TikTok viral video clip leads to small business option for boat navigation app

FORT MYERS

A single man’s maritime navigation app is driving a new wave of achievements.

This all comes soon after his daughter posted a 12-2nd TikTok video of her father Jeff Foulk at a boat clearly show in Chicago.

No a single was getting the time to appear at his flyer in individual, but on the web, those people 12 seconds have been witnessed by just about 23 million individuals.

A sad dad is no entertaining.

But to Megan Foulk, 20, her dad’s unhappiness proved to be a company prospect.

“Honestly, I was earning a amusing online video for my father, but also with the possible of blowing up, which it astonishingly did,” Megan explained.

That 12-second TikTok online video established a wave of help for her dad’s labor of love.

“Oh my gosh, e-mail, they just preserve coming.”

Megan’s put up is about the app her dad created. Argo Navigation.

“It’s a maritime navigation app. It is a quite quick application to navigate on the water. That was what I know my purpose when I created it,” Foulk said.

Foulk had the notion for the free app about 10 yrs in the past.

“I talked about it all the time, all-around my household and colleagues, but particularly my household to the point in which my wife suggests, you should shut up about that application or create it,” he stated.

So he received to do the job.

Four years in the past, the app released.

Up until finally Jan. 14, he had much more than 100,000 downloads.

Not negative.

But considering that TikTok, it has grown.

“Now we’re in excess of 300,000 downloads and it was, I assume, it was obtaining about 50 a day. Now I may possibly be having 5000 a working day. It is crazy,” Foulk mentioned.

The outpouring of aid for the app is terrific.

Foulk has been a boater for 40 many years.

He’s noticed the trials and tribulations of navigating the waves, with no application like Argo.

Five or six yrs back, he and his family went to supper by boat.

“Dinner took a very little extended than we imagined by the time we received again on our boat. It was commencing to get dark,” Foulk mentioned.

It was also stormy and he forgot his headlight.

So he informed his two daughters get in the front and point if he needs to switch a diverse direction.

“At a single level, one of the girls pointed to the right, and one of the ladies pointed to the left,” he explained. “I just guessed I pulled left, right into a relatively big marker, a huge buoy.”

So his girls also value their dad’s app invention.

“They just assumed it was the best, the best point at any time. And just so those are the kinds of memories you have. Every person was risk-free. My boat took a small ding to it. But yeah, I likely desired Argo back again then to steer clear of all those markers,” Foulk mentioned.

Now, there’s an app for that.

Argo has topped the charts for boat navigation apps since Megan’s online video was posted.

But Foulk explained he has not made a dime on the app however.

Many thanks to its sudden reputation, he’s thinking about launching a top quality subscription for about $20 a 12 months with far more extra capabilities.