BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
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BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
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Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
#2Who are their major competitors?
At that revenue number and with no innovation and no R&D (zero employees), seems like a no brainer for some smart hacker to replicate and provide the same service for less.
Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
#3Who are their major competitors? At that revenue number and with no innovation and no R&D (zero employees), seems like a no brainer for some smart hacker to replicate and provide the same service for less.
you can't replicate the historical datasets
Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
#4Who are their major competitors? At that revenue number and with no innovation and no R&D (zero employees), seems like a no brainer for some smart hacker to replicate and provide the same service for less.
you can't replicate the historical datasets
Why is the historical dataset needed?
Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
#5Who are their major competitors? At that revenue number and with no innovation and no R&D (zero employees), seems like a no brainer for some smart hacker to replicate and provide the same service for less.
you can't replicate the historical datasets
> you can't replicate the historical datasets
If you start today, tomorrow you'll have history. If you never start, there will be no competition and no historical datasets.
Edit: finished thought
Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
#6Who are their major competitors? At that revenue number and with no innovation and no R&D (zero employees), seems like a no brainer for some smart hacker to replicate and provide the same service for less.
It sorta seems like they won the 'right place at the right time' lotto in getting the links on about us. A competitor might have a huge battle to win that market share.
Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
#7With 0 employees who maintains the site/infra or adds features/datasets? Things aren't adding up in this article.
Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
#8Who are their major competitors? At that revenue number and with no innovation and no R&D (zero employees), seems like a no brainer for some smart hacker to replicate and provide the same service for less.
I agree, It seems risky to not invest in R&D in any company.
Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
#9Genuine question, outside of bragging rights, what advantage does this kind of PR have ?
If you found a niche that no one else has turned into a race to the bottom yet, why would you want the world to know about it ? It's like Warren Buffet telling everyone what stocks he will be picking.
Maybe if the startup was yet to gain traction, this would help get the word out. But from the sounds of it, it is already generating a ton of revenue.
Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
#10Who are their major competitors? At that revenue number and with no innovation and no R&D (zero employees), seems like a no brainer for some smart hacker to replicate and provide the same service for less.
BuiltWith is 16 years old. Their business has been fully commoditized and ripped off so many hundreds of times that most of these "competitors" don't even have names. They're just email addresses in your spam folder. I have literally hundreds of mails that look like this -- "hey, wanna buy a list of every site using your competitors' services, enriched with business info and key employee contacts?".
For example: https://i.imgur.com/V9raPcV.png
The "$14M ARR" appears to be a journalist's guess/estimate of the company's revenue in 2015, which Gary said was an exaggeration, per https://www.ipobase.com/builtwith/
I would bet that BW is long past peak revenue now.