Savvy is HQ Trivia + Wordle (feat. Scott Rogowsky) | E2245

Watch on YouTube ↗ | February 04, 2026 at 23:53 | 51:35 | This Week in Startups

Speakers

Scott Rogowsky — Co-founder and CMO, Savvy

Trevor Bennett — Co-founder, Starfish Space

Summary

Scott Rogowsky joins to discuss the rise and fall of HQ Trivia and his new live mobile word game Savvy, including early traction and subscription-based monetization. Trevor Bennett of Starfish Space then explains the Otter servicing spacecraft, recent autonomous rendezvous and docking milestones, and a $52.5M Space Development Agency disposal contract. The conversation covers the growing space economy, satellite servicing and debris removal, communications demand, and launch cost and availability trends.

Scott Rogowsky recounts HQ Trivia's viral growth and rapid decline, citing lack of product iteration and inexperienced leadership.
Scott is now co-founder and CMO of Savvy, a live interactive word game inspired by Wordle where the host plays against the audience.
Savvy has early metrics including 2,100 concurrent users, 11,000 iOS downloads, and plans for subscription monetization and cash rewards.
Trevor Bennett describes Starfish Space's Otter spacecraft, which can autonomously rendezvous and dock with satellites.
Starfish's business model is service-based, with contracts from the Space Development Agency and Space Force.
Trevor outlines space economy trends: space-to-space business, new use cases, and broader commercial access.
He also highlights satellite servicing and disposal as scalable markets driven by constellation growth.
Launch costs have fallen and availability has improved, supporting more space activity even without further cost declines.

Ideas

Scott Rogowsky Co-founder and CMO, Savvy 0:25

Early-stage live word game with traction.

Savvy is a live interactive mobile word game where the host plays against the audience, inspired by Wordle's ability to let everyone feel smart. Scott says the product has early traction—2,100 concurrent users at its series premiere, 71% growth from the prior beta, 11,000 iOS downloads, and top-30 App Store ranking in the word category—and differentiates itself with co-founders from mobile gaming, planned subscription monetization, in-game cash rewards, and a Fortnite-style skins/badges model. He is personally all-in and promoting the app.

Trevor Bennett Co-founder, Starfish Space 23:33

Small servicing spacecraft with validated contracts.

Starfish Space is building Otter, a small 300 kg spacecraft that can autonomously rendezvous and dock with other satellites using a single lightweight camera and on-board software. Its Nautilus capture mechanism can attach to any spacecraft geometry without modifying the target, and Starfish plans to own and operate the fleet as a service rather than selling spacecraft, which lets it keep improving autonomy across the fleet. The company has validated the tech with the Remora autonomous rendezvous and Otter Prop 2, and has won a $52.5M Space Development Agency disposal contract plus a prior $37M Space Force contract.

Trevor Bennett Co-founder, Starfish Space 24:14

In-orbit servicing scales with constellations.

Satellite servicing and disposal are becoming scalable commercial markets because constellations are deploying hundreds to tens of thousands of satellites, end-of-life disposal is needed to keep orbit usable, and life extension can let satellites operate beyond their original design life. Historically these missions were one-off or high-value only, but Starfish aims to make docking and servicing everyday and repeatable, which scales with constellation growth and creates recurring service revenue.

Trevor Bennett Co-founder, Starfish Space 44:13

Space becoming its own growing economy.

Space is becoming its own economy and ecosystem, with space-to-space business models, expanding use cases beyond communications such as manufacturing, LEO destinations, cloud computing, and AI, and broader commercial access beyond a few superpowers. This creates a growing opportunity set for companies providing infrastructure and services in orbit.

Trevor Bennett Co-founder, Starfish Space 45:10

Data demand drives satellite communications growth.

Satellite communications remains a mainstay that is not going away and is only increasing as the species becomes hungrier for data; finding ways to get more data is always going to be a win. This supports continued demand for satellite communications capacity and related infrastructure.

Trevor Bennett Co-founder, Starfish Space 46:47

Launch availability supports broader space growth.

Launch costs have already fallen significantly, and even without further reductions there is room for the space economy to grow. Availability is even more important than cost, with regular Transporter missions every three months and additional launch providers expected to add capacity, supporting more space infrastructure and services.

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This This Week in Startups video, published February 04, 2026, features Scott Rogowsky, Trevor Bennett discussing Savvy, Starfish Space, Satellite servicing, Space debris removal, WSPC.SW, Satellite communications, Space launch services. 6 trade ideas extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.

Speakers: Scott Rogowsky, Trevor Bennett · Tickers: Savvy, Starfish Space, Satellite servicing, Space debris removal, WSPC.SW, Satellite communications, Space launch services