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Wordfeud-creator receives 75 thousand dollars a day on their app. Two weeks after the launch said he was up on his job.
28-year-old Norwegian Hakon Bertheussen was not in his wildest dreams
have imagined that his app Wordfeud would become such a money machine.
I was hoping you it was going to make some money on the app when I started, and have Wordfeud as my moonlighting, says Hakon Bertheussen to Dagens Industri Weekend.
Wordfeud spreading like wildfire among mobile users. And Bertheussen resigned from IT company Atmel.
The reason for the success app was simply that he had seen others
succeed in making successful apps for smart phones and want to see for
yourself if he could pull it off, reports the DI Weekend.
After the app team up on Apple's App Store had 10 000 people for one
day, without any marketing, downloaded the program. There were Wordfeud
in English and Norwegian. Later, the Swedish version made smash hit.
Hakon Bertheussen have a close eye on what happens to his app. In his
most recent statistics, 690,000 downloads made, reports the DI Weekend.
The bulk of the revenue comes from advertising. The second leg is a
commercial-free premium version, which costs 22 dollars to download.
That makes 3000 people a day, of which 2 000 Swedes.
His company Bert
Huss IT sales turnover of 75 thousand dollars a day, that is just over 2
million dollars a month, writes DI Weekend.
The pace seems to have screwed up. About 3000 people downloading the pay
version of the app every day becomes just 66,000 dollars a day and on
the most profitable leg pull in atminstande as much, it will be over SEK
130 000 as Affarsvarlden calculations. There are plans to make a
Facebook version, so that in the future to play Wordfeud also on the
computer, type DI Weekend.
There are a lot of money. But I have high costs and work hard every day.
I have no idea how long people will play Wordfeud, says 28-year-old to
DI Weekend.
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