win" the ASO game, your app is in the top 5 or so apps for an important keyword and the app store drives a ton of traffic and sales to you.
2. You don't win the ASO game, and the app store drives very little traffic/sales to you. Now it's up to you to drive traffic and sales from outside the app store to you app.

If you are one of the handful of lucky apps in category #1, then you don't really need a landing page. But if you are like 95%+ of apps out there, you're in category #2, and you need to need a web page, social media presence, free content, videos, and whatever else you can possibly do to drive traffic to your app from outside the app store.

Especially with mobile apps most downloads are caused by someone going to the App Store and searching for an app and will never see the landing page.

For all apps? Any chance you could share the source for this?

I think what a lot of people miss here is the MVP aspect of a landing page.
Can you get people to click on a link/button? Only then should you build the app.
You're scared of a small time investment to distract you from the large one. But maybe you're doing the large one for nothing because nobody wants what youre building? So do the small investment to determine is you can de to big one.
Yes for a successful project you will have spent more time, but across you're whole career you'll be saving butloads of time by not building useless projects :)

I don't remember where I heard it but someone found out that when he sent people on a landing instead of directly on the stores, even tho the downloads went down a bit, the users were much more engaged and brought way more value. You might want to cross check but a landing would be a great investment, no matter how you end up using it.

Mobile app landing pages really shine when you are on multiple platforms. Then you can send/promote a single link instead of platform-specific ones.

Even though you’re only on Android now, you could use a landing page to gather interest or presales for an iOS version. I’m collecting emails for an Android version on my app’s landing page.

Depends what kind of scale you're at imo. It's not worth it for 90% of mobile apps imo.

I'm one of the users who check the developer website in their Play Store app listing. I look for documentation, changelogs, blogs, and other interesting tidbits.

For something really simple and cheap you can quickly put together a page or site with Google Sites.

You should have a page as part of your overall marketing strategy. There is a world out there beyond App Store / Play Store where people are searching for apps.

Every 1% you get over your competitor is 1% added over and over for a long time.

You get to show and tell more about your app than what is possible with app listing in the store.

You have a touchpoint for your users as well as future users via a contact form, email or instant chat.

You can get a template for a few bucks and customise it over the weekend :) I'm not a coder per se but good bootstrap based template with documentation is quite easy to work with.. it should be no brainer to have a page.