We added coming-soon landing pages for stores you haven't shipped to yet
pleaseopen.me now detects the visitor's OS and shows a dedicated landing state for platforms you haven't shipped to — protecting store conversion data and capturing demand.
Here's a problem that's easy to miss until you actually hit it: if your redirect link sends every visitor to the same store listing regardless of what device they're on, you're quietly breaking your own data — even if you only ship to one platform.
We ran into this ourselves promoting one of our own apps, and it's why we added OS-specific landing states to pleaseopen.me.
The problem, concretely
Say your app is iOS-only. Your bio link, your ad, your QR code — wherever people are clicking from — points at one redirect, which sends everyone straight to your App Store listing. That's fine for iPhone users. For Android users, it's a dead end: they land on a page they literally cannot install from, bounce immediately, and that visit still counts as a pageview on your store listing.
That last part is the part that actually costs you. Your App Store listing's most important number — view-to-install conversion rate — is now being diluted by traffic that was never going to convert, for reasons that have nothing to do with your listing, your screenshots, or your app description. You end up second-guessing a conversion rate that isn't actually telling you what you think it's telling you.
And it's not just noisy data — it's a missed signal. Every one of those Android clicks was a person who wanted your app and couldn't get it. Sent to a dead end, that interest just evaporates. You never find out it existed.
What's new
pleaseopen.me now detects the visitor's OS and, if you haven't shipped to that platform yet, shows a dedicated landing state instead of forcing them onto a store listing they can't use. You choose what it shows:
- A demand counter — see how many people have actually hit that “not available yet” wall, so “should we build an Android version” stops being a guess
- Email capture — collect addresses to notify people at launch, or send a coupon code when you ship
- Custom link — send them somewhere else entirely: your socials, your website, a different product
- A plain placeholder — if you don't need any of the above yet, it just quietly does its job
It's free to set up alongside the redirect, same as the rest of pleaseopen.me.
Why this matters even if you only serve one store
This is the part that's easy to underestimate: you don't need to be planning a second platform for this to matter. The moment you have anyredirect link circulating publicly — in a bio, an ad, a QR code on packaging — you have no control over who clicks it. Some fraction of that traffic will always be on a platform you don't support, whether you ever build for it or not.
Without OS-specific handling, that traffic silently corrupts the one metric you're actually trying to optimize: how well your store listing converts. You might be running A/B tests on your screenshots, rewriting your description, tweaking your icon — all while a chunk of your “views” were structurally incapable of becoming installs. You're optimizing against noise without knowing it.
Separating that traffic out doesn't just protect your data — it turns a leak into an asset. Instead of losing every off-platform click for nothing, you get a real number for demand on a platform you haven't built for yet, and optionally a list of people to reach out to the moment you do.
Try it
If you're running a redirect link for an app that only lives on one platform right now, this closes a gap you probably didn't know you had. Set it up alongside your existing redirect — free, same as everything else.