Pie: Free Events, Cool People
68
Quality Score
Solid
Pie: Free Events, Cool People
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Pie: Free Events, Cool People is an iOS app from Pie Labs, PBC in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.7★ across 1,216 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 68: Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking 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
$569
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$498 – $1795
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$461 – $4152
per month
INDIE tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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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
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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
$150K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $200K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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Pays back in ~4.2y 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (147 MB) | +$38K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$62K |
Total estimate
$150K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $40K – $75K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
105K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
26K
Daily active
14K
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
| 📲 Social Networking engagement | ~90 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
54% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$569/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$485 – $1.1K
12 months
$498 – $1.8K
24 months
$461 – $4.2K
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
Early-stage solo · 44/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.8
Product Quality
8.5
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.2
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $227 - $1424/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.74★ across 1,216 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $10K-$18K. Portfolio play ($2K/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.
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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Low install base (1,216 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)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.
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Pie: Free Events, Cool People
- Developer
- Pie Labs, PBC
- Bundle ID
- com.whippedCream.pumpkinPie
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Pie
- Description
- get in, loser. we're makin' plans
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $3.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- 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 growth1,216 ratings+123% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (54 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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
NOW HANGING IN CHICAGO, AUSTIN, BAY AREA AND COLUMBUS
Not in one of these cities? Sit tight—we’ll get to you soon. Or move here. Your call.
Hi, we’re Pie, a social app that helps you get a life. We wanna live in a world where finding things you like to do with people you enjoy is as easy as calling an Uber…so we’re building it.
The two main pieces of our Pie (we had to):
Things You Like To Do
Free local, IRL, actually-fun events that match your vibe. Think: DJ in a coffee shop, Sunday Morning Club, and Pop Culture Jeopardy.
People You Enjoy… View full description on the official store →
Not in one of these cities? Sit tight—we’ll get to you soon. Or move here. Your call.
Hi, we’re Pie, a social app that helps you get a life. We wanna live in a world where finding things you like to do with people you enjoy is as easy as calling an Uber…so we’re building it.
The two main pieces of our Pie (we had to):
Things You Like To Do
Free local, IRL, actually-fun events that match your vibe. Think: DJ in a coffee shop, Sunday Morning Club, and Pop Culture Jeopardy.
People You Enjoy… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 147 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 16.1+🔖 v5.23.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v5.22.0
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.05 → 4.73 (improved 0.68★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.80 → 4.45 (dropped 0.35★)
2022-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2021-09
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Pie: Free Events, Cool People: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,216 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Pie make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Pie earns approximately $3.0K/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.
What apps are like Pie?▴
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Who makes Pie?▴
Pie is published by Pie Labs, PBC 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 Pie's BU Score?▴
Pie has a BU Score of 68/100 (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.