Autodesk creates a Russian application store and pays $ 100 for developers

Autodesk has announced the opening of the Russian-language section of its online application store. In honor of this event, the company holds a campaign: developers who will send their applications to Autodesk for review before September 14 and will receive approval for placement will be awarded a cash prize.



International site store Autodesk Exchange Apps Store has been around for almost two years. To date, the store has more than 600 applications for all key Autodesk products, in particular, AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD Civil 3D. It is planned that the Russian-language section of the store will quickly gather its audience, since users from Russia and the CIS are already one of the most active visitors of the English-language store.

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Up to this point, despite its popularity, the corporate English-language store contained some restrictions for Russian developers. First of all, it is the need to create and send for approval an English copy of the development, while historically most of our applications are purely local and focused just on adapting Autodesk products to all possible domestic standards. Now, developers who create software products for the domestic market can place their applications in the store if they complement and expand Autodesk technologies and meet certain technical requirements.



The experience of the English-language store shows that simple, lightweight applications that are affordable or completely free become the most attractive for users. At the same time, Autodesk welcomes the emergence of complex, complex developments in the Russian-language store, recommending at the same time to break them up for placement into separate modules and utilities.



The store organizers allow application authors to independently determine their pricing policy using one of three approaches: free distribution, posting demo versions of the product with reduced functionality, or selling the application, which is possible when using the developer of the international payment system PayPal. One of the important advantages of the store for application authors is access to Autodesk users directly from the company's software products. Developers get contact information for everyone who downloaded their app. This is a direct access to potential users, opening up new development opportunities for developers. In addition, we see an obvious trend of increasing revenue growth for development partners from paid applications in the online store.



Before being published in the store, all downloaded applications go through a statement that occurs at a technical level and is intended to protect users from poor-quality product and installation problems. When placed on the site of the application, natural selection takes place: the most popular programs receive the highest rating and priority places on the site.



All developers who submit their applications for review before September 14 and receive approval for placement will be awarded a cash prize of $ 100 for each application. Read more about the promotion here . The most interesting developments will also be presented at Autodesk University Russia 2013.