Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core

Here's the dirty secret Amazon don't want you to know, they don't pay developers a single cent.

Amazon gave away 101,491 copies of our app! At this point, we had a few seconds of excitement as well, had we mis-read the email and really earned $54,800 in one day? We would have done if our public agreement was in place, but we can now confirm that thanks to Amazon's secret back-door deals, we made $0 on that day.

Amazon decided to rub salt in the wounds a little further by discounting our app to 99 cents for a few days after the free promotion.

To add insult to injury Pocket Casts relies on a server to parse podcast feeds, and all these new users forced us to buy more hardware just to meet demand.