Sadly Hubert and I aren’t going to update Phoney Girlfriend anymore after April 18th. We’re going to add two new characters this Friday and then abandon the project for a while, maybe forever. For some reason I wanted to do some calculations to see when Phoney Girlfriend will turn a profit. I wrote them out and thought they were kind of interesting so I decided to write a blog post.
Spreadsheet with all the costs. It’s in USD. I blocked the names, and purpose of our spending.
$6006.63 USD, the rest of this blog post is going to be in Hong Kong dollars. So we spent:
$6006.63 * 7.77 = $46,671.51 HKD
The smart people at Google are going to take 30% of our earnings, so that means we need to make:
$46,671.51 / 0.7 = $66,673.59 HKD
We’ve made $16,352.41 so far, and that means we need to make a further $50,321.18. Over the last thirty days we have made an average of $373.08 per day. Fifty thousand divided by three hundred and seventy is 134.88, which means it will take 135 days for us to break even. Assuming, and it’s a pretty stupid assumption, that we will continue earning at this rate.
That means on August 26th 2014 we will start making money. I feel like sales will drop after this Friday, because of a lack of support. So I still don’t really know when Phoney Girlfriend will make money.