Hi Andi fam, hope you’re doing well. 🙂
We ended the API pilot, implemented feedback, reset revenue to ~$0. Spent Q1 building self-service signup/billing, kicked off product-led growth (PLG) strategy. 596 commits across 12 repos and 8 products, CEO writing production code. The pilot proved demand, but direct sales couldn't scale a developer API business. First organic Stripe payments came in March.
December goals: Index 15B+ ✅ | Onboard waitlist: in progress (console built) | Pricing from feedback: partial (3-tier defined, tuning) | $10K MRR: missed (deliberate reset) | Bookface: missed, planned for P26 batch in April
Metrics
Revenue: $54 in March ($10 Stripe topup + $44 API usage), up from $1 in Feb. Q1 total: ~$55
API queries: 3,637 in March (57x MoM from 63 in Feb)
Developer accounts: 14 active (up from 6 manual pilots in Dec)
Index: 15.7B+ pages (up from 12B+)
MAU: 153K (flat +0.003% MoM)
Cash: $131 Brex — zero months cash runway at $6,343/mo burn
Credits: $927K (Cloud Compute) — 12+ months runway with credits
Queries | Revenue | |
|---|---|---|
Jan | 0 | $0 |
Feb | 63 | $1 |
Mar | 3,637 | $54 |
Asks
Intros to developers and startups building AI agents that need search APIs
Try signing up at https://console.andiai.com/waitlist and I'll let you in. Feedback on developer experience welcome.
Invite friends to try it: Tell them to mention your name for early access.
Highlights
Self-service API Console launched at https://console.andiai.com with Stripe billing and 3-tier pricing (Developer / Team / Enterprise)
First organic Stripe payments: a $10 credit topup and a $49/mo subscriber, with early margins of ~$25-30 per subscription. First pilot customer converting to enterprise plans
Shipped 8 products in Q1: console, API docs (https://docs.andiai.com), rebuilt https://andiai.com, airun (https://airun.me, 135 GitHub stars), YC Advisor (https://yc-advisor.andiai.com), ShipIt (https://github.com/andisearch/shipit), AI writing tools (150+ Bookface downloads), andi-promote (59 posts, 10 campaigns, 90K+ views)
PCMag Best Free AI Search Engine, third consecutive year. Tavily acquired for $275M — agentic search is a real market
Lowlights
MAU down 40% from Dec — consumer deprioritized for API build
Cash: $131 Brex, running on credits
53 waitlist users still to be onboarded. 6 pilot users not yet activated on new console.
Shoutouts
YC for constant support and social media amplification. David White and Celesta Hoover for emergency funding that kept us alive. WSGR, Fondo (David Phillips), Pulley for continued patience
PostHog ($50K/yr credits + bill forgiven), Cursor ($84K), DigitalOcean ($75K), Massive ($10K), AWS and GCP YC teams. Tim Trumper, Peter Bryant, Nick Chan, and Caleb Peffer (Firecrawl) for strategy advice and testing
Goals for April
Activate waitlist onto self-service console
$1K MRR from self-service API
Launch API on YC Bookface with P26 batch deal
Finalize pricing + close first enterprise customer
Built everything running on vapor.
Questions, thoughts?
Phone/WhatsApp: +1 (720) 787-8519
Book a time: calendly.com/angela-andi/andi-api
Warmly,
Angela
