Walk around campus telling students about a student marketplace app

Pat Walls… cool. Well, thanks for sharing your revenue dashboard, being open and transparent about that, especially because your app is trending and taking off right now, which we're going to talk all about that and maybe some of the reasons why this app grew so quickly. But before we do, I'm curious. This is the first app that you built? What's your background? How do you get to this point where you've made over $50,000 with an app in about 7 weeks?

Cedric RobergeYeah, so um it's not the first app I've built. I built my first one in October. It was a student marketplace app for the University of Oregon. And we just went around campus, kind of told people about it, and got like 800 users. But I've always wanted to take it like to another level where I could actually make revenue, cuz we didn't make any money with that app. The whole experience from the first app taught me that I needed to find a niche that was really specific to like a group of people that would be interested in it. So once I realized that, you know, I decided to find something that was really popular. And how I went about that was just scrolling social media until I found something that everyone was talking about and realized that there was no successful app for this.

Pat WallsAll right, yeah. I mean, I think one of the most common first business ideas when I talk to a lot of founders is building a marketplace. Obviously, that's really hard to do. It's hard to monetize. It's hard to get it to work. But an app like this, obviously, it worked out pretty quickly. So let's talk about that. We're going to talk about how you grew it. But first I want to know how did you build it, and how long did it take to go from idea to …