Highrise is a social-first game, built on an architecture that combines a smooth user experience with the capabilities of a real game engine.

Highrise is a social-first MMO where players create avatars, build apartments, and engage in user-generated worlds and challenges.

There is a significant difference between apps that generate high traffic and those that generate revenue, with only 40% overlap between the two lists of top apps.

We raised over $100 million in funding and have tens of millions of users, with over 100,000 daily active users.

Apps with smaller user bases tend to generate more revenue per user, indicating that niche applications can be financially successful even with fewer users.

In designing Highrise, we focused on creating an experience that feels like both an app and a game, which is crucial for user engagement.

Laravel has grown tremendously, from a few downloads per day to a quarter million downloads daily, showcasing the strength of the community.

After launching, we grew from reaching about a hundred thousand people a month to a million and a half a month.

Our first project was built in one weekend, quickly gained traction with 600 users per minute without marketing, and I almost deleted the Captions app due to its $10,000 monthly cost, but instead designed a paywall to see if users would pay for it, allowing us to keep it running without incurring costs.