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The biggest app in the whole wide world

An app store trophy sitting on a pile of phones.

Last summer, Bria Sullivan was getting ready to launch her app, an adorable companion called Focus Friend meant to help people manage their screen time. Her outlandish dream was to get 100,000 downloads. She’d been building the app with Hank Green, a creator with a huge audience, so she thought maybe, maybe, Focus Friend could be a top-10 app in the productivity category. Even that felt like a stretch, though. “Our category has ChatGPT, it has Google,” she says. “I mean, productivity includes Gmail!”

Sullivan initially dropped the app into the iOS App Store without really telling anyone. But in August, thanks to a lot of promotion from Gr …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/876196/top-app-store-apps-developers

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/876196/top-app-store-apps-developers

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