Flappy Bird: Hit N Run (Hes taking it down)

[Genium]

I am "pre-selling" a iPad, iPhone 5 and iPod touch, all with Flappy bird for a sum of $7,500. Going to buy the phones from the people who own them and then invest the remaining $6,000 after cost into business

 

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[smartman]

I love your initiative of trying to score quickly on this fad, but I did a deeper search of closed auctions with iphones having flappy bird on them, and I'm starting to suspect that the outrageous final bids are all shill bids. For every one phone that sells for 2k, there's 15 others that didn't get a single bid at 1500, or 1000 for that matter. I would tread very lightly if I were you. I've been burnt on things like this before(furbies, records, presale t shirts...the list is kind of too painful to revisit entirely) , and just wanted to share my wisdom and experience before you are stuck over paying for an iphone and ipad that you will lose money on when you have to liquidate to the secondary market and lose some money, let alone profits, on the seller fees.

 

[LOYD]

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_sop=16&_nkw=Flappy Bird&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc
Bird gets the worm.

Please tell me this is a joke and someone didn't really spend $10,000 on an iPhone with slight water damage just because of this game.

 

[gdup3784]

Lmao!!

 

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[oddball]

Maybe he is being truthful about it ruining his simple life. I personally see a lot of red flags right from the start, the whole thing is fishy though.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/10/no-complaints-about-flappy-bird-nintendo-says/

 

[MattCour]

The funny thing is , he didn't take down his other games which are also in the Top 20 Free on the App Store.. Strange indeed

 

[smartman]

maybe that was the trick all along. get some publicity from a game that violates some protected content and then use that to boost your other games. bands have been doing this for years with cover songs as their first hit. the world could have possibly been free and clear of the musical herpes that was Limp Bizkit if they hadn't garnered some success by covering "faith" by george Michaels

 

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[oddball]

maybe that was the trick all along. get some publicity from a game that violates some protected content and then use that to boost your other games. bands have been doing this for years with cover songs as their first hit. the world could have possibly been free and clear of the musical herpes that was Limp Bizkit if they hadn't garnered some success by covering "faith" by george Michaels

Nintendo denies any kind of action against Flappy Bird though.

 

[AroundTheWorld]

conversation that just occurred moments ago between my two teen daughters.

"Dude. Flappy birds is down"
"Yea, I can't believe it."
"Why did he take it down?"
"I heard he was getting a bunch of hate mail."
"But, look. Here is Flappy Bees."

 

[DreamMachine]

He's still making the $50k/day.

Revenue is from ad impressions and so long as people keep playing the game, he keeps getting paid. Taking it off the store simply means that nobody can install the game from scratch.

 

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[oddball]

He's still making the $50k/day.

Revenue is from ad impressions and so long as people keep playing the game, he keeps getting paid. Taking it off the store simply means that nobody can install the game from scratch.

Although I don't think he was making $50k a day from ads in the first place, he would not be making nearly as much with the game out of the store. Having his app ranked number 1 gave him a tremendous amount of new users every day so he can never have as many people playing now that the game is deleted.

 

[Genium]

I love your initiative of trying to score quickly on this fad, but I did a deeper search of closed auctions with iphones having flappy bird on them, and I'm starting to suspect that the outrageous final bids are all shill bids. For every one phone that sells for 2k, there's 15 others that didn't get a single bid at 1500, or 1000 for that matter. I would tread very lightly if I were you. I've been burnt on things like this before(furbies, records, presale t shirts...the list is kind of too painful to revisit entirely) , and just wanted to share my wisdom and experience before you are stuck over paying for an iphone and ipad that you will lose money on when you have to liquidate to the secondary market and lose some money, let alone profits, on the seller fees.

Yeah I decided to dump the idea after putting up a fake listing. I was going to wait until it sold and then buy my sisters phone. I started getting bids but then eBay took it off saying it violated owners copyrights of 3rd party applications. Oh well. 5-10 mins invested at work, no money. No loss lol.

 

[oddball]

Pretty good read.

http://mashable.com/2014/02/10/flappy-bird-story/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

 

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[Gale4rc]

Pretty good read.

http://mashable.com/2014/02/10/flappy-bird-story/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

After seeing this, it definitely looks like the product made itself successful. The guy did literally 0 marketing, it just had a high viral factor where if you played it, you wanted to talk about it because you hated it. So for that reason it grew fast by itself. IMO.

 

[Silverhawk851]

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-flappy-birds-shut-down-2014-2

Seems like he really couldn't take the negative feedback from people. I can only imagine thousands of people telling them they ruined his life.

He should read TMF and realize those are just sidewalkers blaming others for their own inability Matter of fact I'll buy him a copy.

 

[AroundTheWorld]

Pretty good read.

http://mashable.com/2014/02/10/flappy-bird-story/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

Yes... thanks for this.

He talks about the use of his "name" quite a bit.

