Finding product-market fit in a fast-paced and competitive market - Indie Hackers
Velvet has already logged over 60 million requests and is approaching six-figures in ARR. Finding product-market fit in such a fast-paced market is a challenge, but the team keeps momentum by shipping early and often. Here's Emma on how they're doing it. 👇 Second-time founder Building based on customer feedback Tech stack Product-market fit is hard Experiment with pricing The six most useful growth tactics Maintain momentum The five major decisions of a founder Resources I was an MBA student and an entrepreneur in residence at Chicago Ventures. I gave myself two years of personal runway to validate ideas, trial co-founder relationships, and work in venture capital. My last startup was a developer marketplace called Moonlight, which I grew to $10k MRR with $55k monthly GMV. We sold the company to a Google-backed startup called PullRequest in 2020. Now, I'm working on Velvet. Velvet is an AI gateway to run model analytics, evaluations, and continuous monitoring. We’re just at the beginn
Finding product-market fit in a fast-paced and competitive market - Indie Hackers Company Velvet Founder Emma Lawler Revenue <$10K a month Emma Lawler is a second-time founder building an AI platform called Velvet . Velvet has already logged over 60 million requests and is approaching six-figures in ARR. Finding product-market fit in such a fast-paced market is a challenge, but the team keeps momentum by shipping early and often. Here's Emma on how they're doing it. 👇 Second-time founder I was an MBA student and an entrepreneur in residence at Chicago Ventures. I gave myself two years of pers
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