Skimmer
👤 Ron Hash (Software engineer Ron Hash rode along with a working pool pro before coding, so Skimmer fit the trade, not the reverse.)🌐 site
Pool routes ran on paper and whiteboards. Skimmer put the whole trade on a phone - and became its default tool.
Will it work? · our read
Own the niche. A genuinely dull trade, run on paper, modernized by insiders who rode along first. That focus built a 30,000-pro lead and drew a $74M growth round. The limit is the trade itself.
01How the money moves
Pool pro runs routes on paper and whiteboards
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Adopts Skimmer: routes, chemistry, photos, auto-invoicing on mobile
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Pays $49-98/mo base plus per-pool; Skimmer bills recurring
02The numbers
$74M raised '24StatedARR private (est $5.7M)
2024-10
ARR is private; Latka's about $5.7M is an unverified estimate (it even lists funding as $0, which is wrong). about-us
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Skimmer - About us (founding story, 30K pros, 900K pools, 1M+ stops)Skimmer blog - $74M raise from Mainsail Partners (Oct 2024)Mainsail Partners - Skimmer growth investment announcementLatka - Skimmer revenue estimate (about $5.7M ARR, marked Estimated)The Pool Guy Podcast - interview with founder Ron Hash
Revenue is private, so I headline the officially disclosed $74M growth round (Skimmer's own blog + Mainsail Partners press, Oct 16 2024) rather than a shaky ARR. Skimmer is not bootstrapped, and was not before that round either: Mainsail's release says Unbundled Capital first invested in 2020 and that its two partners stay on the board. Whether the 2024 round is minority or control is stated on no public page. Latka lists about $5.7M ARR but flags it "Estimated" and also wrongly shows funding as $0 despite the $74M raise, so I treat it as unreliable EST context, not a verified figure (the Stated badge covers the raise, which is public; the ARR beside it is an estimate). Scale numbers - 30,000 pool pros, 900K+ pools, 1M+ route stops - are first-party from Skimmer's about page. Founding year 2017 per Skimmer's own site (Tracxn says 2014; I used the site's 2017 launch). Ron Hash is the technical founder; his co-founding pool pro is unnamed in sources, and Jack Nelson has been CEO since 2020, not a founder. No personal founder links are included because none were first-party confirmed (only the product site). The "dies" scenario and the counter are [our read], not documented drama - Skimmer largely won on execution, insider fit and timing. We never score you.