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ShipKit

Maya Patel

Solo dev, $10M ARR, no funding. Here’s the playbook.

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Closer.ai

Leo Tanaka & Ana Ruiz

Two-person team building AI sales agents inside YC W26.

Funded

TeamSync

Rohan Mehta

Building a remote-first SaaS for Indian-origin teams.

Funded

FinFlow

Sara Lindqvist

How one painful pivot saved a fintech SaaS pre-Series A.

Bootstrapped

Pixfold

Kenji Watanabe

An indie design tool earning $40k/mo from a single feature.

Amani Cole

Launching a creator-economy SaaS with a 12k email waitlist.

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From Side Project to $10M ARR: A Bootstrapped Founder Story

How a solo developer turned a weekend tool into a profitable SaaS company without taking a single dollar of VC money.

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Inside the AI Agent Startup That Just Joined YC W26

We sat down with the two-person team building autonomous agents for sales teams — and graduating YC in the process.

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