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#api-costs case studies
2 sourced case studies tagged #api-costs. Every number links inline to the page it came from; self-reported figures are labelled as such.
- Formula Bot: a weekend no-code app, one Reddit post, and a $4–5K API bill
- Bolt.new: a near-dead dev-tools startup that reached ~$40M ARR in five months
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Formula Bot: a weekend no-code app, one Reddit post, and a $4–5K API bill
David Bressler built Excel Formula Bot in Bubble over a weekend. A Reddit post brought 100,000 visitors overnight and a surprise OpenAI bill before pricing was in place.
aino-codebubble
Developer tools5 sources · 2 min
Bolt.new: a near-dead dev-tools startup that reached ~$40M ARR in five months
StackBlitz spent seven years on in-browser dev environments, was close to shutting down, then launched an AI app builder on top of that tech in October 2024. Growth figures are founder-reported.
aivibe-codingpivot
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