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GoGBA emulator hits 7.4k MAU with zero ad spend
Developer shipped GoGBA, a GBA emulator for Android and iOS, in late December 2025. Six months later, monthly active users peaked at 8.3k and now sit at 7.4k without any paid advertising. The project was built solo using Flutter and a forked mGBA core, with AI assistance but significant manual debugging.
Meridian48 take
The story's real value is in the product decisions—like per-orientation button opacity—that came from daily dogfooding, not in the AI-assisted development angle.
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