Creating and Selling Apollofy Templates
The template store offers pre-built apps that users can copy and customize with ease. The Apollofy store contains many different types of templates designed by members of the Apollofy community, but you can also submit and sell your own templates.
Purchasing a well-developed template can provide a great deal of value and reach to businesses. You must carefully plan your app in order to to make it successful.
In this article, we'll cover several topics related to creating well-designed templates.
Here are some things we'll discuss:
Coming up with your app idea
Creating a unique app
Template guidelines
App info and support
Coming up with a template idea
A well-designed template can assist a firm in finding inspiration, focusing their content into a distinct format, and launching rapidly.
Perhaps you've already thought of a template that you wish to create. If you don't, though, the simplest place to start is to go to the template store and have a look at what's currently available. This may immediately inspire some ideas, but it will also help you understand what is already in place and where there might be some gaps.
You can also speak with businesses as an alternative. Building applications for businesses and professionals is also a smart idea because almost all firms encounter daily issues that may be resolved by well-organized apps.
Speaking with companies about their processes and spreadsheet usage can help you come up with new template concepts
Remember that business owners might not be aware of the benefits of an app if you chat with them directly. If so, a good place to start is by inquiring about the company's existing use of spreadsheets. You can learn a lot about how businesses work from this, including how you could develop apps to replace or improve their workflow.
Creating a unique app
If you've discovered a template idea that fills a highly specific need that isn't currently being met by a product in the market, it's great. However, if the app store already has similar apps, you must consider how to set yours out from the others.
This could be through:
Amazing Design
Advanced logic in the data editor
Highly specialized target users
Great onboarding
Amazing Design
Your template can stand out from existing ones by having an engaging and identifiable style and layout. This can be achieved with Apollofy's layout tools, themes, custom design elements, or images.
Customers will find your template more interesting and useful the more design work you can complete in advance. Even if they don't use the graphics and designs, you want to show them how beautiful an app can be to encourage them.
Image
An excellent template should have an engaging narrative. To put it another way, it must be loaded with useful dummy information and examples of how it functions. From within the data editor, Apollofyprovides quick access to photos from Unsplash that are free to use. This makes it simple for you to add high-quality photographs to your app for no cost.
Layout
You may create thousands of various layout combinations (over 20,000) using sections and columns, which provide a wide range of creative options.
Applying components effectively
You have a lot more formatting options for text style and alignment when using the text component. The text might suddenly appear interesting by utilizing this component in many ways, especially if you pick the ideal font for your app!
Bar and Line Graph! Everyone enjoys a good graph, so even if you don't think your app requires one, it may be worthwhile to give it some thought. Each chart features several well-considered color schemes that can add a lot of liveliness to a screen.
App Icon
The app icon will show up in the template store after your app has been submitted. You can think about creating your own unique app logo for the template rather than just utilizing a basic emoji. When users are browsing, this is another feature that can significantly distinguish your app from competitors.
Design Elements
With a bit of work, you may also learn how to create simple design pieces for your app using Canvas. An image that perfectly integrates into the app's header, for instance, gives the app a unique shape.
Advanced logic in the data editor
Another way to add uniqueness and challenge to your apps is by creating templates that make use of the power of Apollofy's Data editor. You might design personalized calculators, inventory management, or location-tracking apps, for instance, all of which would make use of Data Editor features that beginners might find difficult to create on their own.
User Target
Templates that are made for a particular target user or use case are frequently much more successful than ones that are made to accomplish everything. Making a conference software specialized for medical professionals, a production journal designed for filmmakers, or a project planner especially beneficial for event planners are a few examples of how you could accomplish this.
These app concepts are all suited to a particular type of user. By doing this, the design and functionality of your app will be more coherent, and the value of your template in comparison to other templates the buyer is considering will be more obvious.
Template Guidelines
There are several factors that can keep your software from getting approved for the store. Make sure your app complies with the following rules to prevent this.
Standalone
Templates ought to function as complete standalone applications. This indicates that no additional apps or services are required for the app to function on its own. For instance, an app made to be used in conjunction with another Apollofy app (such as a companion admin app) won't be approved.
In other words, your program must function without any additional configuration outside of Apollofy as soon as someone copies it.
Dummy Data
A false or 'dummy' set of data should be used in your template. For instance, remove any private or personally identifying information from the data if you based the template on one of your own or a client's apps.
Ensure that the photographs you use in your app are free from copyrights. Apps with photos that violate copyright will be rejected.
Non-copyright Elements
There cannot be any copyright-protected elements in templates. No pictures, audio, or video that is protected by someone else's or a business's copyright, in other words. Utilizing digital assets that you have created or services with "creative commons" copyright licensing is the best approach to stay away from this kind of content. Make sure you know the rules of benefiting from use and that you abide by them.
App Support
When submitting a template, you must provide the app name, description, category, and video.
A single phrase should be used, as a way to summarize what your template operates in the description.
Use this template, for instance, to create a list of local small businesses that offer grocery delivery or curbside pickup.
Click 'Use Template', if Open Source Templates purchased can be used any amount of times for any number of Apps. If Commercial / Developer Template, Purchased License can only be used once per purchase.
Purchase the Template and you'll proceed to a screen where you can add App Details that includes App name, User name, Plan, and Type of App.
You also have the option of skipping this step(App details). After completing the setup and navigating to your application, you can start customizing the template.
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