At dA, the developers we’ve met and interviewed have never ceased to amaze us. Granted, all these developers have taken varying approaches in succeeding on the Facebook platform. We just wanted to give a shout out and congratulations to Ankur Nagpal for his recent feature in BusinessWeek. Ankur, a 19-year-old sophomore at UC Berkeley has made over six figures, creating over 70 personality quizzes for Facebook. Ankur has taken a simple, lightweight model of viral success and replicated that over and over, succeeding with tactics such as cross promotion of apps. We have observed similar strategies pursued by the “versus” game-like apps as well.
Mad props to Ankur and his ability to execute (while being a student)! 
