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Mike Katz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
112 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

Yeah, so there are two.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

One of them is called Gem Spinner, which is sort of a

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

you know, in the match three bejeweled candy crush family, but with a pretty interesting twist.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

So I was pretty proud of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

It got featured on the front page of the app store, actually back in the day when, you know, the app store opened in 2009, the Apple app store.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

And I think it was that year or early 2010 where we got featured on the, on the front page.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

And how many plays or downloads?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

let's see, I think we were charging a dollar, a dollar per day at that point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

And I remember it was about 7,000 in a day in that day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

It's called quote unquote.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

And so it's like a crossword puzzle where you get a bunch of clues, but the answers to the clues are found inside of a famous quotation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

Like an example would be Mark Twain has a quote, familiarity breeds contempt and children.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

Okay, so familiar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

So then we would take parts of those words and create a set of crossword clues where you pick out the parts of the answers in the thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

So all the answers are sitting there in front of you, but you have to figure out where in the quote, the different segments of the words.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

That was probably about 2013, 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

And that one had really great success on the Amazon website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

app store they used it as a free app of the day multiple times and so how many downloads did you get via amazon um i think it was about uh uh three thousand a day when it was featured on the on the front page free or paid it was all free because that was that was part of their deal that they would feature your app but it is free for that day so but it was it was a good publicity

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Made $7k/day, applying to B2B Now

Well, I mean, at the base level, I guess programming is programming.