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In 2012, I created a photo app for the VK social network in 2 weeks. The app quickly gained 30k users and I was planning to adapt it for Facebook, but my partner disappeared. Later, it turned out that he sold the app to move to Thailand. If I had known back then, I would have sold the app to Mark Zuckerberg and become incredibly wealthy

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I'm not close to these deals, but my understanding is you have to have some existing connection to the CEO or at least very senior VP's for it to be an actual reality. So I wouldn't feel too bad!

As I remember, there weren't good photo apps back then, and there were just a few good apps on Facebook, which was concerning, while Instagram was just becoming popular. Apparently, the managers were siphoning money from Facebook and sabotaging the work. My app was called InstaGo and offered filters like Instagram. I think it would have quickly become popular and reached the top and I would have met a lot of interesting people. Of course, the Facebook managers could have just copied it if there were no connections with the leadership. But I believe that in those days, it was still possible to reach out to someone in Facebook's leadership through Facebook

Wow that's quite the story

Yeah, this wasn't the first missed project. The most interesting story came from my music app for iOS in 2010, which I developed for a year and which was in the top 10 music apps in the App Store. But the managers killed it because they didn't listen to advice and tried to sell it to footballers (the boss just had a sports channel)

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