How BibleBuddy grows

BibleBuddy started as a WhatsApp bot that relates a user's message to a Bible chapter, then became an app once the per-conversation fees grew too costly. Its founder struggled to make money from it with banner ads alone, but used it as one of several apps he built to a modest size and sold. The host put it at about 100K monthly active users.

• BibleBuddy first grew as a WhatsApp bot, but the WhatsApp Business API cost about $0.02 per conversation, and that expense pushed the founder to move it into an app.BibleBuddy
• It earned money only from banner ads, skipping full-screen ones, and the founder said he never monetized it properly; he later used full-screen ads in another app, Praycreen.BibleBuddy
• The founder ran X ads aimed at followers of the 20-25 most famous pastors, a channel the host called underpriced; no costs or results were given.BibleBuddy
• His approach was to build apps to about $5-10K a month and sell them; he said a BibleBuddy prospect later bought Praycreen, and about 20 people would fund his next idea.Praycreen

Summary written 2026-09-26 from the tactics below. Figures are as founders stated them.