Flag Machine by the Numbers

Not VC-backed. Not a growth-hacked consumer app. Still:

• 10.8k total visits
• 97k pageviews
• 3,819 downloads
• Average visit about 5 minutes 26 seconds
• Roughly 1,000 hours of people’s lives “wasted” making flags

In a thousand hours you can learn to play an instrument with your feet. Or become a decent goat rancher.

People loved mountain backgrounds. The top layout echoed the old circular seal a bit; the hexagon (bees) was a close second. The beehive icon more than doubled every other symbol. Top colors: orange, navy, yellow/gold, white.

Merge those choices and you get something that looks suspiciously like what Utah ended up choosing.