Before he shut it down and removed it from the app store, he had it up for over a year and then took it down, but he said he never expected to make that much money from it or any money at all, he just made a simple app just to see how it would fair in the store and then next thing you know PewDie Pie promoted it when he told people this game is additive and then Reddit spread word of it to the 500 million redditors.

sudden thousands of people downloaded it and he was making money off the commercial ads in the game. It shows the power of going Viral. If PewDiepie that youtuber with his millions of fans and subs didnt promote that game randomly on one of his videos that Flappy bird would have just been another game.

He never confirmed the $50k a day but said it was A LOT OF money, but others who were familiar with how the store works said he was likely making well over $100k a day from advertising on the app he had over 50 millions of downloads.

I think he took it down because Nintendo was going to sue him for using the similar Pipes to Mario Bros.

In 2013, a seemingly simple mobile game called Flappy Bird took the world by storm, becoming an overnight sensation that garnered 90 million downloads and raked in $50,000 a day in ad revenue. But just as swiftly as it had risen to fame, its creator, Dong Nguyen, made the shocking decision to shut it down.




This article from 2014 said even though he took it down from being downloaded that his still makes money from the over 50 million people who downloaded it and still play it

No, Flappy Bird developer didn't give up on $50,000 a day

Although the hit game is no longer available, more than 50 million people who downloaded it are still generating millions, or billions, of ad impressions, and Dong Nguyen is still getting paid.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-a...n-50000-a-day/

Go Dong!

Im curious what happen to Dong? Its been many years I hope dude is living the good laugh he earned over $25 million dollars from a simple app he made at home

remember when morons were buying old iphones for $1k with the app preinstalled lol

nvm some still are lel

https://www.ebay.com/itm/40439798070...RT4VWHRXZJGJ90

wtf? 14,000 for an Iphone that still has flappy bird

but why did he take it down?