The Indie Game Dev Who Accidentally Deleted $50,000 a Day

A 4-minute story of Flappy Bird — Dong Nguyen's three-day project that hit #1 in 100+ countries, earned $50,000 a day in ads, and was deleted by its own creator at the peak, February 2014. The App Store charts, the death threats and the guilt tweet thread, phones with it installed listing for thousands on eBay. What it says about virality nobody controls.