Agar.io has had a visibly rapid growth in users over the past weeks. At times, close to 100,000 users appear to be active. I am curious about what their ad monetization looks like in relation to their server costs. Do you suspect they are in the red or the black? Does anyone have a guess as to figures for this?
I think there is very little overhead on both the server side and the client. Server side is written in C++ with libuv for networking and client side is written in pure javascript without the use of any frameworks or libraries.<p>So Agar.io is probably making money.<p>The dev describes his stack here:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9463842" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9463842</a>