app-store-featured
by Eronredapp-store-featured helps Product Marketing, founders, and growth leads plan an Apple App Store featuring pitch. It focuses on Apple’s editorial lens: design quality, Apple technology adoption, story, timing, stability, and feature-worthy positioning. Use it to assess readiness, identify gaps, and refine your submission narrative before a launch or update.
This skill scores 74/100, which means it is a credible listing candidate with useful workflow guidance, but directory users should expect some limitations in supporting materials and be ready to supply app-specific context. It is clear enough to help an agent start a featured-app strategy discussion faster than a generic prompt.
- Strong triggerability: the frontmatter explicitly targets users asking about being featured on the App Store and related phrases like "App of the Day" and "Today tab".
- Operational workflow is present: it tells the agent to ask for App ID, prior featuring, upcoming updates, and Apple-tech adoption before advising.
- Substantive guidance content: the body includes Apple editorial factors, a feature pitch checklist, and a content/format structure rather than placeholder text.
- No support files or references are provided, so claims about Apple's editorial process are not backed by external docs in the repo.
- The skill depends on user-supplied app context and even references a missing `app-marketing-context.md`, which may create some friction on first use.
Overview of app-store-featured skill
The app-store-featured skill helps you plan, evaluate, and pitch an app for Apple editorial featuring on the App Store. It is best for Product Marketing, founders, and growth leads who need a practical answer to: “What would make Apple feature this app, and what should we fix or emphasize first?”
This app-store-featured skill is not a generic ASO checklist. It focuses on Apple’s editorial lens: design quality, Apple technology adoption, story, timeliness, stability, and the presence of a clear feature-worthy angle. Use it when you need decision support before a launch, update, or outreach push.
Best fit for featuring strategy
Choose app-store-featured when the goal is to assess featuring readiness, shape a submission narrative, or identify gaps that block editorial attention. It is especially useful if you already have an app live and want a realistic read on whether it has a credible featuring case.
What it helps you decide
The skill helps answer whether the app has a strong enough product story, whether the timing is right, and what evidence matters most to Apple. For app-store-featured for Product Marketing, that means turning an app description into a sharper editorial pitch.
When it is not the right tool
If you only need keyword tuning, screenshots, or metadata cleanup, a pure ASO workflow is usually a better fit. If you are planning a launch calendar or launch assets, use a launch-focused skill instead of app-store-featured.
How to Use app-store-featured skill
Install and open the right file
Install with npx skills add Eronred/aso-skills --skill app-store-featured. Then open skills/app-store-featured/SKILL.md first. Because this repo has no helper scripts or reference folders, the skill file is the primary source of truth for app-store-featured install and usage.
Give the skill the inputs Apple would care about
Start with the app’s App ID, then include whether it has been featured before, what is launching soon, and which Apple technologies it uses. A strong prompt looks like: “Assess 1234567890 for App Store featuring. We have a major v2 release in three weeks, use SwiftUI and WidgetKit, 4.7 rating, no previous featuring, and we want the strongest editorial angle.”
Read the workflow in the right order
Use the skill’s assessment flow first, then map its editorial factors to your app. The most useful sequence is: confirm app context, identify the feature-worthy story, check Apple tech fit, then review launch timing and stability. This keeps app-store-featured usage anchored to what can actually improve featuring odds.
Adapt the guidance to your assets
Treat the skill as a decision framework, not a copy-paste template. If your app is weak on one factor, compensate with clearer story framing, stronger product positioning, or better release timing. If the app has no obvious Apple feature tie-in, the skill should help you see that early.
app-store-featured skill FAQ
Is app-store-featured only for large apps?
No. Smaller apps can still be a fit if they have a clear story, high polish, and a distinctive use of Apple platforms. The app-store-featured skill is useful for judging whether a smaller team has the right evidence to make a serious pitch.
How is this different from ordinary prompting?
A normal prompt may produce generic advice. app-store-featured guide output is more useful when you need an editorial-minded evaluation with explicit questions about launch timing, featured history, and Apple technology adoption.
What should I prepare before using it?
Have your App ID, current App Store rating, recent release notes, screenshots or positioning notes, and any upcoming launch dates ready. Those inputs reduce guesswork and make the app-store-featured usage more actionable.
When should I not use it?
Do not use it as a substitute for fixing a broken product, weak onboarding, or poor review scores. If the app is unstable or the story is unclear, the skill will be most useful as a reality check rather than a promotion engine.
How to Improve app-store-featured skill
Give it a sharper editorial brief
The best outputs come from concise, concrete context: app category, target audience, launch date, feature history, rating, and the Apple tech stack. “We want featuring” is too vague; “We are launching a health app with Live Activities, a major redesign, and a seasonal angle” is much better.
Surface the real constraints early
Mention what cannot change, such as release timing, engineering capacity, or brand rules. The app-store-featured skill can only improve a pitch if it knows whether the app can ship new Apple-native features, update screenshots, or align with a specific event window.
Ask for gaps, not just praise
A useful app-store-featured guide should point out what blocks featuring: weak differentiation, stale design, missing Apple platform usage, or poor timing. Ask for “top three reasons Apple would pass” and “the one change most likely to improve odds” to get more decision value.
Iterate after the first pass
Use the first response to choose a direction, then come back with stronger evidence: updated ratings, new feature details, or a refined story angle. app-store-featured install is most valuable when the second prompt is narrower and more factual than the first.