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Re: Manus AI 100M USD ARR

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Post by giorgioz » Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 9:17 AM UTC

3rodents wrote: post #5

Setting aside the veracity of the $100m claim: Manus is a spin out of a spin out, building on ~10 years of previous work. The “fastest company to 100m arr” has become a meme so it doesn’t deserve much scrutiny but it seems a somewhat tenuous claim in this case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manus_(AI_agent)

After 10 years of hard work, it was an "instant" success.

Re: Manus AI 100M USD ARR

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Post by koakuma-chan » Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 9:18 AM UTC

moomoo11 wrote: post #4

So what do they do?

Probably just another AI website generator, like v0 and lovable. Probably no difference.

Re: Manus AI 100M USD ARR

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Post by koakuma-chan » Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 9:18 AM UTC

How much ARR openrouter has?

Re: Manus AI 100M USD ARR

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Post by the_duke » Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 9:25 AM UTC

HotGarbage wrote: post #2

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With a bit of education one would know that manus is Latin for hand. That's where "manual" comes from.

And their logo is, lo and behold ... a hand!

Re: Manus AI 100M USD ARR

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Post by zatkin » Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 9:33 AM UTC

HotGarbage wrote: post #2

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Yikes.

Re: Manus AI 100M USD ARR

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Post by nrhrjrjrjtntbt » Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 9:33 AM UTC

mertbio wrote: post #9

The thing about ARR numbers is that in most cases they didn't really recur, especially for an 8-month-old company. Also, I don't really care about these numbers anymore unless they share how much they spent on marketing.

Yes if they are losing on unit economics can they make it up on scale (facetious saying but there may be truth to it for some AI startups)

Re: Manus AI 100M USD ARR

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Post by nrhrjrjrjtntbt » Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 9:36 AM UTC

the_duke wrote: post #14

HotGarbage wrote: post #2

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With a bit of education one would know that manus is Latin for hand. That's where "manual" comes from. And their logo is, lo and behold ... a hand!

So it is the Ancient Romans who were obsessed with butts. Got it.

Re: Manus AI 100M USD ARR

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Post by fifticon » Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 9:38 AM UTC

the_duke wrote: post #14

HotGarbage wrote: post #2

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With a bit of education one would know that manus is Latin for hand. That's where "manual" comes from. And their logo is, lo and behold ... a hand!

but where has that hand BEEN? And we are back at -anus again.

Re: Manus AI 100M USD ARR

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Post by echelon » Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 9:46 AM UTC

koakuma-chan wrote: post #13

How much ARR openrouter has?

I would wager much more.

Is this the capacity most people are using Manus in? I'd imagine it's the higher level stuff.

Re: Manus AI 100M USD ARR

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Post by HendrikHensen » Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 9:50 AM UTC

the_duke wrote: post #14

HotGarbage wrote: post #2

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With a bit of education one would know that manus is Latin for hand. That's where "manual" comes from. And their logo is, lo and behold ... a hand!

Since it's an AI company, and not actually doing anything by hand, it wouldn't surprise me if they came up with the name "manus" because it has "anus" in it, and then designed the hand logo due to the Latin meaning of the name. [this is a sarcasm, in case that was not clear]