6 Hard Lessons from Launching an App

[@oopartsw911]

Caleb, as a fellow Caleb to another, I gotta sit ya down and talk to ya here, my brother. I love your content. So so so much. I’ve watched GameCube Gambit, PlayStation Project, Mission Switch, and all your convention videos multiple times. You inspired me to resell but also to get back into gaming and loving the retro games that I never played. But ever since the beginning of this year, I can see you’re stressed or upset. It seems you’re very obsessed with the app which makes sense cause you invested so much in it. But try to take time and dive back into your love of gaming. Talk to us about your favorite Switch or GC games. Tell us what you’re playing or wanting to play. It just seems you’re really stressing about numbers and not enjoying where you’re at. Even your Renix Pesale channel used to be fun and interesting in how you’re changing your business (like your recent bookshelf video). It seems more like I’m on an investor call than seeing my passionate man from half a year back. This is all coming from a place of love, man. I hope you succeed in all your endeavors.

[@newenglandhustler8200]

He doesn’t play video games. His channel was never about playing video games. This is what you subbed for. It’s all a grift.

[@mikeippolito2927]

@@newenglandhustler8200 hater hank over here

[@newenglandhustler8200]

@@mikeippolito2927 nope. Just a person with a brain. When has his channel ever been about playing video games? He doesn’t care about them. Just sees them as a way for greed.

[@oopartsw911]

@@newenglandhustler8200 I knew as soon as I put this comment out, someone would say it’s a grift. Lol glad you live in his house and monitor his everyday activities.

[@newenglandhustler8200]

@@oopartsw911 cry me a river. Explain to me how the GameCube gambit wasn’t a grift?

[@jayz6706]

I’m just curious but do you feel like it would’ve been better to invest that $140k elsewhere and maybe just transfer the physical buy list to like a website or something which would’ve cost like a few grand tops? And just continue using Amazon and price charting for comps?

[@BigDirtDawg]

Yea, a house would’ve been a much better investment. But it’s his money so i guess he can invest in whatever he thought was best for him you know. I’m sure he doesn’t feel to confident about that investment now though

[@markperkins2656]

I love your content… but putting 100k+ into an app where you resell other peoples goods on amazons is crazy. No wonder you’re their standout customer. It’s such a wild way to spend profits.

[@Anticidal25901]

Small minded really… definitely a risky business idea… but imagine the potential for a second. He has now opened up himself to inventory on easy mode… he essential has hundreds of people working for him now, and they’re paying him a fee to do it. I’m not sure how many *collections* he’s gotten from the app yet, but I’m gonna assume it won’t take long to start seeing a ROI of the app.

[@soaked23]

"They said One Up is their favourite app to work on and I'm their best customer" How doesn't this bloke see that he's a total sucker, been taken for a ride by these developers. Spent $150k to have the most barebones app, and then talking about having to rebuild it again for 2.0? I call this a money pit from day one and every video proves me right.

[@austintaylor5683]

It’s good you’re a developer and have the inside scoop of what’s happening and not just a comment warrior or I would be worried.

[@reconegade4006]

@@austintaylor5683I’m a developer and can tell you he got screwed. 1. They built him a website and not an app. 2. It’s a very generic look/feel

[@randomrandomness8743]

Hater Hank, is that you? 😂

[@austintaylor5683]

@@randomrandomness8743 the callout + no reply must be super effective. 😂

[@soaked23]

@@austintaylor5683 he's not gonna shag you, mate

[@WaltHeisenberg-b4h]

So this entire business model is based on the fact amazon is hard to unlock access to

[@legoboy-ox2kx]

Stop calling it an app if it's only a website, that really bothers a lot of people because generally an "app" is a native application that runs on your device, not just a website that relies entirely on an internet connection.

[@quandaildingo1278]

It's a web app

[@legoboy-ox2kx]

@@quandaildingo1278 I get that, but my point is that it's entirely contained within a website. Having an actual native IOS/Android app would allow for many more features and a much better experience for most users, since the UI, and barcode scanner would run natively instead of through the web browser which gets better performance, uses less bandwidth and the scanner would work a lot better since you have direct access to the camera.

[@SorryDaSlayer]

its not that deep

[@njones621]

Application: a computer program that is designed for a particular purpose. -Cambridge Dictionary. Yeah dude, it’s an app (short for application). Just because it’s not what you think an app is, doesn’t mean it’s not. Get over it.

[@manonamission2000]

which people does it bother? 😂

[@south-sellgamers853]

It was always going to bomb. Be real man love you but it was an awful idea and that OK. I resell and sell to you and it's not something for me.

[@homsarpshoo3975]

The long-term issue with this app is that it pulls information from outside sources. Any program that depends on outside resources will need maintenance over time. That means you will have to keep paying the dev team to maintain the app. You hope that the app makes more money than the cost to maintain. This app was never going to be a one lump sum to complete situation.

[@reconegade4006]

It’s not an app……it’s a website

[@SoFreshBlaze]

Definitely got scammed if that's a website lol. UI looks terrible bro, could have paid someone on UpWork to make that for much cheaper.

[@BeefyTacoCS]

One suggestion for the app: Give an option to set prices in your local currency ~ As a Canadian, it is a nightmare having to rough estimate the 30% difference when looking up a bunch of games. Even better would be a setting to permanently show prices in whatever currency you select for your account.

[@myplatinumlife]

Watching the app videos became painful just seeing how the companies were stringing you along. Things like logos can be done for such little money on places like fiverr. Then all of the add ons for development…oof

[@JoseLopez-yx4et]

What comes around , goes around 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@z0mgitsgrant2]

For your own mental and physical health. Please shut this project down. We know you believe in this app / concept, but its starting show its wear. You will get hate for ending this project, but we also don't think you'll continue through it. Much better to take these lessons learned and move forward.

