How much does Lake Mendota Buoy Data make per month?

Our model estimates Lake Mendota Buoy Data earns roughly $160/mo, but with only 25 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.

What apps are like Lake Mendota Buoy Data?

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What is Lake Mendota Buoy Data built with?

Our heuristic places Lake Mendota Buoy Data on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.

Is Lake Mendota Buoy Data still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (87% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was Lake Mendota Buoy Data last updated?

Lake Mendota Buoy Data last shipped a new version on 2024-11-15 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Lake Mendota Buoy Data?

Lake Mendota Buoy Data is published by Candace Bain on the Google Play 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 Lake Mendota Buoy Data's BU Score?

Lake Mendota Buoy Data 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.

Lake Mendota Buoy Data

Quality Score

Solid

Lake Mendota Buoy Data

Name: Lake Mendota Buoy Data — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Lake Mendota Buoy Data revenue, Lake Mendota Buoy Data app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Weather revenue, Android app revenue

by Candace Bain

Low confidence

4.8 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Lake Mendota Buoy Data is an Android app from Candace Bain in the Weather category, currently rated 4.8★ across 25 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 54: Solid (established niche player). For a Weather 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

$160

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$80 – $749

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$80 – $2246

per month

MICRO tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.8

Reviews

25 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$160

Snapshots tracked

since Jul 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$160K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $120K – $215K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost

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
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$27K
⚙ 13.2y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$79K

Total estimate $160K

🛠 Estimated tech stack

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Native Android (Kotlin)

High confidence · 80%

Also possible

Flutter

Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.

Signals we read

🏷 Category context	Weather
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

87%

Last shipped 2024-11-15 · 697 days ago

0 · Active 50 · At risk 100 · Abandoned

Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.

Risk signals

📅 1y 11mo since last update	Likely deprioritized
👥 Small user base (25 ratings) + 13.2y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)
• 13y old + 1y+ no update	+5% (API deprecation drift)

Verdict Likely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$160/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)

Direction

Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition

6 months

$102 – $409

12 months

$80 – $749

24 months

$80 – $2.2K

Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Insufficient data · 33/100MICRO TIERtoo early to score

Revenue Strength

2.2

Product Quality

3.8

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

4.5

Operational Safety

7.0

Founder Strength

2.9

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.75★ across 25 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 697d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (697d since update).

🎯 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 = $2K-$5K.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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 4 of 4 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC		+$2,200
Mature app (13y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Pre-traction phase (25 ratings)METRIC		−$300

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Lake Mendota Buoy Data
Developer: Candace Bain
Bundle ID: com.candacebain.lakemendotabuoy
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Weather
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: Not found
Tagline: Not found
Description: Not found
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Not found

Revenue

Reported revenue signal / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
Model estimate / mo: $161/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
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

Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.

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

Displays near real-time lake conditions including:

* Wind direction and speed

* Air temperature

* Dew point/relative humidity

* Vertical profile of water temperature

* Dissolved oxygen

* Chlorophyll

* Phycocyanin

From the Lake Mendota buoy in Madison, Wisconsin.

Wind speed can be shown in miles per hour, meters per second, or knots.  Temperatures can be shown in celsius or fahrenheit. 

Data provided by the Limnology, Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) and Environmental Engineering Departments at University of Wisconsin.

App Specs

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🔖 v1.10🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Weather💰 Free🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)

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