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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by GuiA on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:21PM (#20206925)
> A month before being removed from the App Store, the app raked in ~$45,000 in revenue. This means the product was operating at a $500,000 annual run rate.

No, this means you had a revenue of $45k over one month (congrats! It’s a number to be proud of in itself). This artificial extrapolation of sales data to get attention grabbing headlines is so frustrating.

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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by IkmoIkmo on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:31PM (#20207021)
It's not like they launched a game like flappy bird that was a one-month hype and died out after, where launch-month revenue is not indicative of annual revenue.

They released it, then iterated on it for 1.5 years, at the end of which they were generating $45k a month. If anything, there's reason to believe it'd have topped the $500k. There's no guarantees but I don't think it was disingenuous to extrapolate in this case.

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