Facade Games

How I Built A Successful Business Out Of My Passion For Board Games

May 23rd, 2019
Travis Hancock
Founder, Facade Games
$30K
revenue/mo
2
Founders
2
Employees
Facade Games
from Columbus, Ohio, USA
started March 2015
$30,000
revenue/mo
2
Founders
2
Employees
market size
$48.2B
avg revenue (monthly)
$88K
starting costs
$13.7K
gross margin
40%
time to build
210 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
subscription
best tools
Quickbooks, ShipStation, Shopify
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
35 Pros & Cons
tips
9 Tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

My name is Travis Hancock and I’m the founder of Facade Games. We have published 3 board games, each disguised in book boxes.

Each of the games focuses on a city and year from history, and has some kind of lying/backstabbing involved in the gameplay. We’re currently working on game number 4 for our current series of games, as well as a new party game line.

Our games have raised over $1 million on Kickstarter, and we’ve sold about 80,000 copies of our games around the world. I work full time from home with my wife Holly. We love inventing and publishing games!

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