# 1 Hour Startup — Company Simulator & CEO Game > Company Simulator & CEO Game (iPhone/iPad app by UMIT ERDEM SALTAN.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/1-hour-startup/id6811930868 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [UMIT ERDEM SALTAN](https://appshunter.io/developer/6811930870) - Category: Games, Simulation, Strategy - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 80 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-18 - Data updated: 2026-10-12 ## What is 1 Hour Startup? You have one hour, one idea, and a market that has seen it before. Most runs end with an investor politely passing. That is not a difficulty setting — that is the game. 1 HOUR STARTUP is a business simulator about the decisions founders actually make, and the arithmetic that decides whether those decisions survive contact with a cap table. THE RUN Every run starts with a founder, not a company. Twelve attributes, an assigned archetype, one reroll, and an honest answer about how much of your own money and time you are putting in. Then pick a sector, pick an idea from over a hundred — or type your own — and start making calls. Prove the problem is real. Shape the product: what you store, what you charge for, who you say no to. Build an MVP. Hire, or don't. Spend on growth, or keep the runway. Then something goes wrong, because something always does, and you take it to an investor. THE LADDER When someone does say yes, the run keeps going: Seed, Series A, B, C, D+, Unicorn. Each round is priced by a real cap table. You give up equity to raise, and the percentage you hand over is the percentage you never get back. Valuations go down as well as up. A round can fail and leave you bridging to the next attempt. Companies run out of cash and die, and the game tells you which month it happened. When you exit, the money is paid through a liquidation waterfall — preferences first, you last. A three million dollar exit against a five million dollar preference pays the founder nothing at all. The game will show you the zero. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TABLE Money you take off the table is yours. Exit a company, or sell part of your stake in a secondary, and it lands in a wallet that funds eight to twelve cheques at any balance. That unlocks Investor HQ, where you read other companies' rounds, open the data room, and write cheques — or pass. Your positions dilute when they raise, mark up when they grow, and pay out through the same waterfall your own company used. Paper is not money until it is. THE DOCUMENT YOU LEAVE WITH Finish a run and the game writes a product specification out of the answers you gave: the problem, the customer, the pricing, the platform, what you deliberately said no to. Copy it to the clipboard or save it as a PDF. It is written to be handed to an AI build tool, and the honest part is the list of open questions at the end — every fact the game had to leave blank because you were never asked for it. WHAT ELSE IS IN THERE - 107 startup ideas across six verticals, each with its own way of going wrong - 129 events, from a co-founder who has reread the vesting schedule to a spreadsheet that says you are two people too big - 551 decision options, none of which is strictly the best one - A daily challenge with a modifier and a streak - My Ventures - every company you have ever run, and how each one ended - A leaderboard of ranks and scores HOW THIS APP MAKES MONEY, SAID PLAINLY There are no ads and no in-app purchases. Nothing is for sale and nothing you could buy would change a score. What there is: at the end of a run the game ranks 30 real build tools against the specification you just produced. Some of those links pay us a commission if you sign up. The game says so on the card itself, next to the link, and the ranking is computed without knowing which links pay - it is scored on fit to what you built. Tools that pay us nothing are ranked above tools that do whenever they fit better. WHAT IS NOT IN THERE No multiplayer, no chat, no friend lists. No account to create - the app signs in anonymously and never asks for your email. It asks once for a leaderboard name, which you roll from a word list rather than type, you can skip it, and you can change it any time in Settings. A run takes about half an hour. Losing takes less. ## Is 1 Hour Startup safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess 1 Hour Startup. ## Is 1 Hour Startup legit? 1 Hour Startup has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for 1 Hour Startup is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-05 The home screen is now your founder's phone: the company you left mid-run, who is waiting on you, and what to do next — all on one screen instead of a menu of buttons. • A new handoff page between phases: everything that happened while you were deciding arrives there, each item with the sender who caused it. • Your month statement is no longer a wall of numbers — each line arrives from the company it came from. • An Inbox you can open from the home screen, so a run you stepped away from tells you where it stopped. • Investor HQ deals read as pitches now, with an unread mark, the ask beside its post-money and stake, and a Pass that stays neutral — a passed deal fades in place instead of vanishing. • And the price on the card is the pitch, not the receipt. A cheque is a commitment: your shares are issued at the price the round actually closes at, and a holding is re-valued only when a round prices it, never by a raise that failed. The sitting digest puts the close beside the price you were quoted and tells you what your money bought. • A company that paid you out no longer reads as a loss, and a percentage nobody has re-priced says it is the last one known. • Tap any startup term in a question or an option and the game defines it, in its own words, against what the simulation actually does. • Your build spec now declares what it does not know instead of asserting an answer nobody gave you. • A chaos event that only some runs can get now says so, on the event itself. • Turkish: shouted labels across the app get their dotted İ back, and nine of the eleven financing rows and their chips no longer show English on a Turkish screen. • Requires iOS 15 or later. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-21 Every question in the run was rewritten so it reads as a question with its stakes in it — and every answer now says what it costs or gives, not just what it is called. • Your build spec is front and centre on the result screen: one tap to copy it, one to save it as a PDF. • The spec now opens with a pre-build clarification protocol, so the AI tool you paste it into asks before it invents. • The result screen names your revenue-priced value plainly, and a run that went on to later rounds shows that round's post-money beside it. • Investor HQ's briefing now says how cash actually arrives (an exit or an IPO — nothing else). • One new build tool on the shelf: Softr. • The build-tool links at the end of a run stay current between releases. • Fixed: a settings screen closed before its sync reply arrived could log an error. ### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-18 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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