51
Quality Score
Solid
What Lurks Below
🏆 BU Rank #216,280📺 Entertainment📅 Joined Jun 2016
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What Lurks Below is a YouTube channel from @whatlurksbelow in the YouTube Channels category, currently rated 2.6★ across 132,000 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 51: Solid (established niche player). For a YouTube Channels channel, 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$96/mo
In 12 months
$127 – $182
In 24 months
$185 – $309
✓ Verified MRRMID tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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How we forecast this revenue
HIGH CONFIDENCEBaseline
$96/mo · founder-confirmed (Stripe webhook)
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$107 – $137
12 months
$127 – $182
24 months
$185 – $309
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±12% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 33/100MID TIERno growth momentumRevenue Strength
2.0
Product Quality
5.1
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.0
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Verified $96/mo (founder claim, Stripe / ASC), trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.56★ across 132,000 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 = $1K-$3K.
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 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (132,000 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Below-average rating (2.6★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| 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.
App Specs
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📝 About this app
From deep sea creatures & amazing marine life to the ocean's lost sunken treasures, we'll give you a glimpse of What Lurks Below!
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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
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Crossed 100,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-05
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Crossed 50,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-12
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Crossed 10,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-11
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Crossed 5,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-10
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Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-10
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Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-09
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- What Lurks Below
- Developer
- @whatlurksbelow
- Bundle ID
- UCrLg26XASQO2rfheSFV-F6w
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- YouTube Channels
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Est. AdSense / mo
- $0.3K – $0.8K/mo · AdSense est., excl. sponsorships
- Verified revenue / mo
- $96/mo
- Annual run-rate (AdSense)
- $0.0M – $0.0M/yr
- Avg monthly views
- 0M/mo (lifetime avg)
- Total lifetime views
- 45,983,055
- Sponsorships
- Not found
- Top-grossing rank
- 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.
📈Subscriber growth132,000 subscribers+349% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for What Lurks Below: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does What Lurks Below make per month?▾
Based on our founder-verified MRR, What Lurks Below earns approximately $96/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 What Lurks Below?▾
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Who makes What Lurks Below?▾
What Lurks Below is published by @whatlurksbelow on the YouTube. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is What Lurks Below's BU Score?▾
What Lurks Below has a BU Score of 51/100 (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.