NXT Remote Control
63
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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NXT Remote Control is an Android app from Jacek Fedorynski in the Communication category, currently rated 4.4★ across 6,731 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 63: Solid (established niche player). For a Communication 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
1 snapshots on record
Rating
4.4
Reviews
6,731 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
1
since Jun 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$225K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $170K – $305K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.8y 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 |
| ⚙ Communication complexity ×1.65 | +$32K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$45K |
| ⚙ 16.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$96K |
Total estimate
$225K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× build cost (under-water)
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 |
| 📅 16.0y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Communication category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
445K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
26K
Daily active
15K
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
| 📲 Communication engagement | ~95 installs / rating |
| 📅 16.0y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Communication D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.60 |
DAU / MAU
58% sticky
🛠 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 context | Communication |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
77%
Last shipped 2025-05-27 · 504 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 4mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| • 16y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
7.9
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.39★ across 6,731 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 503d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (503d 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 (6,731 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- NXT Remote Control
- Developer
- Jacek Fedorynski
- Bundle ID
- org.jfedor.nxtremotecontrol
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Communication
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.jfedor.org
- 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
- $5.0K/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
Control your Lego Mindstorms NXT robot from your phone via Bluetooth.
Connect the wheel motors to outputs B and C and optionally the action motor to output A.
Several control schemes to choose from (switch from menu).
Send me an email if you encounter any problems or have any comments or suggestions.
Source code available at:
http://code.google.com/p/nxt-remote-control/
Connect the wheel motors to outputs B and C and optionally the action motor to output A.
Several control schemes to choose from (switch from menu).
Send me an email if you encounter any problems or have any comments or suggestions.
Source code available at:
http://code.google.com/p/nxt-remote-control/
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.8🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Communication💰 Free🚀 Launched 2010 (16y old)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 6,731 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does NXT Remote Control make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, NXT Remote Control earns approximately $5.0K/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 NXT Remote Control profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $225K and monthly revenue $5.0K, NXT Remote Control looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.8 years at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does NXT Remote Control have?▴
Estimated audience: ~445K lifetime downloads, ~26K monthly active users, and ~15K 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 NXT Remote Control?▴
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What is NXT Remote Control built with?▴
Our heuristic places NXT Remote Control 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 NXT Remote Control still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (77% 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.
How much would NXT Remote Control sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 19× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was NXT Remote Control last updated?▴
NXT Remote Control last shipped a new version on 2025-05-27 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes NXT Remote Control?▴
NXT Remote Control is published by Jacek Fedorynski 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 NXT Remote Control's BU Score?▴
NXT Remote Control has a BU Score of 63/100 (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.