Who pays and who might buy?
Customer: Small specialty inspection firms preparing repeatable customer evidence reports
Acquirer hypothesis: Small mobile-app operator or inspection-software agency; six-month-history buyers excluded initially
Acquisition motives: Buy the income stream · Portfolio bolt-on
Minimum proof to seek
10 paying firms or 100 paying solo users; 200 completed reports; 4-week repeat usage; export/restoration and app-transfer rehearsal.
Competition and stop rule
CompanyCam already sells broad field documentation. Narrow workflow depth, not another camera app.
Stop when: Stop if paid acquisition costs outrun contribution or the only reachable buyers require six months of history.
Different tiers, different businesses
A $1k–$10k released app may transfer on its functional head start and store history. A $10k–$50k app needs genuine usage, repeat purchasing and transfer eligibility; do not confuse installs with subscriptions.
Price against verified operating profit OR a buyer-confirmed payback/buy-versus-build case. The target price is a negotiation hypothesis, not a valuation.
The $1m version needs retained field teams, reliable offline operation and normalized subscription earnings. At $10m, a field-service software buyer may value an embedded evidence workflow with material distribution. A $100m thesis requires platform-scale adoption or unique defensible capability; Apple review, privacy and minimum buyer history still apply. These are distinct future business models, not 30–90-day valuation forecasts. The economics lab backsolves the selected price only after its assumptions are accepted.
- CompanyCam · CompanyCam plans explainedChecked 2026-09-14. Paid field-work documentation category. Product-specific demand for a new app remains unvalidated.
- Apple · Apple App Store Review GuidelinesChecked 2026-09-14. Original utility, no copycat or spam reskins; review remains a dependency.
- Apple · Apple app transfer criteriaChecked 2026-09-14. App/account eligibility and service-specific transfer work must be checked.
- Maple Media · Maple Media acquisition criteriaChecked 2026-09-14. Six months or more store history with stable users/revenue. Historical activity is not an offer for a new app.