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Hewitt Tomlin, TeamBuildr

How a Vertical SaaS Hit $10M ARR With Flat Pricing

Hewitt Tomlin and his co-founder James started TeamBuildr as a social app for college athletes. A single conversation with a campus strength coach changed everything. The coach didn't want a social experience for his players. He wanted better tools for his actual job - building and distributing training programs. That pivot turned TeamBuildr into a vertical SaaS company built around one job function: strength and conditioning. Hewitt worked a full-time job for the first three years while moonlighting on TeamBuildr, growing revenue from $20K to $100K. When he went full-time, revenue jumped from $100K to $500K and then to $1M. Today TeamBuildr is a $10M ARR business with 45 employees. They've never raised funding and still use the same operating agreement from 2012. About half their customers are high schools, and they deliberately charge pro teams the same price as everyone else. Hewitt's reasoning is pragmatic. As a bootstrapped company, they couldn't afford to build different products for different verticals. By keeping pricing flat, they got NFL and college logos as social proof that drove volume in the high school market - the segment that actually moves the needle for growth. On AI, Hewitt is taking the opposite approach from his main competitor Volt, which is building AI-generated workouts to replace coaches. Hewitt believes AI should enhance the coaching profession, not replace it. He's focused on using AI internally to help his team work better and building AI features only when coaches actually ask for them - which they haven't yet. In this conversation, Hewitt shares how he built relationships with early customers instead of just handing out logins, why he thinks founders who plateau at $500K have a product-market fit problem, and how building for a job function instead of a vertical unlocked every segment from high schools to pro sports.

Sarah Ahmad, Stable

How to Validate a SaaS Idea With Zero Code

Sarah Ahmad and her co-founder Colin met freshman year of college and moved to San Francisco to work as engineers. They quit their jobs to build Mistro, a platform providing benefits for remote teams internationally. They got into Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, raised a pre-seed round, and had paying customers. Then COVID hit. You'd think a remote work tool would thrive when the entire world went remote. Instead, it was silent. They couldn't even give the product away for free. COVID had pressure-tested their product-market fit and exposed the truth - nobody needed what they were building. Sarah went back to basics. She ran discovery conversations with hundreds of operations managers and founders. One problem kept surfacing: companies without physical offices didn't know what to do about their business address and physical mail. The incumbents in the space had been around since the 2000s with clunky software. Nobody was raving about them. Instead of making the same mistake again - building a full product before validating demand - Sarah took a completely different approach to SaaS product validation. She posted a simple landing page in the YC community. The response was immediate. Dozens of founders emailed saying they needed it tomorrow. The first version of Stable was embarrassingly manual. A mail partner in San Francisco, Google Drive for document storage, Zoom for onboarding, and a Stripe link for payment. Sarah was manually emailing customers when mail arrived. They ran it this way for the first 100 customers before writing any code. Today, Stable is the leading AI-powered virtual mailbox for businesses with over 10,000 customers, 8-figure ARR, and a team of 50-60 people. They operate in 20+ locations across the US with processing centers in the Bay Area, New York, and Dallas. Their customers range from solopreneurs to enterprises like DoorDash, Realty Income, and GitLab. In this conversation, Sarah shares how the SEO playbook that built the business stopped working when AI overviews took over Google search results, why physical operations are her moat against AI disruption, and the moment she had to shift from product building to company building.

Zhong Xu, Deliverect

Why SaaS Distribution Matters More Than Your Product

Zhong Xu is the co-founder and CEO of Deliverect, an operating system for restaurants that connects digital sales channels like Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Grubhub into one place. Zhong's father immigrated from China to Belgium with nothing. He washed dishes in a Chinese restaurant, saved enough to open his own, and taught himself C++ from a book so he could build his own point-of-sale system. He pushed Zhong into the business early. By 14, Zhong was helping run the restaurant. By 16, he was building websites for Chinese restaurants across Belgium. By 18, he'd built over 1,000 of them. He went on to study software engineering and built one of the first iPad POS systems. He coded the whole thing himself over nine months while working full-time with a three-and-a-half-hour daily commute. In 2014, that company merged with Lightspeed. Five years later, Lightspeed IPO'd. But Zhong wasn't done building. He kept hearing the same thing from restaurant owners. Delivery platforms were taking over. Orders were pouring in from five or six different apps, and nobody had a way to manage it all. So in 2017, he left and started Deliverect. This time, he didn't spend nine months coding before talking to customers. He went out and signed up 50 to 100 restaurants first. Behind the scenes, his team was processing orders manually. It looked automated. It wasn't. But it proved the demand was real before they wrote a single line of code. Then he figured out the SaaS distribution channel that would change everything. Instead of signing restaurants one by one, he partnered with POS companies. Ten partners each bringing in 100 restaurants a month beat doing it alone. When COVID hit and restaurants scrambled to go digital, Deliverect was exactly what they needed. They opened 10 new offices in a single quarter to get ahead of local incumbents. Today, Deliverect serves over 80,000 restaurants across 50 countries with 450 employees. They've processed over $25 billion in orders and are approaching $100 million in ARR. And now Zhong is racing to build an AI intelligence layer for restaurants before the whole industry gets commoditized. Because as he puts it, infrastructure alone is forgettable - the value is in the SaaS distribution channel that controls the intelligence.

Joel Griffith, Browserless

$200 First Customer to $4M ARR Bootstrapped SaaS

Joel Griffith is a jazz trumpet player who taught himself to code. Before building his bootstrapped SaaS, he went through five or six failed B2C business ideas. Then he had a realization - the problems he understood best were the ones he dealt with every day as an engineer. The idea came from a side project. He was building a wishlist app and needed to pull product data from retail websites. That meant running a browser in the background to load pages and extract content. It was a nightmare. The browser would crash, run out of memory, and nothing worked reliably. He went to GitHub and sorted issues by most commented. They were all engineers struggling with the same thing. So he pivoted. Instead of building the wishlist app, he'd build the infrastructure to make browsers work reliably for developers. His first customer paid $200 a month. Total infrastructure cost was $50. He was profitable from day one. But growth was painfully slow. He ended his first year at about $1,000 in MRR. It took three years of working nights and weekends, writing blog posts, answering questions on forums, and building in public before he hit $500K in ARR. Even then, he waited an extra six months because COVID hit and he wanted a safety net before going full-time. He ran the business solo, getting to $60K in MRR as a one-person operation. But he eventually hit a wall - he didn't know how to hire, sell, or build a team. So he partnered with a small firm called Polychrome to handle the operational side of the business. Then AI changed everything. Joel had spent years building infrastructure for web scraping and testing. Now AI agents needed browsers to navigate websites, fill out forms, and interact with systems that don't have APIs. A whole new category of demand showed up almost overnight. Today, Browserless is approaching $4 million in ARR with a team of under 10 people. Joel has never raised a dollar. His bootstrapped SaaS survived Google Cloud and a $60M-funded competitor entering his space - his growth didn't even flinch because eight years of content and community had built something no amount of funding could replicate overnight.

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I've spent the last decade having the same conversation with nearly 500 SaaS founders: what actually worked?

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