Hi Andi fam, hope you're doing well. 🙂
Developers and their AI agents are finding the API by themselves. Signups growing 20%+ WoW, with no launches, promotion, or paid acquisition. Rebuilt the self-serve funnel and Installers to improve conversion. Built new specialist vertical indexes for legal, finance, crypto, and a new Agent Index: a Trantora index built for agent and developer content.
July goals: AI-first phase ✅ | Bookface ❌ | $400 revenue ❌ ($284)
Metrics
Active API Accounts: 658 (+227%)
Index (Trantora): 28B+ pages
MAU: 43K (consumer paused to focus on API and save costs)
Queries | Revenue | |
|---|---|---|
Jan | 0 | $0 |
Feb | 63 | $1 |
Mar | 3,637 | $54 |
Apr | 6,412 | $91 |
May | 10,101 | $152 |
Jun | 6,645 | $109 |
Jul | 7,965 | $339 |
Aug | 8,148 | $284 |
Cash: $1.31
Credits: $779K - $50k credits from xAI
Burn: ~$2,402/mo
Runway: 0 months cash; ~300 months on credits
Asks
Intros to teams running AI agents in legal or finance research
Highlights
Angela recovered and back on deck.
Market pull + self-discovery. 461 signups in 30 days, best week 115. 882 distinct IPs and 13.6K agent requests hit the MCP endpoint without a key pre-launch.
Specialist vertical indexes shipping. Legal, finance, crypto, and the Agent Index: a Trantora index of agent-first content and resources.
Search quality improvements. Added 10 new sources feed types including developer docs, code and MCP registries. Rebuilt ranking for entities, dates and query fidelity, specialist-intents classifier, new fast AI reranking for low-cost/free modes.
384 commits / 161 releases / 34 repos in 30 days.
Lowlights
Cash at ~$0 is a constant battle.
Too slow talking to users.
Too slow with promotion/launches.
Shoutouts
David White and Celesta Hoover — food and shelter through the toughest stretch. Tim Trumper for ideas on legal/specialist verticals.
Porter, WSGR, Fondo, Stable — patience with payments.
Microsoft Startups and DigitalOcean - Help with quota and new service deployments. xAI/Cursor for help/support and new API credits grant.
Goals for September
Start Launches
Talk to more users
Publish public AI search benchmarks
Warmly,
Angela + Jed
