I launched Quizat in August. Live 1v1 trivia: pick a topic, get matched, play a short duel. About 7 questions, ~10 seconds each, match is usually around a minute. iOS and Android. English and Arabic.
It’s a real-time duel, not a single-player quiz you tap through alone. You can rematch and challenge friends. There’s XP, a daily challenge, and a leaderboard, but the thing people actually do is: pick a topic → fight someone → rematch.
Topics are a mix of broad stuff (flags, general knowledge, science, movies) and local/Arabic ones (Islam, country trivia, Gulf football, etc.). Arabic players play more per person than English so far.
Month 1 numbers. Small. Honest.
Usage
- 403 new users (551 total, including testers)
- ~27 people playing on an average day
- 428 unique players in the month
- 4,644 games, 33k questions
- ~92% of games finished
- iOS is ahead of Android (~2:1)
Biggest countries: Saudi Arabia, US, Egypt, then a long tail.
If someone starts a game, they almost always finish it, and most play a second one. Matchmaking finds an opponent almost every time. If a real player doesn’t show, a bot fills in, so the “vs a person” feel isn’t always real yet. That’s on me.
Retention
- Next-day: 18%
- Day 7: 5%
- Day 14: 4%
That’s the part that sucks. People like the first session. They don’t have a reason to come back next week. Daily challenge / streaks / leaderboard exist and they’re not doing enough.
Money
Ads made about $9. IAP was $2 and that was me testing the purchase. Zero real paying users. I didn’t put a paywall in front of play. First month was “does this even get played.”
What I want from this sub
If you play trivia apps: what actually makes you open one again after day 1? Better topics? Live opponents you recognize? A daily quiz? Leagues?
If you’ve shipped one: same question, from the other side.
Happy to answer anything about the game or the numbers