Revenue

Assume 100,000 Uniqrome users exist, including 3000 gold users, 10,000 silver users, and the rest, 87,000 bronze users. Annual gross revenue from user fees equals 3000 x 120 + 10,000 x 10 = 360,000 + 100,000 = $460,000. Assume Google/Apple receive 20%, the House receives 20%, and the app authors receive 60%. So annual net revenue equals 460,000 x 0.2 = $92,000. Since this amount is too small, assume the user count is doubled, to 200,000, and annual net revenue is $184,000. The app authors receive 60% of $920,000 = $552,000. Assume that each bronze user generates $2/year in ad revenue. Then ad revenue equals 87,000 x 2 x 2 = $348,000. So total net revenue equals 184,000 + 348,000 = $532,000.

Assume 100 app authors exist. Let b = amount received by each app author in the bottom tier. The top tier of app authors receive 10 x 20b = 200b. The 2nd tier receives 20 x 10b = 200b. The middle tier receives 20 x 5b = 100b. The 4th tier receives 20 x 2b = 40b. The bottom tier receives 30b. The sum of all tiers = 570b. Therefore b = 552,000 / 570 = $968. So the top tier of app authors receive 200b, and each app author in the top tier receives 20b = $19,368. Assume 500 app authors exist. Then b = 968 / 5 = $194, and each app author in the top tier receives $3,874.

Handwritten Uniqrome Design

The following 18 lines of text rendered in a monospaced font were originally handwritten with a ballpoint pen on a piece of notepad paper, dimensions: 4.25" x 5.5". Just before I wrote this down, I dreamed up the core idea for Uniqrome in the wee early morning hours of Monday, December 5th, 2022. I was deeply depressed all day Saturday, but it lifted on Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon I spent a lot of time reading the CBC news website as I often do.

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|    bronze:  $0: mono + 1 hue                |
|    silver:  $10/yr                          |
|    gold:    $10/mo: top 10% of apps (GBs)   |
|    metric:  user tap down/up events         |
|  _                                          |
| /  Apple/Google: 30% - 15%                  |
|<   Me:           30% - 15%                  |
| \_ Apps:         40% - 70%                  |
|                                             |
|   5 sections:                               |
|   1. Top 10%   x 20 = 200                   |
|   2. Next 20%  x 10 = 200                   |
|   3.  "         x 5 = 100                   |
|   4.  "         x 2 =  40                   |
|   5. Bottom 30% x 1 =  30                   |
|                       570                   |
|   Throttle users of apps (GB-hogs):         |
|   less CPU time of server-side code         |
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