Computer Basics: PC Guide
53
Quality Score
Solid
Computer Basics: PC Guide
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Computer Basics: PC Guide is an iOS app from Sergey Vavaev in the News category, currently rated 5.0★ across 5 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 53: Solid (established niche player). For a News 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
$1.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$953 – $3437
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$883 – $7950
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$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 |
| ⚙News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate$60K
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, low defensibility moat
6 months
$928 – $2.2K
12 months
$953 – $3.4K
24 months
$883 – $8.0K
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 signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Product Quality
4.0
Revenue Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $436 - $2727/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 5.0★ across 5 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 = $19K-$34K.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (5.0★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Multilingual (26 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| New app (9 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Pre-traction phase (5 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 →💾 39 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, HR, CS, DA, NL +21📂 News💰 Paid
📝 About this app
The application contains a variety of articles and tips for anyone who works with computer technology or is simply interested in it.
It is divided into three sections:
1. Hardware
2. PC assembly
3. Software
The Hardware section contains information about all computer components, peripherals, and other equipment. The basic theory of computer parts is explained in simple language. Here you will find articles about% the motherboard, central processor, RAM, graphics card, and other hardware.
Hardware topics include:… View full description on the official store →
It is divided into three sections:
1. Hardware
2. PC assembly
3. Software
The Hardware section contains information about all computer components, peripherals, and other equipment. The basic theory of computer parts is explained in simple language. Here you will find articles about% the motherboard, central processor, RAM, graphics card, and other hardware.
Hardware topics include:… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.2
- Minor fixes and optimization
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-05
💲
Went free — dropped $0.99 price point
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 5★ | 5 | 5★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Computer Basics: PC Guide
- Developer
- Sergey Vavaev
- Bundle ID
- sergeyvapps.computerbasics
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, EL, HI, HU, ID, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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 growth5 ratings+400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (3 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (9 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
💰Pricing History$0.99 → $0.00 (-100%)
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
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 5 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Computer Basics: PC Guide is a early-stage iOS app in the news space with weak public traction — only 5 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Computer Basics make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. Computer Basics has only 5 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$86/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like Computer Basics?▴
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Who makes Computer Basics?▴
Computer Basics is published by Sergey Vavaev on the Apple App 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 Computer Basics's BU Score?▴
Computer Basics has a BU Score of 53/100 (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.