Lost On Campus
45
Quality Score
Emerging
Lost On Campus
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Lost On Campus is an Android app from StudentVIP in the Education category, currently rated 3.0★ across 1,133 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 45: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Education app, that means early traction worth watching. 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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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$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 |
| ⚙Education complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$33K |
Total estimate$95K
👥 Estimated audience size
96K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
17K
Daily active
5.1K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 🔁Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU30% sticky
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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)
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
Pre-traction · 38/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
5.4
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
3.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.0★ across 1,133 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Low install base (1,133 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (3.0★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v5.1.4🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Education💰 Free
📝 About this app
Free. Australia’s biggest uni and TAFE campus map app built by the team at StudentVIP. 57campuses maps and 40,000 campus locations. 52,000 photos. And over 400,000+ very happy users!
Find every tutorial room, lecture theatre, coffee shop, carpark, bus stop, sports field, toilet, even your nearest vending machine. Plus campus "secret locations".
Tells you how far each location is from you and how long to walk. A COMPASS even points you in the right direction.
You can VOTE for your favourite campus coffee shop, lunch place - or anything on campus.… View full description on the official store →
Find every tutorial room, lecture theatre, coffee shop, carpark, bus stop, sports field, toilet, even your nearest vending machine. Plus campus "secret locations".
Tells you how far each location is from you and how long to walk. A COMPASS even points you in the right direction.
You can VOTE for your favourite campus coffee shop, lunch place - or anything on campus.… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — studentvip.com.au
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
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
- Lost On Campus
- Developer
- StudentVIP
- Bundle ID
- com.studentservices.lostoncampus
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- studentvip.com.au
- 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
- $421/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.
📈Ratings growth1,133 ratings+27% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
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.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Lost On Campus: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,133 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
6 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Lost On Campus make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Lost On Campus earns approximately $421/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.
Is Lost On Campus profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $95K and monthly revenue $421, Lost On Campus looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Lost On Campus have?▴
Estimated audience: ~96K lifetime downloads, ~17K monthly active users, and ~5K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Lost On Campus?▴
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Who makes Lost On Campus?▴
Lost On Campus is published by StudentVIP 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 Lost On Campus's BU Score?▴
Lost On Campus has a BU Score of 45/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.