Who would have thought that two teenage boys will create an app that would be downloaded by 16,500 people? This happened to Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen both from Boulder, Colorado. These two boy created an anti-procrastination iOS which they called Finish. This app was launched last January 16. Finish was downloaded 16,500 times in just a few weeks since it was launched. The price per download of the app is $0.99. No one would expect that two teenage boys will make $16,000 in a less than a month.
The pair came up with Finish when they were agonizing over finals during their sophomore year at Boulder High School in Boulder, Colo. The idea was to help people deal with procrastination. For months, they worked on interface, design, and development. By last August they had a beta version of the app and it hit Apple’s App Store last month.
The app lets users set short, mid, and long-term tasks. As the date for the task to be done nears, the app notifies the user. The idea is to not let anything sneak up on procrastinators. And, it’s not only for high schoolers, Orbuch said.
“We’ve seen Finish work for an amazing variety of people. From high school students to lawyers, doctors to real estate agents, writers to entrepreneurs, and tons more,” Orbuch said. “Though the app was built by students, it wasn’t built to be school-specific. Finish is essentially a framework, it’s an app that provides the perfect amount of structure to truly reduce stress and ease procrastination for just about anyone.”
The report also revealed that 10% of all iPad apps feature in-app purchases, while among the iPhone apps only 6% feature in-app purchases. So far, Apple’s App Store is the only one that integrates such purchases, meaning that one can get a free app and then pay for an upgrade.