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Funny thing is I have known about some of these companies since about a few years. I distinctly remember seeing Ghost's revenue (around $40K) and thinking, "umm.. that doesn't seem much to go around five people."; watching Hubstaff numbers (which was ~$80K/month, I believe), and saying to myself, "that's a very niche software. Would it ever go to make revenue that justifies expenses of a team?" (I think the CEO menti…
I'm like 99% sure that Carrd makes more than $4k/mo [0]. Those numbers in that tweet would put him at around $12k/mo. I could be wrong though. [0]: https://twitter.com/ajlkn/status/1080163380990746626
Funny thing is I have known about some of these companies since about a few years. I distinctly remember seeing Ghost's revenue (around $40K) and thinking, "umm.. that doesn't seem much to go around five people."; watching Hubstaff numbers (which was ~$80K/month, I believe), and saying to myself, "that's a very niche software. Would it ever go to make revenue that justifies expenses of a team?" (I think the CEO menti…
I think the takeaway for founders is being prepared for this and learning to not weight external pessimism all that highly, particularly not of the low-brow dismissal variety (what are the general odds that someone who has known about a business for 180 seconds has found the fatal flaw). For the broader community, I think the takeaway is intentionally being almost unreasonably supportive of people building things.
Wow, what a wasteland of garbage. Hard to believe that any of these are getting investment or making money—-none of them produces anything remotely of value to the human condition. Where are the startups making actual valuable innovative products and solving real problems?
I'm like 99% sure that Carrd makes more than $4k/mo [0]. Those numbers in that tweet would put him at around $12k/mo. I could be wrong though. [0]: https://twitter.com/ajlkn/status/1080163380990746626
I pulled that number from an older post. Updated!
Wow, what a wasteland of garbage. Hard to believe that any of these are getting investment or making money—-none of them produces anything remotely of value to the human condition. Where are the startups making actual valuable innovative products and solving real problems?
Thanks for putting this together!
I'm like 99% sure that Carrd makes more than $4k/mo [0]. Those numbers in that tweet would put him at around $12k/mo. I could be wrong though. [0]: https://twitter.com/ajlkn/status/1080163380990746626
Zero marketing afaik. Just simplicity combined with a constantly improving product.
A quote from Joel Spolsky springs to mind: “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”