Maddox Schmidlkoffer, creator of unblocked gaming site DuckMath, describes the technical origins and tech stack of the project to Starter Story host Pat Walls.
“The first site was actually on Google sites, which is just this drag and drop. And I would just embed the games from online or wherever they were, frame it in the thing.”
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Schmidlkoffer abandoned manual coding for DuckMath once AI 'vibe coding' emerged
“Especially when vibe coding got big, I've really never touched the coding part anymore. It made it a lot easier to just focus on the marketing part for the design.”
Schmidlkoffer: Fast launches require AI MVPs and reverse-engineering TikTok formats
“Pick a niche that you know to market in and then build a super quick MVP in like two to three days with the help of AI or however you're going to build it quickly. And then you might want to do these things kind of in the same time, but you're going to researc…”
Schmidlkoffer: DuckMath scaled to 150,000 DAUs and $15,000 monthly revenue
“I launched it four years ago, but then the last four months, we went from five to a 150,000 daily active users, and from about a thousand a month to 15,000 a month.”
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