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One Year of Quizard 🧙‍♂️ | LinkedIn

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One year ago today, my co-founders and I launched an app out of our dorm room to make learning easier for students. Today, we have helped over 1.3M+ students receive support on 35M+ questions, generated $1M+ in ARR, and raised over $800k+ in funding. Here is our story: On January 28th, we launched Quizard. We posted our first 3 TikToks, which hit 1M+ views in 2 days. We went from 100 users to 10k users and hit #30 in the app store education charts overnight. Here is a fun Bereal (RIP) to commemorate the moment. Not all growth is good. We grew too fast. The app was riddled with bugs leading to shit retention. We spent the next several weeks with minimal sleep fixing everything. Our users were not concentrated in one place or demographic, leading to many contradicting signals about future direction. Significant user growth created the illusion of success, but in reality, we had just put a fire hose into a leaky bucket, and we had to move as quickly as possible to patch those holes. To ad

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