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Going all in: How I burnt my previous business to focus on my biggest bet

UPDATE BY EDITOR: SEPT 16, 2015

THIS DISCUSSION IS BEING CLOSED AS RODINHOODERS HAVE REPORTED FRAUD AND SCAM REGARDING MOWARES AND ITS SISTER COMPANIES.

ALL THESE LINKS COMPLAIN OF THE SAME THING 🙁

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Hello!

I am Arjun Subburaj, a serial mobile entrepreneur. Have you ever thought, what if there was my own branded instant messenger for my company or team, where I control the server? Or a mobile dating app for your college? Or an Upworthy like viral content showcase for my favorite political party or celebrity? I pondered such questions and founded a venture.

I started AppDupe as an experiment. The goal was to bring the technology powering the billion dollar companies to common folks like us, to start something with it. We looked at Google Search Keyword Analysis for the most searched turnkey web and mobile products and went on to create completely rebrandable, immediately deployable, quite scalable turnkey clone scripts of Whatsapp, Tinder, Snapchat, Instagram etc. You can buy any of our products, launch a similar service, either for a different geography or attack a different niche where the original player has not yet attacked. Example: Instagram for Cats, Tinder for India (In a regional language or some such USP), Whatsapp for Enterprise etc.

We had a year’s rough journey where an initial mobile app vendor betrayed us and started a site similar to ours and started selling the same scripts we paid him to do. Then one of our Co-Founders did some questionable things and defected. But we made sure that revenue was making up for some of that and giving us something not to cry about.

We now want to go light years ahead in achieving our goal of starting AppDupe, by offering all of our home grown products for free! (Some external vendor products will still be costed and clearly mentioned)

YES! FREE!!!

You read that right. Until recently, our Whatsapp pack was selling for $999 and selling very well. We want to change how we are perceived. We want to give everything away for free and if you are impressed with the product, looking for help installing the server or to do something serious with the product and would need customization, hopefully, you will look to us.

The reason for this attitude?

We have now found a product that we are betting everything on, Uber for X. We wanted ourselves to stop getting distracted and concentrate on just our SAAS, which we are going to showcase in TC Disrupt in SF on Sep 6th. Its kinda like in the pirate movies where the captain of the pirate ship shoots a hole through the floor of their own vessel, so that their only option is to fight to take control of their target ship, MOWARES is that, for us now 😀

Regular updates will be posted on our blog about how our crazy experiment of giving stuff away for free is turning out, so that you can decide from the data if you want to try it too.

I hope everybody gets what they want, happy founding!

Sincerely,

Arjun