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Re:The New American Micro-SaaS Dream by alberth on Monday July 04, 2022 @10:24PM (#31983667)
Some bootstrapped examples.

Lemlist is doing $10m, only 3.5 years after launch.

https://blog.lempire.com/from-0-to-150m-valuation-in-3-5-yea...

Plausible got to $1M in 4 years.

https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-saas

Hey (email) did $5m in first year of launching service.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/16/21293156/hey-email-servic...

There’s a bunch others.

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Re:The New American Micro-SaaS Dream by eutropia on Monday July 04, 2022 @11:57PM (#31984156)
Hey was created by Basecamp.

Sort of the opposite of a startup.

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Re:The New American Micro-SaaS Dream by alberth on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:59AM (#31986700)
Aren’t bootstrapped companies in general the opposite of a startup?
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Re:The New American Micro-SaaS Dream by lolinder on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:38AM (#31987477)
Their point is that Hey was a new product by an established company (20+ years in), not a new company at all.
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Re:The New American Micro-SaaS Dream by chayesfss on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @07:35AM (#31999429)
No, every company was a startup regardless of initial funding
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