With 0 employees who maintains the site/infra or adds features/datasets? Things aren't adding up in this article.
Gary does that.
BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
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#12With 0 employees who maintains the site/infra or adds features/datasets? Things aren't adding up in this article.
With 0 employees, why have the office with all the desks in the background in the picture at the top of the page.
It’s pretty clear there are other people doing something, whether they are called “employees” or not.
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#13With 0 employees who maintains the site/infra or adds features/datasets? Things aren't adding up in this article.
0 employees doesn’t mean 0 contractors or 0 agencies on contract.
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#14The key takeaway for me was that the mid-2000s were the perfect time to be a founder of a software tool. I can’t help but feel that there are so many tens of thousands of similar stories without such a successful conclusion.
In previous roles I’ve used BuiltWith before and it’s an invaluable tool. There’s a few companies with similar approaches except focusing on social media profiles (HypeAuditor comes to mind) that spawned in (iirc) 2017 after Instagram made significant changes to what data were available through their API.
It seems similar that Etherscan had this type of first mover advantage with automated data indexing and basic discovery tools for the Ethereum blockchain.
I wonder what the next wave of straightforward software utilities will be like.
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#15Don't hire until you need to.
And then don't hire until you want to.
I'm doubtful every business can make it to $14M ARR, but I bet many companies could generate $1M ARR without needing employees. And that amount of money would be life-changing for many people (with, of course, the potential to sell what you've created to exit).
I've spent much of my life chasing the "make it big" startup dream. I'll be pretty content if I can generate meaningful recurring revenue by building things I love. Still trying to decouple hours worked from the paycheck.
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#16Genuine 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 generati…
Because it's one thing to find a niche and another thing is to make money in it.
For instance, I make software that help Private Equity firms find deals. I can't use it myself, because it requires a completely different set of skills.
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#17Genuine 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 generati…
I think the only person who can answer that question is the founder. I would posit: if you had that much money what else can you buy besides bragging rights? This coverage wasn’t even bought as far as I can tell.
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#18I remember stumbling across this site years ago, thought it was neat, and never thought about it again.
There's definitely a lot of untapped potential here. Could be so much bigger with marketing and R&D. A browser extension for example.
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#19If they have no employees, why do they have 4 workstations and a conference room with a whiteboard?
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#20"In 2006, Gary Brewer attended a startup conference in Sydney..."
Wow, just learned that BuiltWith is 16 years old. Always just assumed it must have been built in the last 5 years or so.