Posted by Tom Heien on Nov 18, 2022

Fast Info

Title of Startup: ZoZo App
12 months Based: 2022
Web site: ZoZo App
Kind of firm: Productiveness App
HQ Location: Baltimore, MD

 

Startup Founders:

AJ Picard – a solo founder doesn’t have a selected function they do all the pieces which is what I’m doing.

Startup one-liner:

Get entry to the pictures, hyperlinks & recordsdata you wish to share at any time by means of Keyboard Shortcuts.

Drawback the startup solves:

The difficulty of getting to seek for particular items of content material to share, whether or not that’s your favourite photograph, web site hyperlink in your startup or a marketing strategy pdf.

As a substitute it can save you this content material to a Keyboard Shortcut that permits you to share this content material each time you could.

Progress and present standing:

Launched within the App Retailer on 9/28 and since then:

– #3 Product of the day on Product Hunt
– 350 Whole Customers
– 60 Common Every day energetic Customers
– $200+ Whole Income Generated
– $21 Month-to-month Reoccurring Income

What’s a loopy story concerning the startup?:

So this can be a fairly loopy story really. In November of 2021 College of Albany partnered with this program the place you may submit your app concepts and if chosen a gaggle of scholars would construct it for you in a semester.

ZoZo finally ends up getting picked and the scholars begin constructing the app in January 2021. In Might 2021 they handed over what they mentioned was the completed app… sadly the app barely labored and the standard / efficiency was very poor.

So, I began constructing in public on Twitter showcasing what I may do with the present construct. I posted a recording of me utilizing ZoZo in a Twitter Shortcut Neighborhood and a developer (I’ll hold his title personal) reached out asking to assist work on ZoZo. I by means of this dev a small lump sum of money and so they started working cleansing up the prevailing construct.

Quick ahead to August and we’ve got a public beta. We have been in a position to drive 300 beta Customers into the app for testing which helped us get a ton of suggestions. We iterated after which launch on 9/28.

What’s an organization the startup appears to be like as much as, and why?:

Apple is and at all times would be the firm we glance as much as. They innovate and are at all times design targeted. Apple Shortcuts has an enormous group behind it and the place I acquired some inspiration when constructing ZoZo. We’re at present engaged on the power so as to add ZoZo as an choice to make use of in Apples Shortcut app.

The corporate in 4 years shall be…

ZoZo in 4 years shall be getting acquired by Apple who will enable us entry into their iOS in order that we will have full freedom when constructing absolutely custom-made Keyboard Shortcuts.

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