My Social Media App Makes $20K/Month

Who are you and what business did you start?

My name is Ben and I built the first fully Instagram complaint Instagram Unfollower tracking app. The app is called FollowBuddy and our customers range from the average Instagram user wondering who their real friends are to a business owner looking to clean up their IG following list.

FollowBuddy is unique in that it is the only fully compliant app that shows you who unfollowed you on instagram. Other apps are violating Instagram's TOS and users of these apps are at risk of losing their instagram account just from using them. They have bought fake reviews to hide this fact and thousands of people each month are paying for a scam. E.g https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reports-unfollowers-follower/id1481469888 (read their actual reviews). These scam apps are why we built FollowBuddy in the first place. As a social media strategist I was getting dozens of emails from people freaking out that they lost their IG after using one of these apps. So eventually we built FollowBuddy and making it happen was a wild story but I am happy to say we now bring in over $20k a month.

How do you come up with the idea for FollowBuddy ?

The idea for the app came from all of the...