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Solid

FAA IFR Instrument Rating Prep

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FAA IFR Instrument Rating Prep is an Android app from Dauntless Aviation in the Education category, currently rated 4.0★ across 48 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 53: Solid (established niche player). For a Education 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.

💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$5.0K/mo
In 12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
In 24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
MID tier
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Forecast Revenue / mo
Snapshots tracked
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since first record
💰 Estimated build cost
$200K
Likely range $150K – $270K
$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
💎In-app purchase plumbing+$9K
Education complexity ×1.20+$11K
🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)+$39K
15.0y maintenance × ~1-person team+$89K
Total estimate$200K
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 33× MRR multiple
💸~0.4× build cost (under-water)

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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
💎IAP / freemium model base28× MRR
📅15.0y proven track record+20%
🏷Education category multiple+6%
Small user base (<1K ratings)-8%
Final multiple33× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
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 contextEducation
📦Compact Android bundle→ Native Kotlin
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
40%
Last shipped 2026-01-13 · 129 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
📅4 months since last updateSlowing cadence
👥Small user base (48 ratings) + 15.0y old+10% (solo-project pattern)
VerdictAt risk
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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE
Baseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix

Below median · 54/100MID TIERunderperforming peers
GrowthFounderQualityRevenueMonetiz.MoatMarketSafety
Growth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.2
Product Quality
3.2
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
4.0
Defensibility
10.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
  • 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
  • ⭐ Quality: 4.0★ across 48 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($47K/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.
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💰 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:
Paid app ($64.99)METRIC
+$2,800
Mature app (14y old)METRIC
+$1,500
Good rating (4.0★)METRIC
+$800
Pre-traction phase (48 ratings)METRIC
−$300
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📈 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.
App Specs
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🔖 v10.9.0🔄 updated 4mo ago📂 Education💰 Free💎 IAP $24.99 per item🚀 Launched 2011 (14y old)

📝 About this app

Spend less time studying and more time flying! This is the FAA Instrument Rating (IFR) version of GroundSchool, our FAA knowledge (written) test preparation featuring up-to-date questions, free updates, and illustrated explanations written by a professional team of pilot examiners and instructors.

GroundSchool is fully compatible with FAA ACS (Airman Certification Standards) and our editorial team is working to keep it so as ACS continues to evolve.… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — dauntless-soft.com

Mail provider
Microsoft 365
Tech stack
Google Workspace · AWS SES
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name
FAA IFR Instrument Rating Prep
Developer
Dauntless Aviation
Bundle ID
com.dauntless.gs.faa.ifr
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Education
Content rating
Not found
Languages
Not found

Company

Website
www.dauntless-soft.com
Tagline
Not found
Description
Not found
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
$2.5K/mo
Top-grossing rank
Not found
All-time revenue
Not found
Pricing
$24.99 per item

Founder

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Funding

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Press & Links

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Contacts & Socials

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📈Ratings growth48 ratings+12% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾Jun 2023Dec 2024May 2026
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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.

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✓ Diversified — top app contributes 7%; risk spread across portfolio

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