{"id":977833,"date":"2025-12-02T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977833"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:41:37","slug":"internets-catgpts-landline-style-phone-goes-viral-zillennial-founder-generates-280000-selling-bluetooth-landlines-to-combat-screen-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/02\/internets-catgpts-landline-style-phone-goes-viral-zillennial-founder-generates-280000-selling-bluetooth-landlines-to-combat-screen-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet&#8217;s CatGPT&#8217;s landline-style phone goes viral; \u2018Zillennial\u2019 founder generates $280,000 selling Bluetooth &#8216;landlines&#8217; to combat screen time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cat Goetze, a tech founder known online as &#8220;CatGPT,&#8221; has turned a personal quest for nostalgia into a six-figure business, banking on a generation\u2019s desire to disconnect. According to a report by CNBC Make It, Goetze\u2019s startup, Physical Phones, generated $120,000 in sales in its first three days after going viral on social media in July 2025. By the end of October, the business had sold over 3,000 units, totaling $280,000 in revenue. The product\u2014a retro-styled handset that looks like a traditional landline but connects to smartphones via Bluetooth\u2014was born out of Goetze\u2019s desire to reduce her own screen time without sacrificing connectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cat Goetze, a tech founder known online as &#8220;CatGPT,&#8221; has turned a personal quest for nostalgia into a six-figure business, banking on a generation\u2019s desire to disconnect. According to a report by CNBC Make It, Goetze\u2019s startup, Physical Phones, generated $120,000 in sales in its first three days after going viral on social media in July 2025. By the end of October, the business had sold over 3,000 units, totaling $280,000 in revenue. The product\u2014a retro-styled handset that looks like a traditional landline but connects to smartphones via Bluetooth\u2014was born out of Goetze\u2019s desire to reduce her own screen time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}