I wonder if it is a cultural thing. I don't know Vietnamese culture, but there are some cultures in
which it isn't acceptable to seek or receive individual attention. Also, in some cultures your name
your family name / respect of your ancestors is paramount.

 

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[teabag]

Capitalizing...
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_nkw=Flappy Bird&_sop=16

Are these people serious...

 

[AllenCrawley]

Are these people serious...

Reminds me of the twinkies getting pulled off the market. People selling truck loads of twinkies for $20k. People bid on them just to say they were a part of it but no one actually bought them.

I believe anyone with the game could upload the file to the internet and make it available to everyone to download once again - all for free.

EDIT:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iosapps/how-get-round-ban-install-flappy-bird-on-iphone-3501412/

 

[perdanny]

Sick, was about to reskin the game but instead tried to push some ideas with a friend about making kids apps, seems like the guy is too lazy i'm after 11 hours of work and he done close to nothing and expect me to do the rest of the job, not exactly the right place but had to share

 

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[splok]

Here's the perspective of a long-term, successful indie dev: http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.no/2014/02/why-indie-developers-go-insane.html

Quite insightful compared to most of the articles being written imo.

 

[gdup3784]

Sick, was about to reskin the game but instead tried to push some ideas with a friend about making kids apps, seems like the guy is too lazy i'm after 11 hours of work and he done close to nothing and expect me to do the rest of the job, not exactly the right place but had to share

 

[TopChef]

I don't buy the producer of Flappy Bird could not take the attention. We are looking at this situation from our own perspective, not his.

Isn't Vietnam still a Communist country? So if this guy was bringing in 50k a day, how much would he be able to keep? Maybe if you are making 1k a day amongst several games you can hide your profits. Making money slowly could have given this guy the time to set up offshore bank accounts. But what happens when you are making 50k a day overnight and your name appears on national news outlets and you live in a communist country?

Maybe some government officials started wondering where all the money was. Maybe everyone in the entire country found out this guy was loaded and started putting pressure on him to pony up. Mafia? Who knows.

Everything tells me this guy is a real entrepreneur and would have loved to push his game to 100k a day. But he never anticipated in his wildest dreams that too much success was something to plan for too.

 

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[Silverhawk851]

But what happens when you are making 50k a day overnight and your name appears on national news outlets and you live in a communist country?

Never thought of it from that angle. I've been in countries where socio-political factors can make or break you. Mostly break. And mostly Kneecaps, lol.

Could very well be the case. I doubt this is the last we'll hear of this guy.

 

[100k]

The guy took his own life....

http://huzlers.com/creator-flappy-bird-commits-suicide-minutes-removing-flappy-bird-app-store/

But some of the commenters think its a hoax. I dunno.

 

[Vespasian]

The guy took his own life....

http://huzlers.com/creator-flappy-bird-commits-suicide-minutes-removing-flappy-bird-app-store/

But some of the commenters think its a hoax. I dunno.

http://huzlers.com/mcdonalds-exposed-for-using-human-meat/
http://huzlers.com/stevie-wonder-agrees-to-box-george-zimmerman-in-celebrity-boxing-match/

Yeah, looks like a legit news site, totally not satire.

 

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[100k]

http://huzlers.com/mcdonalds-exposed-for-using-human-meat/
http://huzlers.com/stevie-wonder-agrees-to-box-george-zimmerman-in-celebrity-boxing-match/

Yeah, looks like a legit news site, totally not satire.

Hmm... that's strange satire -_-. I guess nothing is off limits now a days.

 

[teabag]

The guy took his own life....

http://huzlers.com/creator-flappy-bird-commits-suicide-minutes-removing-flappy-bird-app-store/

But some of the commenters think its a hoax. I dunno.

huzlers is a satirical site, I wouldn't take anything they say to be accurate

 

[Tommy92l]

Could it be that he really does just want his simple life back? It's like with a girl that you want to notice you. Once she ends up talking to you and begins to feel attraction, you're like - ok, validation confirmed, don't want her anymore.

Sounds like a bad example, but people MUST have felt the same way with success.

 

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[teabag]

Could it be that he really does just want his simple life back? It's like with a girl that you want to notice you. Once she ends up talking to you and begins to feel attraction, you're like - ok, validation confirmed, don't want her anymore.

Sounds like a bad example, but people MUST have felt the same way with success.

I quite like that analogy!

 

[Vespasian]

Ca-Ching! Money in tha bank!

Just had to quote myself and post an update:

#1 has been released 2 days ago.
You can have a clone coded for less than 1k USD in one working day. Just outsource it.
Most developers that are riding the Flappy Bird wave are a one-man-army and I bet that a lot of people on this forum have better marketing skills than them.

Stuff like this happens all the time, this is just an extreme example due to the minimalistic gamedesign.
Clever entrepreneurs will learn from this and will be banking the next time a trend like this emerges.