36
Quality Score
Emerging
Flywheel - The Taxi App
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Flywheel - The Taxi App is an Android app from Flywheel Software in the Maps & Navigation category, currently rated 2.1★ across 972 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 36: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Maps & Navigation 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$500/mo
In 12 months
$437 – $1575
In 24 months
$405 – $3644
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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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
Pre-traction · 36/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.8
Product Quality
2.9
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.1★ across 972 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 241d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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.
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Tech & Domain Intel — flywheel.com
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- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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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:
| Below-average rating (2.1★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (972 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 →🔖 v6.0.66🔄 updated 8mo ago📂 Maps & Navigation💰 Free🚀 Launched 2011 (14y old)
📝 About this app
Currently available in San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Sacramento and San Diego.
Request a cab, watch it come to you, get notified when it arrives, and pay automatically with your smartphone.
★ Wired – "Flywheel…is a slick, seamless process for rider and driver"
★ The Next Web – "all the features that users have come to love and expect…with a fresher interface”
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The Flywheel advantage is simple:
✔ Ease. Request a cab with just two taps.
✔ Convenience. Hail a cab even when you can’t see one and pay without carrying cash.
✔ Reliability.… View full description on the official store →
Request a cab, watch it come to you, get notified when it arrives, and pay automatically with your smartphone.
★ Wired – "Flywheel…is a slick, seamless process for rider and driver"
★ The Next Web – "all the features that users have come to love and expect…with a fresher interface”
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The Flywheel advantage is simple:
✔ Ease. Request a cab with just two taps.
✔ Convenience. Hail a cab even when you can’t see one and pay without carrying cash.
✔ Reliability.… View full description on the official store →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Flywheel - The Taxi App
- Developer
- Flywheel Software
- Bundle ID
- com.upstartmobile.Cabulous
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Maps & Navigation
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.flywheel.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
- $438/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 growth972 ratings+15% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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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