Today in History

Historical events app. Top-10 in App Store Education. 1,852 pSEO pages. 100M+ downloads.

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1,852

pages

Top 10

education

100M+

downloads

Today in History started as an iOS app in 2009. It hit the top 10 in Education and has been downloaded over 100 million times. The web version uses programmatic SEO to generate pages for every historical date. **1,852 pages, all generated from structured data.** Each page is unique, useful, and ranks. It's the simplest product in the portfolio. A JSON file is the entire database. Shipped to the App Store. Hit top 10. That's compound engineering at work. Product #7 took 5 days.

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