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Wow, what an inspiring story? Care to share any stats, such as team size, when you hit your first ARR milestones, or anything else?
by _1tem 2y ago
Wow, what an inspiring story? Care to share any stats, such as team size, when you hit your first ARR milestones, or anything else?
- ignoramous 2y agoToday, we're a team of 250+ people and seen that initial "Show HN" grow into a $20mn+ bootstrapped business (no VC funding). If anyone's interested in reading more, I've blogged this journey (from launch to now) on our website [0] from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23466470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23466470 (2020) [0] clicky: https://vwo.com/blog/vwo-evolution-10-years/ https://vwo.com/blog/vwo-evolution-10-years/
- sureglymop 2y agoI checked out the explainer video from 15 years ago in the linked blog post. It's crazy but this would still get me interested even today! Wow.
- paraschopra 2y agoWe hit our first million in 18 months when we were ~10 (I think). My first milestone was $1000 (my salary before starting Wingify). The first month I launched, made $4000 and it kept doubling from there for a while. I remember being glued to the customer and revenue chart for the first few years. I had even coded a small utility to make a small ka-ching sound on my laptop whenever we get a new customer :)
- sebastiennight 2y agoHa ha, I had coded the same kind of utility in 2007 in my first business, to send me an SMS whenever there was a purchase. (and my phone was set up to go "ka-ching!" for SMSes from that number) Turns out I had a bug in my code, and I got a text every time someone visited the page, which meant at the end of launch day I had lost money by paying more in SMS fees than I made in sales for the day!