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How to get on the 'Made for HoloLens' List.

Chris_RowsellChris_Rowsell ✭✭
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So I've submitted my HoloLens app last Thursday and by Saturday morning it had been approved and published so thank you for that I was very impressed with how quickly my app was approved however I noticed it was not appearing on the 'MADE FOR HOLOLENS' list so I contacted to support via chat and this was the response I got from customer support:

"The 'Made for Hololens' list is a ranking based list, so the app may not appear in this list until the app gains reviews and downloads"

So my question is, does anyone have advice from personal experience on how they promoted their HoloLens app and what is the number of downloads required to get on that list?

Here is my app if anyone is interested in trying it out :
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/arcology/9p7t7dt7gjrx

Thanks for your help in advance...

Chris

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    Chris_RowsellChris_Rowsell ✭✭
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    So as it turns out I just needed to be patient, Arcology, my app, is now on the made of HoloLens list. Bloody awesome!!! Thank you so much to whom ever did that! :)

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    Chris_RowsellChris_Rowsell ✭✭
    edited May 2017

    Edit: So I just did a search in this forum for 'Made For HoloLens' (which is what I should have done to start with duh :) ) and I see this question has come up before but the responses has just confused me slighty...

    This was question
    https://forums.hololens.com/discussion/2953/how-to-get-our-hololens-game-listed-in-microsoft-store-made-for-hololens-section
    and here was one of the responses

    @LaurenBissett said:
    "^ _What Angela said, except adding that I'm the one who does these collection updates, and want to confirm that you're on our radar, and will be added with our regularly scheduled weekly update. Stay tuned!"

    So is the 'Made for HoloLens' list a rank based system or a weekly manual process or a mixture of both?

    Thank you for your help...

    Chris

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    Jesse_McCullochJesse_McCulloch admin

    Hey Chris, I'm not sure who is curating that list, or if it has been automated at this point. Lauren left the team a few months ago. Last I heard it's about a once weekly process to get items into the Made for HoloLens section. As far as I know, it's not ranked or anything like that, it's just a matter of someone at Microsoft aggregating all the HoloLens apps and updating that set.

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    Chris_RowsellChris_Rowsell ✭✭

    Hi Jesse,

    Thanks for responding, I just noticed they updated the list today but my game is still not in the list, I know I'm being a little impatient but being that this is my first published HoloLens app I'm just excited :) and want to make sure it hasn't fallen between the cracks.

    I wonder who I can connect to validate this? Like I said I tried contacting MS general dev support via there chat help and they seem to think it's a rank based system but I don't think they really were sure of that.

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    Chris_RowsellChris_Rowsell ✭✭

    @Vanessa and @Jesse_McCulloch

    Lol the plot thickens, just received a support email from the Windows Store Team :
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    "We have received your feedback from Dev Center for “Arcology” and we have provided some additional information for you below.

    The various lists and sections in the Store use many factors and algorithms to determine where an app appears. We cannot guarantee that the apps will appear in the list."_

    I think they must be referring to the general Windows store, I thought the HoloLens section was a special case, right? Errghhh lol :)

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    Chris_RowsellChris_Rowsell ✭✭
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    So as it turns out I just needed to be patient, Arcology, my app, is now on the made of HoloLens list. Bloody awesome!!! Thank you so much to whom ever did that! :)

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