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Last summer, Bria Sullivan was getting acceptable to motorboat her app, an adorable companion called Focus Friend meant to assistance radical negociate their surface time. Her outlandish imagination was to get 100,000 downloads. She'd been gathering the app with Hank Green, a creator with a immense audience, truthful she thought maybe, maybe, Focus Friend could beryllium a top-10 app successful the productivity category. Even that felt similar a stretch, though. "Our class has ChatGPT, it has Google," she says. "I mean, productivity includes Gmail!"

Sullivan initially dropped the app into the iOS App Store without truly telling anyone. But successful August, acknowledgment to a batch of promotion from Gr …

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