EverBee
👤 Cody McGuffie (Ran his own Etsy and e-com brands, hated guessing what sells — built the data x-ray he wanted, sold it to 900K sellers.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
Etsy hides real sales. EverBee estimates them from public signals and shows the number right on the listing — free.
Will it work? · our read
Sells the pickaxe. A free extension that lives on Etsy, reveals the one hidden number, and rode 900K installs to $5M ARR — all resting on Etsy's goodwill and rough estimates.
01How the money moves
Free extension shows estimated sales on any Etsy listing
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Paywall the money numbers + add email marketing
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$29.99-99/mo month-to-month ($19.99-69/mo billed annually) across 900K sellers
02The numbers
$5MStatedARR (founder-stated)
2024-04
the sentence on the page
From 0 to 5 million ARR with Bootstrapping Alexej talks with Cody McGuffie about scaling Everbee to $5M ARR via bootstrapping, market insights, and entrepreneurial advice. By NUOPTIMA · Updated April…
ARR is founder-stated on a podcast, not audited; an older third-party estimate puts revenue nearer $3M. Nuoptima podcast
0 to about $5M ARR in roughly 2 years, no funding.
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Nuoptima podcast — Cody McGuffie: 0 to $5M ARR, bootstrappedEverBee — 900,000+ creators (company site)EverBee pricing — Free / $19.99 / $69 tiersRevenueGeeks — estimate-accuracy critique (about 80%)Cody McGuffie — Founder and CEO, LinkedIn
Revenue ($5M ARR, bootstrapped, no funding) is founder-stated on the Nuoptima podcast — first-party but self-reported and unaudited; an older third-party estimate (prospeo) puts revenue near $3.08M, so treat $5M as a founder claim, not a confirmed figure (not independently confirmed). The 900K-user count is EverBee's own marketing. The sales numbers the product sells are ESTIMATES (about 80% accurate by EverBee's own claim), not real Etsy data. Founding year (about 2021) is inferred from the "2 years to $5M" timeline, not confirmed. No fabricated drama: this won on distribution, a free tier, and picking a hot niche. The platform-dependency risk is structural but not yet realized. We never score you.