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Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees

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Post by h0l0cube » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 2:42 AM UTC

snorkel wrote: post #53

O__________O wrote: post #26

$14M ARR appears to be urban legend. If anyone has a source that’s the founder saying this, please reply with a link. ___________ This tweet appears to be the source of the legend: >> “BuiltWith is an amazing site that I use regularly. But it's also an amazing business. 1 fulltime employee. $14m a year in revenue. [...] Disclaimer: I do not know 100% if this is true.” Source: - https://twitter.com/thesamparr/status/1…

Based on the price card posted on the website, assuming there’s 4000 active paying customers each paying $300/month, that gets you to $14M/year

Off by an order of magnitude - 1.2M

Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees

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Post by gkoberger » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 2:44 AM UTC

h0l0cube wrote: post #111

snorkel wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on the price card posted on the website, assuming there’s 4000 active paying customers each paying $300/month, that gets you to $14M/year

Off by an order of magnitude - 1.2M

$300 * 12 months * 4,000 customers = $14M

I'm not saying it's true or not, but the math works. You're (roughly) calculating MRR, not ARR.

Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees

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Post by rossriley » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 2:45 AM UTC

h0l0cube wrote: post #111

snorkel wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on the price card posted on the website, assuming there’s 4000 active paying customers each paying $300/month, that gets you to $14M/year

Off by an order of magnitude - 1.2M

Don't forget to multiply by 12 for yearly revenue.

Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 2:47 AM UTC

h0l0cube wrote: post #111

snorkel wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on the price card posted on the website, assuming there’s 4000 active paying customers each paying $300/month, that gets you to $14M/year

Off by an order of magnitude - 1.2M

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Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 2:47 AM UTC

h0l0cube wrote: post #111

snorkel wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on the price card posted on the website, assuming there’s 4000 active paying customers each paying $300/month, that gets you to $14M/year

Off by an order of magnitude - 1.2M

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Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees

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Post by weird-eye-issue » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 2:51 AM UTC

BuiltWith has gotten quite good. I tested it on my site and it even correctly detected I use Shutterstock for stock images. We don't credit Shutterstock anywhere (already pay them like $300/mo) so it must actually analyze the images themselves to make this determination

Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees

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Post by nimchimpsky » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 3:00 AM UTC

h0l0cube wrote: post #111

snorkel wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on the price card posted on the website, assuming there’s 4000 active paying customers each paying $300/month, that gets you to $14M/year

Off by an order of magnitude - 1.2M

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Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees

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Post by nimchimpsky » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 3:01 AM UTC

psaux wrote: post #104

brianwawok wrote: post #90

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I mean, I run a startup not doing that much worse. I have 0 accountants (pay CPA yearly for tax work). 0 lawyers. 0 devops. 0 QA. 0 monitoring . 0 HR. I do have : 3 devs (if I include myself) 3 support (tickets) 2 other supporting roles If I coded 100% myself (which I have in the past and could in the future, it would just mean less new features) and had a way to not answer tickets (like the OP story it sounds like d…

That might be SAAS. The other side of the coin is not the same. You do a multi year multi million dollar deal with a fortune 100, don’t expect 0 lawyers, 0 CPA’s.

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Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees

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Post by chillfox » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 3:03 AM UTC

Wronnay wrote: post #71

I tested some of my websites. While I got accurate results for some projects, it showed completely wrong information about other projects... E.g. it shows stuff with which I may experimented for one day but which isn't used on the project since multiple years anymore.

On the "Detailed Technology Profile" tab it shows first/last detected date and there's a tick box for "Hide Removed" on the right.

Re: BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees

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Post by selfhoster11 » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 3:03 AM UTC

xwowsersx wrote: post #73

dangrossman wrote: post #32

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I'm having trouble replicating my own success from that era. Everything is more complicated today: the development stacks, the competitive landscape, the vast increase in regulations and liability around handling data, the move from an open web to social media silos and mobile apps, scammers and bots winning the spam wars and destroying most online advertising. I still have businesses I started in the 2000s and early…

> the vast increase in regulations and liability around handling data, Can you elaborate on this or give examples where these bigger hurdles than they used to be? I'm curious to know in what domains this is the case. I've no doubt that it is true, but my sense was that there are still large swaths of "internety" products that are entirely or mostly unregulated and where there isn't much to be said about how you handl…

GDPR-like regulations certainly come to mind. Which is a good thing - too much unprotected data in one place is a disaster for all involved.