Gikken

How We Started A $18K/Month App And Browser Extensions Development Business

February 17th, 2021
Alex Chernikov
Founder, Gikken
$18.6K
revenue/mo
2
Founders
1
Employees
Gikken
from Berlin, Germany
started
$18,635
revenue/mo
2
Founders
1
Employees
market size
$188B
avg revenue (monthly)
$41K
starting costs
$19.4K
gross margin
83%
time to build
300 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
content-library
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time investment
Full time
pros & cons
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

I’m Alex, the co-founder and CEO of Gikken /'gɪk ən/. We made a few apps and browser extensions used by 800,000 people every month. We’re (yet) small, profitable, and based in Europe’s most interesting city—Berlin, Germany.

Our flagship product is what we started with—Mate Translate. It’s a translator app that perfectly integrates with iOS, macOS, and all major browsers. Unlike mainstream translators like Google or DeepL, we’re targeting a smaller niche of language enthusiasts who translate really a lot. They want to just double click on a word, without having to copy-paste it into another tab, and then switch back. That’s what we offer—instant translations in any app and on any website without interrupting the workflow. And it saves our users many hours every week.

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