Play Store Startups

Scalefusion is a mobile device management platform helping SMBs configure and secure employee devices without IT expertise. After 3 failed startup attempts, founder Harishanker Kannan leveraged his kiosk technology experience to build a simple, affordable solution that grew organically to $400k/month through SEO and customer support excellence.

Playdate was an on-demand social networking app that matched users to meet based on shared activities, growing to 5,000 monthly active users and a 7-person team over 2 years. The startup burned through $30-40k by trying to monetize through venue coupons post-MVP, but failed due to poor user retention from grassroots cannabis giveaways, inability to solve the chicken-and-egg problem for geographically dense matching, and slow organic growth. Logan shut down the company on February 22, 2019, after realizing Playdate had become a zombie company with no viable path to growth or investor interest.