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Re: The Launch Diary: Three months left to save our startup

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Post by rsendv » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:05 PM UTC

rsendv wrote: post #5

Subscribing to the feed and looking forward to following your progress. Good luck!

Heads up on the RSS feed, the URL provided (http://blog.launch-diary.com/7wc9au7y1) is not available.

Re: The Launch Diary: Three months left to save our startup

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Post by adamsch » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:06 PM UTC

Love the honesty! Good luck and I hope we'll see a "How Brutal Honesty Saved My Startup" post in 3 months.

Re: The Launch Diary: Three months left to save our startup

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Post by andersdrage » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:09 PM UTC

How many are on staff and what are the salaries? I'm just wondering since it's seems that you could cut some of the cost and keep up longer, if that's what it takes?

Re: The Launch Diary: Three months left to save our startup

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Post by butwhy » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:25 PM UTC

100k downloads per month to make a living. I don't know a lot about the app ecosystem but that seems like low profitability. ie. relying on something taking off with hundreds of thousands of people to only make a conservative amount of cash.

Re: The Launch Diary: Three months left to save our startup

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Post by calgaryeng » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:29 PM UTC

What are they burning $500/day on?

Re: The Launch Diary: Three months left to save our startup

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Post by mrborgen » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:38 PM UTC

butwhy wrote: post #14

100k downloads per month to make a living. I don't know a lot about the app ecosystem but that seems like low profitability. ie. relying on something taking off with hundreds of thousands of people to only make a conservative amount of cash.

That might be. 100K just based upon our stats from previous apps, and how well we managed to monetize those.

but 100K is indeed not that much. How much would you say it costs top buy that kind of downloads?

Re: The Launch Diary: Three months left to save our startup

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Post by mrborgen » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:39 PM UTC

calgaryeng wrote: post #15

What are they burning $500/day on?

We are three employees, and living in Norway is not cheap. Our salaries are way below what you'd make if you worked in a kindergarden or a grocery store for example.

Plus office rent and various software expenses.

Re: The Launch Diary: Three months left to save our startup

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Post by zimpenfish » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:41 PM UTC

calgaryeng wrote: post #15

What are they burning $500/day on?

Presumably office rent and salaries.

Re: The Launch Diary: Three months left to save our startup

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Post by djfumberger » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 4:09 PM UTC

Good luck to the guys. I released a similar app a few months ago - Beatwave (http://beatwave.co). We've just hit 1.2 million downloads so the download numbers they're after are fairy realistic I think. Just have to make sure the monetization is spot on to capitalize though!

Re: The Launch Diary: Three months left to save our startup

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Post by dagvonkr » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 4:26 PM UTC

djfumberger wrote: post #19

Good luck to the guys. I released a similar app a few months ago - Beatwave ( http://beatwave.co ). We've just hit 1.2 million downloads so the download numbers they're after are fairy realistic I think. Just have to make sure the monetization is spot on to capitalize though!

Thanks! We're big fans of Beatwave! Great to hear that this type of app has gained a lot of downloads. We've spent hours discussing and trying out different monetization models, but you'll never know until it's been launched in the end.