Re:BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
by ayewo on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:43AM
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That's likely because this is a blast from the past.
Someone mentioned [0] his HN handle up-thread [1] and linked to his complaint in 2015 about spam from BuiltWith [2] where the founder responded with an apology and a way to remove his site from their index.
Once I understood that value of BuiltWith myself, I absolutely felt the same way about Dan's characterisation of BuiltWith as "brilliantly simple and profitable".
0: He likely found about via an email notification from a neat tool he made for just this purpose http://hnreplies.com
Someone mentioned [0] his HN handle up-thread [1] and linked to his complaint in 2015 about spam from BuiltWith [2] where the founder responded with an apology and a way to remove his site from their index.
Once I understood that value of BuiltWith myself, I absolutely felt the same way about Dan's characterisation of BuiltWith as "brilliantly simple and profitable".
0: He likely found about via an email notification from a neat tool he made for just this purpose http://hnreplies.com
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33185733
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10316060