Congratulations Kik: A Billion Dollars Started With a Remarkable MVP

Waterloo, Canada, September 22, 2015 (Newswire.com) - ​It was late in 2009 when Ted contacted Monolith to build the MVP for the Kik chat app. Ted had already created a chat app for blackberry called Unsynced, and he wanted to take it to the next level. Even at that early date, he wanted to create a unicorn app that would be embraced by millions of users. In order to achieve that he knew that he had to be on the hot new iPhone, and that meant calling someone who could create an exceptional app on an exceptional platform. He called Monolith.

Over the next half year the Monolith team worked with Kik’s developers and designers to build the Minimum Viable Product. "We built a powerful chat engine and integrated with an all-new backend server that could power the mega-growth that Ted was expecting", says Monolith CEO Simon Woodside. "We put in pixel-perfect art, added SMS and address book integration, and generally were involved in the genesis of something amazing. It was a great time to be at work."

We built a powerful chat engine and integrated with an all-new backend server that could power the mega-growth that Ted was expecting. We put in pixel-perfect art, added SMS and address book integration, and generally were involved in the genesis of something amazing. It was a great time to be at work.

Simon Woodside, CEO

It was apparent that Kik had something special. The world found out just how special it was when the app suddenly exploded by over a million users in under a week. That was just the beginning of the road to today — 200 million+ users, and a valuation of over ONE BILLION DOLLARS.

Kik’s explosive (and well-deserved) growth has confirmed the Monolith belief that proper architecture and system design is something that must be an element of every project from the start. Monolith is proud to have been a part of this awesome process and can’t wait to see what the future holds for Kik.

Congrats Kik!

About Monolith Apps

Monolith is a mobile custom development shop in Waterloo, Ontario and Toronto, specializing in apps for healthcare, wearables, audio, and in user experience design. Using a lean design and development process, the company develops both web and native apps on Android and iOS, and integrates with existing backends or builds them in Ruby on Rails. For more: http://monolithapps.com

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