NEW YORK: Trevor McKendrick, who is an American self-proclaimed atheist had created an app an regarding Bible in Spanish has turned him a rich man as his app on Bible named as La Biblia has able to net $100,000 for him annually.
While the app, which Trevor refers to as his ‘side project’, makes him between $5,000 and $10,000 a month.
The Salt Lake City software entrepreneur may not believe in God, but the Holy scriptures have proved good business for him.
He created two apps for the iPhone, which nets him about $100,000 a year. The apps are Spanish translations of the Bible with one being a text version and the other an audiobook app. McKendrick attributed his success to latter.
In the first year alone, the app made $73,034 in net revenue, followed by $100,134 in the second.
“That was the moment, where it was, ‘Oh this is not just a side project. This is a living,’” McKendrick told host Alex Blumberg of the podcast StartUp in January.
In a blog, McKendrick said that the idea for the app came after extensive market research. He wanted to find a niche that could be profitable and was “not swamped by competition”.
“It turns out that most of the Spanish Bible apps out there are really bad,” McKendrick wrote in his blog. He added that some Bible apps are good but are too generalised and isolated their Spanish-speaking audience.
Twitter users shared their views, some in favour of the idea, while others not in support of the atheist.
