Founder stories
11 founders who reached milestones in under 1 month
On March 1st 2023, OpenAI announced the ChatGPT API. Right on that day, I came up with the idea to create a new UI to solve my own pain points with th...
After selling my previous AI company Headlime for seven figures, I took time off in 2021. I was growing increasingly bored when an idea struck me: why...
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...
I built Fantasy Congress as a side project - a fantasy sports game but for politics. It went viral and taught me everything about building in public....
I validated Buffer with a landing page before writing any code. Within 4 days of tweeting about it, I had my first paying customer. The Validation...
Pierre de Wulf and his co-founder Kevin met in high school. After building ShopToList and PricingBot with limited success, they went all-in on Scrapin...
Erwin had two failed projects before Tailscan. He gave himself a week to build something and showcase it on Twitter. Viral Demo His demo got 70,...
Glow AI launched on November 7th, reached $10K MRR by November 9th, and accumulated 32,000 downloads in just 3 days. Influencer Equity Strategy...
Madhu Pattarambil, a Sydney chemical engineer with no startup background, shipped a free AI travel app in 17 languages in two weeks, funded entirely by travel affiliate commissions.
A DocuPanda cofounder set out to prove you can build a small SaaS that takes real money in under 24 hours, and walked through doing exactly that with a PDF redaction tool.
Crystal Harrison spent almost 25 years watching freelancers get blindsided by tax bills. She used an AI dev tool to build SnapTax in evenings and weekends, and reached her first 3 paying customers eight weeks after launch.
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