Built With Success Story
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A discussion about Built With, a successful one-person company that analyzes website technology stacks.
Built With is a website where you can enter any URL to see what plugins and technologies that site uses. The founder, who is just one person in Australia, has built this into a multi-million dollar business.
The company makes money through subscription plans ranging from $3,000 to $10,000 per year. They crawl websites and collect data about what features and plugins sites are using. Customers can then access this data to find contact information of people using specific plugins or technologies, allowing them to target and advertise to potential customers.
According to Sam Parr, Built With is "maybe one of the most impressive" solo-founded companies, reportedly doing around $14 million in revenue when he discovered it. The entire operation is run essentially by just one person based in Australia.
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.