Whenever I submit apps, I end up visiting the apphub page frequently to see if it’s been updated.  I also visit it all the time to check on downloads.  To make this process easier, I’ve created a WP7 app to do this for me automatically and present the information in a concise list.  Marketplace Dashboard lets you sign in with your Live ID to see the status of all of your apps, along with current download numbers.  I’d like to also add the ability to show advertising numbers for each app, but I didn’t get to it in the initial release.  For now, it’s a decent app, but it updates a little slower than I’d like.  Since there isn’t a Marketplace API, I’m just doing HTML screen-scraping.  This means I’ll be fragile if/when something changes, but it also means that the data responses aren’t as small as I’d like.  I’ll see what I can do about it in the future.

One other thing, the app failed testing the first time.  I was using the official Marketplace icon (shopping bag with Windows icon) with a gauge over it for my icon.  This got rejected since I didn’t have permission for it.  Considering that there are many apps that use various third-party logos in their icon and don’t get in trouble, I didn’t expect a problem.  I guess it was just too close!