HeyShip: Product, team and how it was built

Solo founder · 25 months after launch, revenue growing

Tradespeople already use WhatsApp all day on the job site, and many write quotes by hand or in a spreadsheet. Tutti puts the office work into that chat, so the customer has nothing new to install or learn. It sends messages through Meta's official WhatsApp Business Platform, which lets one founder run the service without a phone app as the main product.

Started small, grew after funding · 38 months after launch, revenue growing

It sold to large companies from the first months, together with a network of human mentors, and an investor reported that it made €30,000 a month within a few months of launch. The founders then turned the mentoring business into a platform built on skills data, raised a €5.8M Series A in 2025, and the managing director of Techstars Torino reported €3.6M in annual recurring revenue in February 2026.

Started small, grew after funding · 9 months after launch

Large companies run many HR systems that do not share data, so a single case such as a new hire passes through several of them by hand. Ahron does not replace those systems; it connects to them, measures where cases wait, and places agents there. The founders had sold an earlier HR software company, and the product is built on Celonis, a Munich process-mining company whose partnership, the founder says, brings in requests from around the world.

Started small, grew after funding · 12 months after launch

The founders came from a company that did outsourced purchasing for other firms, so they knew which purchasing tasks were still done by hand in email and spreadsheets. Soource turned those tasks into agent workflows for large companies. One article from the South Summit Madrid 2026 conference reported 800K in annual recurring revenue and 58 enterprise customers, without a currency and without saying who gave the figure.

Started small, grew after funding · 36 months after launch, revenue growing

French renovation quotes depend on subsidy and tax rules that change every few months, and the small firm that installs the equipment bears the risk of a wrong file. Argile puts those rules and the building calculation methods into the software, so a salesperson can give a detailed quote within an hour of a visit instead of weeks later.

Team of 2 to 10 · 10 months after launch, revenue growing

Food distributors still take many orders by email, text message and phone and type them into old ERP systems by hand. The two founders worked inside a Boston seafood distributor for months to map that work before they built the product. Then they sold it themselves to large distributors: an a16z speedrun newsletter of January 2026 says one enterprise deal with a publicly traded distributor took their booked revenue past US$500,000.

Team of 2 to 10 · 32 months after launch, revenue falling

It sold one promise that a customer can measure: a first reply to every new lead within 10 seconds, to businesses that already pay for many leads through Meta ads. A demo on the website brought sales calls through organic search before the product was built. Revenue then fell from US$9,000 to US$12,000 a month in late 2025 to under US$2,000 in September 2026, in the same months in which the founder launched other products.

Team of 2 to 10 · 45 months after launch, revenue falling

Said US$19K a monthRecords US$9.6K in JulyDid not hold

It appeared in January 2023 inside Google Slides, a program where people already work, when writing slides from one sentence was new, and users showed it to each other without paid advertising. A blog about presentation topics then brought about 80% of new users from Google search, by the founder's account. Both channels weakened: search traffic fell, and Google added the same function to Slides. The verified total is real, and so is the fall: monthly revenue fell by half between February and July 2026.

Solo founder · 11 months after launch, revenue flat

The founder had written a marketing blog for ten years, so his own readers bought on the first day. He built the first version in 8 weeks with the no-code tool Bubble, because he had no money for developers. He sold one thing that the model makers do not sell: all of their models in one subscription.

Team of 2 to 10 · 29 months after launch, revenue growing

The founders sold the idea before they built it, and built it with a no-code tool so that one person could change it every day. Then they cut the product down to the one use that brought 70% of the revenue. They placed it inside the help desks that customers already pay for, and priced it below the AI agents that the help-desk vendors sell themselves.