Places: Curated Discovery
59
Quality Score
Solid
Places: Curated Discovery
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Places: Curated Discovery is an iOS app from Raya App Inc in the Travel category, currently rated 4.3★ across 166 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 59: Solid (established niche player). For a Travel 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.2y 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 (272 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~1.0× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
18K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.8K
Daily active
270
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
| 📲 Travel engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 40/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
6.0
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.7
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.27★ across 166 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($8K/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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (166 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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.
🆕 What's New · v1.66.0
bug fixes and improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Places: Curated Discovery
- Developer
- Raya App Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.raya.places
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Places | Expert-Curated Travel Discovery
- Description
- Find curated, global recommendations for restaurants, bars, shops, hotels, and more. Explore with interactive maps, save favorites, and share with friends.
- 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
- $8.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#69 /100 🇮🇳#70 /100 🇫🇷#74 /100 🇩🇪#81 /100
- 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 growth166 ratings+3220% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (29 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank4 countries
🇺🇸US#69 /100
🇮🇳IN#70 /100
🇫🇷FR#74 /100
🇩🇪DE#81 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#69 now · best #61 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
Places helps you discover restaurants, hotels, and experiences in your city or anywhere in the world.
Every place you see is hand-selected by our Curators — a global team of culture-defining voices who travel the world to capture and catalog destinations that feel truly exceptional. From intimate bistros to emerging galleries to one-of-a-kind stays, if it's on Places, it's worth going.
Not sure where to start? Chat to plan anything — from a local outing to a full itinerary — and discover newly opened spots and events as they happen.… View full description on the official store →
Every place you see is hand-selected by our Curators — a global team of culture-defining voices who travel the world to capture and catalog destinations that feel truly exceptional. From intimate bistros to emerging galleries to one-of-a-kind stays, if it's on Places, it's worth going.
Not sure where to start? Chat to plan anything — from a local outing to a full itinerary — and discover newly opened spots and events as they happen.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 272 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.66.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.27 (dropped 0.73★)
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.83 → 5.00 (improved 2.17★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.25 → 3.89 (dropped 0.36★)
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.71 → 4.25 (dropped 0.46★)
2024-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Places: Curated Discovery: 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: 166 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Places make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Places earns approximately $8.5K/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 Places?▴
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Who makes Places?▴
Places is published by Raya App Inc 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 Places's BU Score?▴
Places has a BU Score of 59/100 (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.