WDET
46
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ GetAppValue analysis
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WDET is an Android app from Wayne State University in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 3.6★ across 114 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 46: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News & Magazines app, that means early traction worth watching. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙ News & Magazines complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$33K |
Total estimate
$95K
👥 Estimated audience size
13K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.0K
Daily active
900
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 News & Magazines engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News & Magazines D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 40/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
5.0
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
9.0
Founder Strength
3.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.58★ across 114 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 304d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $9K-$16K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (114 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- WDET
- Developer
- Wayne State University
- Bundle ID
- com.jacobsmedia.WDET
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News & Magazines
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- wdet.org
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $57/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
WDET’s news and music goes wherever you go in the new WDET mobile app.
• Stream WDET Live using our adaptive bit-rate stream that is clearer and more reliable
• Daily local news rundowns from WDET’s Jerome Vaughn, Amy Miller and Pat Batcheller
• Play hand-picked playlists by hosts like Jon Moshier, Nick Austin & Chris Campbell on demand
• Launch the latest segments from WDET’s Detroit Today & Redline
• A one-stop shop to listen to your favorite podcasts like Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, This American Life, and WDET’s very own The Beginning of the End… View full description on the official store →
• Stream WDET Live using our adaptive bit-rate stream that is clearer and more reliable
• Daily local news rundowns from WDET’s Jerome Vaughn, Amy Miller and Pat Batcheller
• Play hand-picked playlists by hosts like Jon Moshier, Nick Austin & Chris Campbell on demand
• Launch the latest segments from WDET’s Detroit Today & Redline
• A one-stop shop to listen to your favorite podcasts like Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, This American Life, and WDET’s very own The Beginning of the End… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v5.0.3🔄 updated 0d ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free📺 Ad-supported
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — wdet.org
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Meta (Facebook) Ads
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for WDET: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 114 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does WDET make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, WDET earns approximately $233/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
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Who makes WDET?▴
WDET is published by Wayne State University on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is WDET's BU Score?▴
WDET has a BU Score of 46/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.