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#timing case studies
4 sourced case studies tagged #timing. Every number links inline to the page it came from; self-reported figures are labelled as such.
- TrustMRR: built in under 24 hours as a reply to one tweet, $20,378 in 3 days
- Artifact: Instagram's founders shut down their AI news app after a year
- Bolt.new: a near-dead dev-tools startup that reached ~$40M ARR in five months
- Chatbase: a 'ChatGPT for your PDFs' side project that reached $64K MRR in three months
TrustMRR: built in under 24 hours as a reply to one tweet, $20,378 in 3 days
Marc Lou built a verified-revenue leaderboard after Pieter Levels complained about fake MRR screenshots. Ad slots sold out in three days.
Artifact: Instagram's founders shut down their AI news app after a year
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launched an AI-personalised news reader in 2023 and wound it down a year later because the market looked too small. Yahoo then bought the technology.
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.
Chatbase: a 'ChatGPT for your PDFs' side project that reached $64K MRR in three months
A final-year student tweeted an AI document chat tool to 16 followers in February 2023, rode the ChatGPT wave, then moved upmarket into customer-support agents to survive the copycats.