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My website was built with such brand-name technologies as "HSTS" and "Viewport Meta"[1]. Hmm. I guess it's meant more for web applications that leak their implementation details or reference vendor resources, somehow? [1]: https://builtwith.com/yossarian.net
You run on DO, use Google Workplace and nginx web server per your link details. That’s definitely info I’d like to know if I was a sales rep for AWS, Microsoft Office or Caddy Pro.
Genuine 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…
This doesn’t seem like a paid promotion piece, although it could be. I don’t see any direct connection between the author and the company/founder. It’s an interesting read, and likely brings some marginally additional traffic to the site, so I don’t see any negative exposure here. Perhaps the founder is considering an exit?
I also don't mean to bring harm to the founder. I'm sure he's created scrapers, historical data, and built loyalty that's difficult to replicate
If there's something about this story that I got wrong or if it wasn't as helpful as I intended, do please let me know though!
Who 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.
“No idea like this had existed, and the domain BuiltWith was somehow not taken already. Gary began building scrapers and his database of technologies.” I hate this paragraph. It doesn’t mention any domain names but also makes the assumption that com is the only one?
But thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure I clarify in future posts
Yes it is possible to build multimillion $ companies with a very small team. imagine all the time you save in meetings.
Don'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 conten…
Don'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 conten…
You can hire without hiring! Use other SaaS or even human services for every spot you would normally hire someone.
just a reminder, whether this is an urban legend or not: 1) the pie is big enough, you just have to convince pie holders to give their pieces to you 2) you only need one client to generate all revenue, but many small clients is more intuitive 3) there are many individuals and companies sitting on large revenue streams. headlines come from people that need to advertise, not the ones that don’t.
Then you just have to find your slice