A video chat app with a 1.0.0 release and zero ratings, 137k installs in two months: it's a clone pack, you can't copy it

Hazz is a stranger video chat app for Saudi Arabia, UAE and India. It reached 137k installs in two months with zero ratings. Behind it is an older team with 4M installs: the same developer account also holds Lunzo and Lunzo Lite, and at least four more clone packages on the same template are running under other names at the same time. It took off because of the team's existing pipeline, not because of anything special in the product. Below: who is behind it, where the traffic comes from, how the money comes back, and why indie developers shouldn't follow.

The day of the Nov 2 change

On Nov 2, 2026, an app called "Hazz - Talk & Share" on Google Play gained 28,172 installs in a single day, bringing the total to 126,138. It gained nothing the day before and nothing in the two days after (Google Play installs, 11-01 to 11-04). By 11-06 it had 137,512 total installs, 47,725 new in the last 7 days, and ranked #50 in the Saudi social free chart, #78 in India and #91 in the UAE, with #96 on India's social Top Grossing chart.

Its store page is frozen at how it looked when it went live in Sep 10: version 1.0.0, with no updates since. 137k installs, not a single rating or review. The description is generic: "Messages, photos, and real-time video conversations give users a choice in how they communicate". It says nothing about strangers, hosts or coins. The in-app purchases read $1.49 – $99.99 each.

An app that never updates, has no ratings and says nothing in its description made the social charts in three countries and stayed on India's Top Grossing chart. The reason isn't in the app.

Who it is: the third package from the Lunzo team

Hazz's developer account is called "Variety magic outfit", with a Gmail contact address. The same account has two more apps:

Hazz's privacy policy is hosted at lunzoap.com/hazz_privacy_policy.html, on Lunzo's domain. So Hazz is clearly a new package from the Lunzo team, and it almost certainly uses the same backend, payments and probably hosts (inferred).

What Lunzo is like shows in its older users' reviews. Lunzo Lite has 3.1 stars and 1,570 reviews on Google Play. The most-upvoted "helpful" review (Jun 1) says:

"Please change the call time, 1 minutes isn't enough. Diamonds are too expensive. Give at least 2 minutes per call."

Lunzo itself has 3.4 stars. Its one-star review from Aug 6 is only one line: "this app is fraud". So this is a product that bills "diamonds" per minute for video chats with strangers (mostly platform hosts), with a store rating of 17+.

One package isn't enough, so five go up together

Searching Google Play for social packages whose IDs start with cc., five look-alike apps appeared between Sep 9 and 20:

Package names all follow "cc.shortword.shortword". In-app purchases are all $1.49 – $99.99. Versions are stuck at 1.0.0 or 1.0.1. The charting countries are all Saudi Arabia, UAE and India. The privacy policies are the same 12 template, with filenames like "name_privacy_policy.html". Hazz, Huppi and Eilo even share the identical last sentence, "We will not reduce your rights without your explicit consent". Several developer account names look randomly assembled, and the "organization" listed in the privacy policies is a small US company unrelated to social apps, such as J.B MOVING AND HAULING LLC or RE Operations LLC. This looks like bought or rented enterprise developer accounts (inferred).

From the outside you can't tell whether the five packages share one owner. It's also possible one listing service is handling several clients at once. That Hazz and Lunzo are the same company is certain.

Put the five packages' install curves side by side and they take turns getting traffic. Aello basically stops growing after Oct 4, as if it was tested and abandoned. Ferri jumped by 27k from 10-22 to 10-24. Hazz added 61k in one week from 10-19 to 10-26, the biggest wave in this batch. Huppi jumped once at the end of October and once in early November. Eilo jumped by 26k from 10-27 to 11-03 (third-party estimated curve since launch). Running several packages at once means budget goes to whichever gets approved and shows good numbers; when one is taken down, the next takes its place. Teams running 1v1 video chat abroad usually operate this way.

Where the traffic comes from: steps, level by level

Hazz's installs don't form a straight line; they form steps:

Traffic from word of mouth and search doesn't switch on and off like this. It looks more like paid acquisition budget being turned on and off in bursts (inferred). Three points back this up: it only charts in three countries, Saudi Arabia, UAE and India; searching "hazz app" on TikTok returns a same-named Turkish app, and in the last 30 days X had 0 posts mentioning Hazz or Lunzo, with no organic content to be found on social media; and 137k installs with not a single rating means users come and don't stay much, and the team hasn't bothered to ask for ratings. Public sources don't reveal whether the money went to Google or Meta, or how much was spent.

Where the money comes from: coins, and high-ticket Gulf users

These apps charge in a fixed way: registration and matching are free, video calls are billed per minute in coins (Lunzo calls them "diamonds"), gifts also cost coins, and coins must be topped up. Hazz's in-app purchases run from $1.49 to $99.99 per tier, and the most expensive tier is for big spenders.

Why target Saudi Arabia and the UAE: users there have high spending power and strong, steady demand for video chat with the opposite sex, so first top-ups can cover acquisition costs. Why add India: high volume and cheap acquisition, used to build scale. Hazz has been live for under two months and has stayed at #88 – #106 on India's social Top Grossing chart, which shows people are actually topping up. Its revenue isn't visible from outside.

This business doesn't depend on retention. It works as long as a user's first top-up is more than what it cost to buy them. The Lunzo Lite review, "1 minutes isn't enough, diamonds are too expensive", describes the model exactly: get people to pay, and the faster they pay, the better.

Who it's competing with

1v1 video chat is one of the most cutthroat categories for Chinese teams going global, with new packages named around video chat, talk and call crowding Google Play.

On product, Hazz is indistinguishable from these rivals. Name, icon and description are all generic, which helps it pass review and makes swapping skins in bulk easy. Its edge over the others is the parent: Lunzo already reached 4M installs, so backend, hosts, payments and risk control are ready, and several developer accounts can be run at once.

If it were you

One-line verdict: don't follow. Hazz is one part of a mature team's pipeline, not a product you can copy.

Who it suits: companies already running global 1v1 video social apps, with host supply, payment channels and a paid-acquisition team. For you, the playbook to borrow is: one backend behind N package names, N developer accounts and N privacy-policy domains; test small, then pile budget onto whichever runs best, and swap in the next when one is taken down. Target high-ticket countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE only, and top up volume with India.

Who it doesn't suit: indie developers and small teams. What you lack is exactly what followers can't get: hosts (or the fact that "someone is waiting online for your video" itself), payment processing that can absorb high refunds and chargebacks, a budget that can sustain rotating multiple packages for paid acquisition, and a stock of accounts ready to replace ones Google bans. Without these, what you build is a video chat app where nobody picks up.

If you just want to learn: take three things and apply them to other categories. First, multi-package testing with concentrated budget; second, targeting only the two or three countries with the highest spending power; third, keep store copy generic and avoid frequent updates to lower review risk. These hold up in categories like paid tools and AI companionship, where the first top-up pays back the cost.

How to get users: like it does, you can only buy them. This category has almost no organic content on social media, so SEO and word of mouth won't carry you.

When it would've been wrong: There's no window here. This category has been crowded for years, and through H2 2026 a new disposable app has launched almost every month.

What would prove the read wrong: If Hazz is still around three months from now, shipping updates, its ratings climbing, and it's expanded beyond Saudi Arabia, the UAE and India, then it may be run as a real product rather than a throwaway shell app. If instead it stops growing next month, gets pulled, or gets replaced by a new cc. package, that confirms this take.