SocialBee
👤 Ovi Negrean (CEO) & Vlad Hosu (CTO) (Ovi manually ran customers' feeds first, so he built only what he'd already sold — then grew it in public on Product Hunt.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
Ovi ran clients' feeds by hand on spreadsheets to prove demand, then built the bootstrapped SaaS in the background.
Will it work? · our read
Sold before built. The concierge MVP is the lesson: he found paying customers with spreadsheets and Zapier before writing real code, then bootstrapped it to a 2024 acquisition.
01How the money moves
A solo, coach or agency must post daily across networks but hates the grind
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They file posts into recycling categories; the library auto-fills the calendar
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They pay $29-$449/mo to keep the evergreen queue posting
02The numbers
$1M+
ARR (2023)
founder
$0
outside funding
Latka
Aug 2024
acquired · WebPros
press
Bootstrapped to $1M+ ARR, then acquired by WebPros in Aug 2024 (terms undisclosed). Mixergy / Latka
$1M+ ARR (2023, founder) · est. $5.5M (2025) · $0 raised · sold to WebPros 2024
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Mixergy — Ovi Negrean interview (concierge MVP, $1M+ ARR)Latka — SocialBee: $5.5M rev est., 50 staff, $0 raisedZF.ro — WebPros acquires SocialBee (Aug 2024)SocialBee — pricing ($29-$449/mo)
Revenue is first-party: Ovi Negrean stated $1M+ ARR (near 10x growth, $300k+ annual profit) in a 2023 Mixergy interview [STATED, verified]. Latka estimates $5.5M revenue for 2025 (EST aggregator — treat as directional, per our no-unsourced-numbers rule). WebPros acquired SocialBee in Aug 2024; terms undisclosed. Bootstrapped, $0 raised, confirmed by Latka and Romanian press. The concierge/Wizard-of-Oz origin is documented by the founder himself — real drama, not fabricated. The $29-$449/mo pricing is from the live pricing page. We never score you.