$30K MRR From a Weekend Build by Someone Who Can't Code, $503 From Voice-to-Text, and the LinkedIn Tool Born From Job Offers

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Startups FYI Spotlight

Here are the startups that made it to the top of the list in this week's edition.

🌙 Moonmap (Pre-revenue): This tool runs the funnel analysis that used to eat your whole afternoon and tells you the single most profitable ad to increase budget money on. 

🎫 Way2In (Pre-revenue): This easy-to-use tool handles event ticketing, virtual stages, attendance, and post-event stats in a single platform, for physical, virtual, or hybrid events. 

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Maya Shaff, ŌURA. Leah Walker, Adobe. Georgia Humphries, Stanley 1913. Enara Roy, Halfday. Tyler Vaught, Edelman. Josh Rangel, Ogilvy. Sarah Whittle, ex-Crocs and Duolingo. 

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💼 Linkgenie ($150): The founder landed multiple jobs just by posting on LinkedIn consistently. Now his AI assistant writes story-led posts for you, so you can stay consistent without staring at a blank box. 

🎤 MindNote ($503): Feed this tool your voice, a YouTube video, or a photo of handwritten notes, and it turns any of them into written text.

💬 Auralis AI ($100K): A conversational AI that handles high volumes of customer support queries across every channel at once.

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Startups FYI Roundup 

⚡ He Lost a $10M ARR Business. Two Weeks Later He Was Earning Again.

Proxycurl was shut down after a legal battle, taking a $10M ARR business with it. Instead of disappearing, Steven Goh went back to the drawing board and built another tool - NinjaPear from scratch in two weeks. Revenue started coming in almost immediately.

🛠️ He Almost Killed Kit at $1,000 MRR. Now It Does $50M+ a Year.

Nathan Barry nearly pulled the plug on ConvertKit when revenue fell to around $1,000 a month. He stuck with it, rebranded it to Kit, and built it past $50M ARR without taking venture money. 

In this conversation with Dan Putt he gets into the harder part: how you actually lead at that size, make decisions under uncertainty, and find the purpose underneath the company.

⚡ $30K MRR From a Product Built in a Weekend by Someone Who Can't Code 

Hasaam Bhatti failed at ten or twelve products before this one, because he kept building for audiences he didn't belong to. 

Then he built Launch Fast in 48 hours using Cursor, pitched a coaching community that already had thousands of Amazon sellers, and hit $10K MRR in 30 days. It's at $30K now. His line is worth stealing: fifty percent of something real beats one hundred percent of nothing shipped.

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Here are the startups that made it to the top of the list in this week's edition.

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