My novelty map app accidentally became an ad channel, so I'm pivoting to that. Current numbers inside.
Quick timeline: built tile.today, the world divided into 50x50m squares you can only claim by physically standing in one. First claim free daily, €1 after. Got 200+ users and 250+ squares claimed across 26 countries, mostly from Reddit posts.
Zero paid claims so far, which taught me the extra-claim upsell is dead. But then users started putting links to their own businesses in their claim notes without being asked (print shop, a couple of apps, a soundcloud), so I built a live feed on the map showing every claim + note, and now I'm building proper paid ad slots on squares instead. Sharing because "your users show you the business model" turned out to be literal in my case. Happy to share anything else about the numbers.