Welcome everyone to the Atlanta Startup Podcast. Thank you for joining us, Gera. Thank you for having me. You guys helped me out and see the whole process from Startup Runway to now.
And I love that you mentioned that I was particularly excited about the discussion because you are our most recent winner for the audience favorite at last December [Startup] Runway Showcase. And it was very well deserved, you were able to engage the crowd well. And my dad was like, you want to keep joining these leagues and travel for these teams, to like, you might as well make one of these viral apps to become a millionaire.
He told me that when I was like 12, 13 years old, so I used to go to the library, and my mom was a trustee at the local library, and I learned Objective C. Objective C was swift before swift language. And between that progression from to entering college, I stopped programming until my sophomore year of college, I got back into it.
Because I saw this kid on TikTok. He said that he made 9 to 50k with this simple app. I saw that and I got right back into the program at first, my major was aerospace engineering. So I switched from aerospace to software engineer. And that whole timeline from sophomore year college to now is a whole crazy timeline itself. So fast forward to like last year, so now was officially released. And it took us like a year and a half to get it on the App Store. But it was released around this time a year ago.
And ironically, when we first released it, within our first two weeks, we went viral on TikTok. So it was okay, why not make our dating app? But it was funny if I did, but it just worked out in our first two weeks at that Tiktok video, we got a little over downloads if you went on Apple social networking charts, and that helped us propel to get a lump sum of users in like a 24 or 48 hour period thinks that TikTok. So yeah, that TikTok from last year to now has been a whole progression in terms of just creating and curating a startup, a team, and everything.
