Restworld
👤 Luca Lotterio (A psychologist who waited tables across Europe to fund his degree — he had lived the exact staff churn Restworld now solves.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
Italy has countless family restaurants that can't keep staff. A former waiter turned that churn into a hiring platform.
Will it work? · our read
Lived the pain. Restaurants lose staff constantly and dislike generic job boards, so a vertical tool built for the trade can win a market too small and messy for the giants.
01How the money moves
Restaurant posts a role
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Restworld matches vetted hospitality staff
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Restaurant pays a subscription
02The numbers
$35K/moStatedMRR, self-reported
2023
Counts are company-stated in the 2023 interview. Starter Story
$35K/mo self-reported in a July 2023 Starter Story interview ('0 to half a million in 2023'). Starter Story's box now tracks about $90.8K/mo. Not audited.
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Revenue is founder-stated in a July 2023 Starter Story interview: $35K/mo, and '0 to half a million in 2023'. Starter Story's metric box now tracks about $90.8K/mo (about $1.08M/yr), treated as a later self-report, not audited — badge STATED, not FILED. Client and signup counts are company-stated on the same page. Restworld took a 2024 seed round, so it is not purely bootstrapped. No filings opened. We never score you.