Messenger for Desktop

How I Developed A $1.5K/Month Facebook Messenger App For Desktop

October 9th, 2020
Alexandru Rosianu
$1.5K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
0
Employees
Messenger for Des...
from
started March 2015
$1,500
revenue/mo
1
Founders
0
Employees
market size
$4.03B
avg revenue (monthly)
$2.99K
starting costs
$19.4K
gross margin
83%
time to build
300 days
growth channels
SEO
business model
content-library
best tools
Google Drive, Digital Ocean, Heroku
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
34 Pros & Cons
tips
2 Tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hey! I'm Alexandru and I built Messenger for Desktop, a simple app that lets you use Facebook Messenger from your Mac or Windows computer.

It began as a side-project 5 years ago, after which I was lucky to be able to turn it into a small business. Since then, Messenger for Desktop has had over 10 million downloads and currently, there are 100,000+ monthly active users.

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What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?

Messenger for Desktop was born in May 2015. Back then I was attending high school in Romania and had a lot of free time.

People would always reach out to me with great feedback about what they liked and what they’d like to have.

My light bulb moment was when...

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