How Appscrip Built a $3M/Year Business Selling Clone Apps to Startups
A bootstrapped Bangalore agency turned pre-built, customizable app clones into a $250K/month productized service by letting founders launch fast without building tech from scratch.
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Business snapshot
Monthly revenue
$250K/mo
reported Oct 2021
- Business model
- Agency or productized service
- Average build time
- 45 days/app
- Started
- Jul 2014
- Team
- 2 founders + 185 staff
- Based in
- Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Monthly revenue
- $250,000
- Apps delivered per year
- 350+
- Repeat customer rate
- 35-40%
- SEO share of acquisition
- 64%
- Employees
- 185
Tools
- Trello
- Jira
- Skype
- Gmail
- Java
- Swift
- Kotlin
- PHP
- NodeJs
- Python
Founder-reported figures, not independently verified.
Who built it, and what they built
Rahul Sharma and Shivangi Sharma co-founded Appscrip, a Bangalore-based app and web development company that positions itself as a technology partner for startups. The business focuses on founders building in on-demand services, social commerce, fintech, and messaging who need working software without assembling their own engineering team.
The company reports shipping more than 350 apps per year with an in-house team of over 150 developers, averaging 45 days per app. Its client roster includes large enterprises such as Byjus, Reliance JIO, Deutsche Bank, Tata Steel, and Harvard Medical, alongside recognition from Deloitte, Clutch, and GoodFirms.
Where the idea came from
Rahul began his career as a salaried engineer making 333 USD per month. In 2011 he and two friends started a company called 3Embed on the side, funding it from their paychecks. One friend exited within months; the second stayed three years before choosing his corporate job when the time came to go full-time. After marrying Shivangi, Rahul brought her on as his co-founder, and the pair relaunched the venture as Appscrip.
The core idea came from asking how a small team could beat the long odds most tech startups face. Their answer: build pre-made, quality technology solutions that could be delivered in about six months at low cost, sparing clients heavy development overhead. The founders drew no salary until the business generated enough revenue, which took three years.
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