It’s been 12 days since ek$i sözlük appeared on the App Store.

It became the top downloaded free application in the Turkish App Store on its 6th day, but it’s hard to stay on top when a free VoIP application (coughSkypecough) gets released the day after your app becomes #1.

ek$i sözlük is still #5 in the Turkish App Store, and even this is fantastic. I wrote ek$i sözlük solely for myself, and I never thought this many people would download, use and like it.

In the 12 days since I released 1.0, I already pushed a bugfix release (1.1), and I’m getting ready to push 1.2 with a new name and icon, as requested by ek$i sözlük’s lawyer (more on that in a few days).

Anyway, enough advertising.

After the release, I started receiving a lot of questions about the App Store and iPhone development in general, from people who apparently didn’t know I’d been developing for the platform for a while, or were simply impressed by ek$i sözlük’s success.

Today, I’ll try and answer one of the most frequently asked questions by sharing the sales graphs for the first 11 days. Your mileage will vary, but I assume this will give you a rough idea of what you can expect from a free, niche application:

Sales Per Day

Cumulative Sales

As always, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.