I distribute four applications through the Microsoft Store. One gets far more page views than the others.

It is YuGPT.

The application I have been working on most enthusiastically is YuHex, my Windows hex editor for inspecting and editing the bytes inside files. Yet in the Store figures I am looking at, YuGPT gets roughly two orders of magnitude more page views than YuHex.

Does that mean YuGPT sells well? No. It barely sells at all.

People visit. Very few buy.

As the developer, I find that hard to ignore. The app attracting attention is not the one receiving most of my effort, and the sales tell a different story from the views. The numbers do not explain what people thought when they arrived.

So I went back to the problem that made me build YuGPT in the first place. This time, the changes would not all be in the code.

I only wanted to find that answer again

I made YuGPT because I needed it myself.…