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First customer via Other
9 founders who reached First customer using Other
Key Statistics
Stories
9
Avg Time
4 months
Fastest
0 days
Solo
56%
Top growth channel
Other (9)
BB
Brianna Blaney & Dr. Aria Hahn
From an oversubscribed alpha to $2M+ in funding for our startup
We started Pocketed during the pandemic to help startups find grants and funding they didn't know existed. The Idea During COVID, there was sudd...
First customer in 0 days·Team
SaaSFinanceVancouver, BC, Canada
Cassey Ho
How a Farewell YouTube Video for 40 Students Became a Multi-Million Dollar Fitness Empire
Cassey Ho posted one Pilates video for her 40 students before moving cross-country. It accidentally became the #1 female fitness channel on YouTube with 500M+ views.
$20M/yr·First customer in 2 years·Solo
OtherHealth & wellness🇺🇸 US
Thomas Frank
how thomas frank made $1m/year selling notion templates
After a decade making content, Thomas Frank made $1 million in a single year selling Notion templates, with the line peaking at $100k a month in one-time template sales.
First customer in 0 days·Solo
Info productProductivityColorado, USA
Kyan Santiago-Calling
How ToneAdapt turned one guitar demo into a $25K/month app
Kyan Santiago-Calling built ToneAdapt as a fast guitar-tone matching project, then used TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, and relentless short-form demos to reach 100,000+ users and a reported $25K/month revenue run-rate.
$210K/yr·First customer in 1 month·Solo
Mobile appEducation🇺🇸 US
ED
Emanuele Di Pietro
How Emanuele Di Pietro turned a midnight Codex remote into Remodex's $10K first month
Emanuele Di Pietro turned a midnight challenge to control Codex from iPhone into Remodex, a local-first open-source remote that reached about $10K revenue in its first month.
First customer in 1 days·Solo
Mobile appDeveloper toolsNaples, Italy
JZ
Jason Zigelbaum
How Zigpoll reached $125K MRR by owning Shopify feedback surveys as a solo founder
Jason Zigelbaum turned ecommerce feedback pain into Zigpoll, stayed solo, and compounded to about $125K MRR by doubling down on Shopify merchants, agency operators, pricing fit, and customer-led product requests.
$1.5M/yr·First customer in 7 days·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Kristo Käärmann
Wise launched with a one pound fee and had customers moving money in seven days
TransferWise went live on 24 January 2011 with a flat one pound fee and one TechCrunch post. Seven days later the founders reported customers moving money between eight countries.
$1.2B/yr·First customer in 7 days·Team
MarketplaceFinance🇬🇧 GB
Matthieu Rouif
Two weeks from the first commit to a paid app: how Matthieu Rouif started Photoroom
Matthieu Rouif and Eliot Andres shipped the first version of Photoroom, then called BG, fourteen days after the first line of code, with subscriptions already wired in. It now processes more than 7 billion images a year.
$50M/yr·First customer in 14 days·Team
Mobile appDesign🇫🇷 FR
MB
Mike Beckham
Six months of research, then the first Simple Modern bottle sold
Mike Beckham and two co-founders put $200,000 into a drinkware brand competing with Yeti. The first bottle sold about six months later, and 24 million followed in seven years.
$200M/yr·First customer in 7 months·Team
OtherE-commerce🇺🇸 US
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Stories9
Avg Time4 months
Fastest0 days
Technical78%