We just published one of the most honest and practical founder interviews we've ever featured in Unicorns Journal.
It s the story of how Sergey Bakaev, co-founder of LovOn, raised $850K after hearing more than 100 rejections with no network and no previous fundraising experience.
A brutally honest, step-by-step breakdown of what pre-seed fundraising actually looks like behind the scenes the pressure, the tactics, the mistakes, and the breakthroughs.
Celebrate your startup wins with zero design effort 🎉
The FREE Animation Builder by Unicorns Club turns boring LinkedIn posts into fun, TikTok-style highlight videos — made for founders, makers, and community updates.
I've been [using the platform / following the club] for a little while now and I'm really impressed with [mention something specific you like, e.g., the quality of the community, the insights shared, the project focus]. It's clear a lot of thought has gone into it.
As I've been exploring, a few questions and ideas came to mind that I thought might be valuable for both the team and other users:
I ve been on this platform for almost three years without interruption, reviewing dozens of products every day. I try many of them, but only a few have become part of my daily routine, ones I can t imagine living without.
I will pin, for example, 3 of them:
@TabMagic - Bookmark & Tab Manager I no longer need 500 tabs open; I can save them to my dashboard and close my entire browser.
Tomorrow we launch the Summer Update of Unicorns Club on Product Hunt
We re rolling out new features to help early-stage founders earn visibility and match with investors based on growth, not just outreach.
Yesterday, some of our early users got a sneak peek and today we re celebrating the first founder to unlock our brand-new Sparks system! Meet Eyad Gomaa, one of the youngest founders on our platform just 17 years old! He s building SILX AI, tackling real-time synthetic data for AI models.
Thanks to Sparks earned for sharing real traction, SILX AI is now featured in our pitch deck and video galleries just in time for tomorrow s big traffic wave from Product Hunt.
Since our last launch, Unicorns Club introduced traction-based rankings, community awards, Unicorn Index and Sparks — a new way for startups to earn visibility through real growth. Join now to get featured, ranked, and discovered based on what really matters.
At Unicorns Club, we highlight early-stage startups that show real momentum not just ideas, but teams putting in the work, building, and growing.
This week s spotlight goes to Buzzabout an AI-powered insights tool helping marketing agencies decode audience sentiment and pain points through social media.
We ve started rolling out new features to better showcase founders like these:
We ve published 16 incredible founder stories in Unicorns Journal over the last few months and the next one could be yours. While Forbes and TechCrunch may not have noticed you yet, we re here to give you the spotlight you deserve.
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I still can t believe this is real. 6 people No venture capital A crazy idea we refused to give up on And now Product Hunt just put us in the same league as billion-dollar startups. This is surreal. A dream. That moment of HOLY SH*T, did we actually do this? Unicorns Club a tiny team of just six people, backed by a single angel investor, no VC money just won a Golden Kitty Award. And not just any award, but the one that placed us alongside OpenAI, Google, Figma, Mercury, Notion, and other giants. A year ago, this was just an idea. No big budgets, no seasoned startup team.
Just a handful of people who believed the startup world needed a better way to connect founders and investors. To everyone who voted, supported, signed up, and believed in Unicorns YOU are the reason we made it. Ask me anything!
