GrowthBench Mobile

ShipScore = the CENTS composite. C = control vs gatekeepers · E = barriers (high is good) · N = proven demand · T = income detached from hours · S = reach

At $25/mo (assumed category price), you need 3,334 subscribers for a $1M/yr pace.

Nearest tracked rivals on that curve:

• RevenueCat — Publishes the definitive State of Subscription Apps benchmarks free, sitting on the actual payment data.
• Appfigures / Sensor Tower — Established ASO and market-intelligence dashboards with years of app-store data and paid indie tiers.
• AppSprint (radar, $8k MRR) — Nearest tracked competitor already monetising indie mobile growth tooling at 4x your likely first-year run rate.

• Zero Reddit demand signals found for these keywords — no observable complaint or search pull.
• Radar tracks only 3 similar products; verified MRR tops out at $11k (WriteStack), $8k (AppSprint) — modest ceilings.
• Weakest tracked peer sits at $2k MRR with CENTS 4.4, suggesting the niche punishes thin tooling.
• No funded companies tracked in-space: could mean unproven demand as easily as open field.

• Cold-start data problem: benchmarks are worthless until hundreds of devs share revenue data they consider secret.
• Free, better-sourced benchmark reports from payment infrastructure players make $25/mo hard to justify.
• Correlation-not-causation: 'levers that correlate with $50k MRR' is survivorship bias devs will call out.
• Target buyer (indie dev scaling past $50k MRR) is a very small global population.

• Apple App Store Connect / Google Play Developer API terms — Restricting third-party aggregation or sharing of app revenue data removes your entire data supply.
• RevenueCat expanding its free benchmarks into an interactive dashboard — One product release makes your paid tier redundant overnight, with superior first-party data.
• Data-sharing consent/privacy pushback from contributing developers — If devs refuse to pool revenue figures, the benchmark has no denominator and dies.

• Cannot tell whether indie devs would actually consent to sharing revenue data for aggregation.
• Cannot verify how many apps globally sit near the $50k MRR threshold — your addressable buyer count.
• Cannot assess whether you have privileged data access or founder credibility in the indie mobile scene.

Scores judge the market and business model — not your ability to execute. Verified MRR = independently tracked revenue; reviews/upvotes = platform-reported. Judged 2026-08-02.

Skip the generic dashboard; run a paid teardown cohort where 30 devs pool real numbers and get personalised lever recommendations — earn the dataset before selling access to it.

Cheapest next step: Post one free benchmark analysis using publicly available RevenueCat/Appfigures data in r/iOSProgramming and indie dev Slack groups; count how many ask for a paid, personalised version this week.

Business-model variations of this idea, engineered to beat 4.6 — different vertical, audience, model, or wedge. Same harsh scale.

App Radar scans TrustMRR, Product Hunt, AppSumo, the App Store, Reddit and X daily — momentum, beatable apps, funding heat.