Excited to see my app finally make it into the store I wanted to see what the competition looked like and how easy it was to find my app. On submission to the store you were asked to select a handful of keywords that were associated with your app. I assumed that these would be the criteria used for searching the Windows 8 app store.
The first step was looking at the New Releases in the store. Hmm, Matchee didn't appear to be listed here. Why not? I never figured that out.
Next, I decided to search for one of my keywords: Memory. Sure enough, putting memory into the search bar returned over 100 apps, but unfortunately, none of them were Matchee. This was also frustrating as it was one of the keywords I had selected.
A search for "Match" did return Matchee, though I presume only because "Match" was in the name Matchee. It appeared the keywords I had entered did not carry the same weight as the title of the app, at the moment it appeared that they carried almost no weight.
By this time, I had enlisted 4 friends to purchase Matchee and 1 of them had given the game a 5 star review. Because of the review I instantly shot up to the top spot in the Games->Kids category when sorted by rating.
Not super excited about searching for my own app, I was at least encouraged that people looking for games within the Kids subcategory would at least be presented with my app in the top 10.
Matchee
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