today marks the 4th anniversary of our getting into yc
- applied with an idea we thought would be "the next whatsapp"
- got into w23 with roughly $70 in MRR
- our partner said: "this is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard"
- tanked our demo day
- raised only $120k while many batchmates raised $2m+
- took 8 pivots to find pmf
- $263 in monthly revenue in our first month with
@magicpatterns
- took a year+ to reach $10k mrr
- hit $1m ARR over the next 7 months (profitable) with two people
- raised our series A
- got a proper office
- hired people
- started closing more enterprise deals
- worked with ramp, granola, doordash + many more interesting logos
- built a ~20 person team across two offices
tl;dr: getting accepted into yc changed my life!
also made us realize "just don’t die" is more than generic startup wisdom that's passed around because it sounds cool.