[@GameKollector]

You could’ve had a decent website built for about 1/10th of what you paid…Those developers took you for a ride. $150K is crazy for essentially a website. Your focus should have been quick flips…period…you screwed yourself by making it more than that.

[@HammycheW]

bring back yard sale hunting!

[@markmurray5214]

Did he ever go yard sale hunting? Lol Ive seen pawn shops/thrifts but not any yard sales

[@Scarletpanda17]

I love the app, but no matter how I adjust settings, I can’t get the barcode scanner to pick up which really slows things down. I want to upgrade to paid, but I need that scanner functionality working.

[@tellivision]

Did you try to Uninstall it and re install? When they fixed it I got an email to do that. Barcode scanner works perfect now.

[@braddrcrushalot3785]

If you’re looking for a console partner Retro Rick is always telling people to bring him consoles to the store. He may be a great first test partner for 1up since he has a stable business already if they’re learning pains for buying consoles.

[@spenserparsley]

The scanner does not work on my phone I have tried multiple times and I get nothing.

[@Wfreddy84032]

I am a small time guy, but I have lots of stuff that I would love to get offer for that are not on your list. I believe you buy things. Love it if could put stuff available list that your list flag and gave one time offers to help me get over $300 minimum. Love idea of see to you for set prices, but it taken me almost 3 months to find enough items you want at price that make sense to source for. Just a thought. Enjoy the online buy list.

[@BigDirtDawg]

That’s the thing his buy lists are extremely sought after games that anyone could just sell themselves in their sleep. Plus they are extremely hard to source now for a decent price. I’m not sure how this business model would hold up for him long term

[@vintagereno]

Can you please break down how it took 9 months and 130k to make this app?

[@HammycheW]

Check previous videos. He goes through it in alot of depth...

[@vintagereno]

@@HammycheW I have. I still don’t see 130k and 9 months. I wanna know why it took that long and that much to make a portal to sell games to him.

[@GameKollector]

He got ripped off…big time…he would just never admit it.

[@FlappableElf]

Really appreciate hearing you talk about your struggles! It’s always nice to be able to see the good and the bad

[@mickeydrummond7809]

I love these updates but holy smokes so many ads and they are so loud

[@triforcelink]

If you’ve got enough sales volume, you can probably use your own sales data to come up with game pricing, don’t have to Amazon or eBay for sales data.

[@chargerz919]

How will we know if a month of subscription has been added after our submission has been paid out? I dont want to let the fee be charged to my bank account if I'm sending you $250-500/mo in submissions.

[@ZBatt1]

Elsie said this is my channel now 😂

[@markalspaugh2321]

This may be someting you already thought of r someone has already mentioned. You mentioned possibly in the future adding addtional Buyers to the App to purchase the things you don't. I would assume you would ask for some sort of fee or percentage. Could you bunp the idea up earlier and have one or two of those buyes invest into the App in order to be a buyer on the app. Some sort of on boarding fee to help with the developent cost. I know you are wanting to keep 100% ownership of the app. So a fee would help offset the cost with out giving up ownership.

[@Kazpper88]

ALL I WANT IS 1 HOUR VIDEO'S ❤ NO EDITING INVOLVED

[@randomrandomness8743]

What would be your backup plan if AMZ did shut you down? Back to Ebay and Whatnot?

[@BandBrawlers]

Why do you offer quick flips of loose gba games but not complete gba games? Would love to sell off cib gba games through your app

[@miguelhxrnandez]

because on amazon, they dont give you an option to charge more for boxed consoles/games. The price is the same as loose/cib and another reason he stated is that shipping bulky items is not a prefreable to him.

[@ericortizbasketball7512]

Who is Calebs boyfriend? Happy your coming out

[@VENOM-_-15]

😂😂😂

[@maartenn2217]

Stop projecting Eric

[@mr_fuji_mintsmr_fuji_mints9873]

Caleb, do you got any wiggle room?!

[@farmingsim9813]

I like renix pesale

[@pokene_pokemon]

Did you buy my leaner stool lol?

[@joshvgame]

New video.... a day in the life of Elsie

[@Ben-qw3py]

Congrats on 5across!!

[@pumpkinking446]

Giving way too much energy/attention to the haters imo. Just do what you want and most of your fans will follow. You’re never going to please everyone

[@Bubblebunzz]

bro really didnt put the app on android huh?

[@pushplayergames]

I think you are doing a great job! Don't pay attention to the haters. They have nothing better to do than troll because they are wannabes. Keep up the good work!

[@christopherortega8953]

All I know is I've been following you since you started, so I've literally seen you go from picking from stores to a however much $ business to a freakin app, as a very small time console seller, I look up to you as a person and your content as well, I'm supporting you and your content, I hope that you and your family are successful , keep up the good work buddy, never stop gaming, I buy and sell for fun but I still game on almost every console there is and I hope to never stop, I hope to meet you and Riff & Ricky, Kris, Curtis Freakin Gabbo, All of yall one day, love yall man😁🎮✌️❤️

[@notgayjay]

no views in 23 secconds renix pesale fell off

[@akahee22]

🔥

[@andywicks9080]

Look at the flow grow on this man!

[@guapo1040]

Caleb, you understand product more than you think. You solved a customer problem. That's product.

[@biggestthreattoyourexistence]

I don't think Apps are an instant success thing. You launched a beta essentially. You need to see what users are saying/doing and improve. You also have to figure out how to make money. Maybe you can get a sponsor, sell the app.

[@ZackaryArmstrong]

Renix Pesale