8 Social Media App Business Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: November 19th, 2023

Start A Social Media App Business

Here are some real life success stories of starting a social media app business:

1. OneUp ($1.2M/year)

Davis Baer, the co-founder of OneUp, came up with the idea for the social media scheduling tool after experiencing the dissatisfaction and boredom of working in the corporate finance world. He wanted to create a tool that would automate time-consuming tasks and help businesses increase visibility on social media. Baer used unorthodox marketing techniques, such as creating a spreadsheet comparing 90 different scheduling tools, to attract and retain customers.

How much they make: $1.2M/year
Current team size: 4

How Davis Baer Used Unorthodox Marketing To Reach $1,000 MRR

OneUp is a social media scheduling tool that helps businesses make more money by automating time-consuming tasks, allowing you to schedule Google My Business, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn posts, with the unique feature of allowing for posts to be set on repeat automatically.

About

Davis started OneUp about 8 years ago

Revenue

Davis grew the business to $100K/month

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2. MiloTreeCart ($72K/year)

Jillian Leslie, co-founder of MiloTree Easy Payments, came up with the idea while running her first online company, Catch My Party. She needed to grow her Pinterest followers for traffic and monetization and built the MiloTree pop-up app to solve that problem. Based on the success and feedback from their own experience, they expanded MiloTree to help other bloggers and creators grow their real followers on multiple platforms.

How much they make: $72K/year
How much did it cost to start: $1.5K
Current team size: 2

We Solved Our Own Problem And Built An App That Helps Grow Your Social Media Following [$72K/Year]

Jillian Leslie launched two businesses, Catch My Party and MiloTree, to grow her social media followers and monetize her content, and recently launched MiloTree Easy Payments, a platform to help creators monetize their expertise, which is projected to generate $40k ARR by year's end.

About

Jillian started MiloTreeCart almost 3 years ago

Revenue

Jillian grew the business to $6K/month

Costs

It cost Jillian $1500 to start the business

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So... can you actually make money with a social media app business?

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4. HootSuite

Enhance your social media management with Hootsuite, the leading social media dashboard. Manage multiple networks and profiles and measure your campaign results.

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Website traffic: 7.66M/month

5. SocialPilot

SocialPilot - Social media marketing tool to increase brand awareness & traffic. We have tailored social media scheduling automation for marketers.

Website traffic: 470K/month

So... can you actually make money with a social media app business?

Of course. There are millions to be made in this industry.

But how?

Research real, profitable businesses and see exactly how much money they make.
Study exactly what works, and what doesn’t.
Take action, because now you have the roadmap.

Join Starter Story and build your next big thing:

Start Now

7. Signal Messenger

Website traffic: 3.72M/month

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