🚀 AI APIs up to 87% off — Try it free →
Arrfounder
Real Founders. Real Revenue.

The database of verified startup revenues and founder profiles

Tweet by @nikolak47: it took us: - around 10 dead startups before this one worked - 5 brutal months stuck at $8K MRR -…

Nick Velkovski
ARR: $20.5M
Nick Velkovski@nikolak47·Nov 14, 2026, 4:09 PM UTC
it took us:

- around 10 dead startups before this one worked
- 5 brutal months stuck at $8K MRR
- 597 sales calls to figure out who we were for
- 10 investors telling us no
- 2 rejection emails from YC
- 6 months from niching down to $1M ARR
- 882 days from launch to $10M ARR

today @heyreach_io is at $19M ARR. fully bootstrapped.

people see the $19M and scroll right past the 882 days.
13
1
100
View on X