... announced a $8 Million raise in seed funding. @scobreit wrote in their blog announcement : This funding accelerates our roadmap: smarter multi-agent collaboration, enterprise-grade tooling for technical leaders, and a feature set that continues to accelerate the AI flywheel for development teams using Kilo. Kilo Code is crushing it this year: Two launches on @Product Hunt , ranked respectfully #5 Product of the Day and #1 Product of the Day, growing from 0 to 750,000+ downloads on @VS

... build mobile apps. Soon hitting 50 new signups daily. All these signups came with massive LLM costs. Starting with just ~$4K, we burned through 30% of our budget in the first week with only $260 MRR. Our well-funded competitors offered 5 free code gen requests daily (30/month), while we provided just 1 request/user lifetime. Talked to users, they wanted to explore platform for free but even with our minimal free tier, costs were eating up our savings. Traffic kept ... ... blogs. We approached VCs but got no replies. We pivoted to a paid-only model after burning 60% of our funds. Still getting ~50 daily signups from our @daily.dev blog, but users expected the same free plans as competitors

... content". And always keep it at arms length. You can promote things you build that are not directly connected to "illicit content". Like for instance. Create a substack brand for the Crypto agent. Or other forms of reach. Network flywheels comes in many shapes and forms, that are not always obvious, but they are findable if you look and think. One of my most performant flywheels

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