Viral apps: Maker origin

Cases
14
Median Spread Score
36
Most started on
App stores57%
First post to peak
147 days

By mechanic

All56Shareable output33Controversy26Maker origin14Dupe economy12Pairing12Newsjacking6

Houseparty

61
The Houseparty screen for connecting a Fortnite account.

28M downloads a month

Locket Widget

52
Official Locket graphic showing friends’ photos inside the home-screen widget

10M downloads a month

Spotify Pie

48
Darren Huang’s Spotify Pie, with genre slices and ranked favorite artists.

Lovable

46
Current Lovable dashboard with the prompt field and project cards, from the official documentation

$600M revenue

Instafest

40
Official screenshot of Instafest’s later iPhone app and its festival-poster interface.

6M users

Peach

39
Official Peach App Store screenshot showing the social app interface.

Peaked at #9

Gas app

36
Gas: The social app for teens designed to spread positivity | Fox Business Video

$11M revenue

NGL app

34
Official NGL App Store screenshot showing a question card shared over an Instagram Story.

125M users

David's Disposable

33
Dispo 2.0

Peaked at #1

Turbo (TURBO)

30
Turbo Token — RHETT MANKIND

Lapse (2023 relaunch)

29
Lapse social photo-journal screens supplied with its funding announcement.

$0 revenue

Byte

12

Peaked at #1

Linux’s announcement and contributor response

10

The Million Dollar Homepage

10
The Million Dollar Homepage’s completed advertising-pixel grid. Completed campaign grid retained on the original website; later state, not the launch-day grid.

$1M revenue

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