Starving Student Card App
54
Quality Score
Solid
Starving Student Card App
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Starving Student Card App is an iOS app from Cade Humphrey in the Shopping category, currently rated 3.6★ across 47 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 54: Solid (established niche player). For a Shopping app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3 months at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $425K · 13× MRR multiple
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~5.0× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
13× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
2.9
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.6★ across 47 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($24K/mo combined) commands premium.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (47 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v2.0.1
Added push notifications and updated packages
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Starving Student Card App
- Developer
- Cade Humphrey
- Bundle ID
- com.suwdesign.student
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Starving Student App
- Description
- As Seen on
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $24.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#61 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- 435) 705-1976 (435
- Contact page
- sscdeals.com/contact-us
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth47 ratings+4600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (20 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #61 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#61 now · best #59 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
SSCDeals by Starving Student Card - the Popular Savings Card that Supports Schools and Students is now available on your iPhone.
Over 200,000 cards sold!
The Starving Student Card for IOS on the iPhone is a fast and simple platform to HUGE Discounts and Savings all while supporting your local schools. If you like access to Hundreds of Dollars in Free Stuff and BOGO’s (Buy One Get One Free) then this is the APP to download.
Your Favorite School Fund Raising Platform is now available in an IOS APP.… View full description on the official store →
Over 200,000 cards sold!
The Starving Student Card for IOS on the iPhone is a fast and simple platform to HUGE Discounts and Savings all while supporting your local schools. If you like access to Hundreds of Dollars in Free Stuff and BOGO’s (Buy One Get One Free) then this is the APP to download.
Your Favorite School Fund Raising Platform is now available in an IOS APP.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 38 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v2.0.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.67 → 3.59 (improved 0.92★)
2022-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.25 → 2.80 (improved 0.55★)
2020-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.33 → 2.25 (improved 0.92★)
2020-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.50 (improved 0.50★)
2020-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — sscdeals.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.59574★ | 47 | 3.59574★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 47 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Starving Student Card App make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Starving Student Card App earns approximately $24K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like Starving Student Card App?▴
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Who makes Starving Student Card App?▴
Starving Student Card App is published by Cade Humphrey on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Starving Student Card App's BU Score?▴
Starving Student Card App has a BU Score of 54/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.