Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoTo be fair, i paid like $3, 10 years ago… So, not a great revenue stream for the developer
Obviously selling to an ad company is not good, but i’m not sure what the alternative is in a world where everyone expects everything for free
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
For context Nova Prime has over 5+ million paying users, and it’s $6 when I check the Play Store.
The dev was just a single guy, who later hired someone to help with support and artwork. But if $30 million in revenue wasn’t good enough, I’m not sure what else you could expect.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
while still a lot of money, keep in mind, a decent amount of those downloads was bought on sale. in my own personal context, i only had bought it when it was 1$
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
For sure, fair point. But we’re still talking millions, and far more than the guy was making at his previous, full-time job. In an interview, he said all he needed was $100 / day in sales to quit his full-time job… obviously, he exceeded that. LOL
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
hence why i mentioned it was still a lot of money just liekly not on that magnitude given both price cut sales and googles 30% cut of sales.
at bare minimum, the dev has at least made 5 million probably post taxes for sure.
DrM@feddit.de 5 months ago
Yeah, I bought it for 10ct
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Had no idea about the user base numbers. I withdraw my objections lol