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Cody Ko sold his viral app to a Palo Alto startup for $50,000, then built paid versions that made $200,000 in the first week. Sequels followed. Total haul: around half a million dollars.
Cody Ko sold his viral app to a Palo Alto startup for $50,000, then built paid versions that made $200,000 in the first week. Sequels followed. Total haul: around half a million dollars.
I got an email from a CEO of a startup in Palo Alto, and he was like, hey, saw your app, I love it, I want to hire you and buy the app. And I was like, perfect, yeah, that worked out. They acquired the app, I think it was like for $50K, half in cash, half in stock. My first job was to make an iCapThat Plus, which was the paid version, right? We launched it and immediately it made $200 grand, and I was like, damn it. Wow, damn it, you should have just done this by myself. You're early to the Plus train. There wasn't Apple Plus, ESPN Plus. I invented that. Yeah, and so then we I'd Cap That 2, and then we made I'd Cap That 2 Plus, and we just milked this thing. How much of this do you think the whole thing made? Like half a million bucks.
