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Android-cloud-backup-app-scaled-to-800K-users-with-no-team

Android cloud backup app scaled to 800K users with no team


Friday, May 30, 2025 by

When cloud backups were not yet standard on Android, Arth Patel built Contacts Backup, one of the platform’s first apps to let users backup their contacts to the cloud, long before Google’s native solutions were reliable or widely adopted. Created entirely solo using PHP and shared hosting, the app prioritized simplicity and trust. It grew to serve over 800,...