Ask HN: Is Agar.io currently making or losing money?

6 points by suncanon 11y ago ↗ HN

Agar.io has had a visibly rapid growth in users over the past weeks. At times, close to 100,000 users appear to be active. I am curious about what their ad monetization looks like in relation to their server costs. Do you suspect they are in the red or the black? Does anyone have a guess as to figures for this?

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hikz 11y ago ↗

I think there is very little overhead on both the server side and the client. Server side is written in C++ with libuv for networking and client side is written in pure javascript without the use of any frameworks or libraries.

So Agar.io is probably making money.

The dev describes his stack here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9463842