🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here.

This week I bring you interviews with Upvoty and GoRails' founders and three curated resources.

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content 📚

💰 Bootstrapping a user feedback SaaS to $20k/mo in 3 years. Mike is the founder of Upvoty. He launched it in 2019 and reached $1k in MRR in only 2 months.

Since then, he has been growing it along with a fully remote team of 8, and has recently hit the $20k/mo milestone (& growing 5%/mo). Here's how to bootstrap a B2B SaaS.​

Btw, Mike is currently doing an AMA at Indie Hackers. You can ask him all of your questions here.

️🚀 Growing a Ruby on Rails educational site to $60k MRR. 7 years ago, Chris solo-founded GoRails. He has since been running the business alone while growing it to $60,000 in MRR.

But Chris has lately been struggling to handle all himself, which is why he's currently focused on building a team of developers and customer support agents. Here's how to build a developer-related membership site.​

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what I'm reading 👀

​How expensive is Y Combinator? YC is probably the most impactful institution for the creation of new startups. However, it's definitely not ideal for all founders. In this article, the author explains how YC drives founders to build companies "the Bay Area needs", not the ones they may have wanted to build.

​Discord: Imagine a place. Discord has grown crazily in the last year and has recently been in talks to be acquired by Microsoft. In this huge article, Packy McCormick and Mario Gabriele do a deep analysis of the company, with a particular focus on the app's relation with the crypto and web3 community.

​MicroAcquire Academy. Andrew Gazdecki has recently launched a series of short videos explaining the whole process of selling a startup, from attracting offers and preparing for an acquisition, to negotiating and closing deals.

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That's all for this week. My university exams are finishing soon, so in the following weeks, I'll have much more time to work on Failory. You can expect lots of new things ;)

Cheers,

Nico

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