Hey: Chat & Make Friends
46
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ GetAppValue analysis
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Hey: Chat & Make Friends is an Android app from Techscreator in the Social category, currently rated 3.3★ across 394 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 Social 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID 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
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Social complexity ×1.70 | +$41K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$55K |
Total estimate
$155K
👥 Estimated audience size
35K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
8.7K
Daily active
4.7K
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
| 📲 Social engagement | ~90 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Social D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
54% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 45/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
4.6
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
8.1
Operational Safety
5.0
Founder Strength
4.4
Monetization Maturity
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.3★ across 394 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2061d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (2061d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Below-average rating (3.3★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (394 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
- Hey: Chat & Make Friends
- Developer
- Techscreator
- Bundle ID
- com.techcreator.ananduarkaj.Hey
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Techscreatordev.github.io
- 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
- $0.99 - $2.99 per item
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
Hey helps you find new people around the world , share your interests and make new friends with foreigners . It’s fun, friendly !
Through Hey App, you can learn a new culture and be friends with strangers . Meet new friends and socialize NOW .
Make new Friends App
Major features :
Searching people by language , country or interest, You can meet different people from all over the world.
Live Talk With Thousands of Strangers abroad( Worldtalk )
Get Conversation Starter's For Introverts
Play Games And Enjoy Making Friends… View full description on the official store →
Through Hey App, you can learn a new culture and be friends with strangers . Meet new friends and socialize NOW .
Make new Friends App
Major features :
Searching people by language , country or interest, You can meet different people from all over the world.
Live Talk With Thousands of Strangers abroad( Worldtalk )
Get Conversation Starter's For Introverts
Play Games And Enjoy Making Friends… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Hey: Chat & Make Friends: 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: 394 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Hey make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Hey earns approximately $322/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 Hey?▴
Hey is published by Techscreator 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 Hey's BU Score?▴
Hey 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.