Hi Andi fam, hope you're doing well. 🙂
Fifth straight month of revenue growth since the reset: API revenue up 67% to $152, active API users to 100, and the index jumped 2.2B pages to 18.2B — our biggest single-month gain. Total cash burn for last 12 months: $51K. Revenue still short of target. Moving fast on product: 141 updates across 15 repos.
May goals: PLG/devrel campaigns ✅ | $400 revenue ❌ ($152) | Bookface launch ❌ (drafted, A/B test set, deferred) | Enterprise ⏳ (advancing)
Metrics
API Revenue: $152 (+67% MoM from $91)
API Queries: 10,101 (+57% MoM from 6,412)
Active API Users: 100 (+56% from 64), 132 registered, 39 new in May
Index: 18.2B pages (+14% from 16B)
MAU: 100K (-21% — consumer deprioritized for API)
Queries | Revenue | |
|---|---|---|
Jan | 0 | $0 |
Feb | 63 | $1 |
Mar | 3,637 | $54 |
Apr | 6,412 | $91 |
May | 10,101 | $152 |
Cash: $0
Credits: $730K cloud compute (new credits from AWS and DigitalOcean)
Burn: $5,236/mo
Runway: 0 months cash; 138 months with credits
Cockroach mode, last 12 months: 12-mo cash spend to May: $51K. Prior year same period $610K. $1.52M year before that (97% drop).
Asks
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Intros to AI agent startups frustrated with Perplexity/Brave/Parallel API accuracy.
Highlights
Index at 18.2B pages, new petabyte-scale, cross-cloud indexing cluster deploying now. New, 47% faster crawler engine with smarter pre-ranking.
54 API updates shipped, 141 releases over 15 repos: improved ranking engine, sub-10ms classification inference with new fine-tuned models, AI-synthesized API connections for 20K+ key sources, improved research-generation API.
PLG launches: YC Advisor reviewed 720 startups in May, 78 alumni reviews, 18 recommended to YC. Building relationships with new AI startups (yc-advisor.andiai.com). Socials: 155K+ views across PLG posts, 2k likes; top post hit 50K views.
Partnerships: Firecrawl second round of testing; Bright Ventures, DigitalOcean co-marketing; Skyscanner, Kayak conversations; Uber internal progress - "a real bi-directional opportunity worth chasing". AWS assessing large-scale credits grant.
Lowlights
No cash. We keep things running by juggling cloud credits.
$400 revenue target missed.
Bookface launch deferred for new pricing and A/B testing (waitlist vs. open).
Token-constrained, losing time to optimization instead of focusing on growth.
Shoutouts
YC: Garry for social post support, Jared for launch-strategy help
Sean Zhou from Acacia: Ongoing help with API qualitative analysis
DigitalOcean: co-marketing support and additional credits
Celesta Hoover and David White: emergency funding
Ongoing patience from WSGR, Fondo, Pulley, Brex, AWS, Porter
Goals for June
$400 revenue
Ship new API Console with A/B split testing cohorts, new pricing
New improved CLI and MCP for AI-agent onboarding
Launch YC deal on Bookface
AI search space is hot: Exa just raised $250M at $2.2B, Parallel $100M at $2B, TinyFish ($47m Series A) pivoted into search. Google replaced traditional search with AI Mode (ads and all) at I/O. Lean 2-person team, low cash burn, shipping fast, better accuracy, growing 60%+ MoM.
Questions, thoughts?
Phone/WhatsApp: +1 (720) 787-8519
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Warmly,
Angela
