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👤 Rachit Khator (Ran deal flow at a Fortune 500 VC arm, so he lived the spreadsheet pain. Surat wages let him staff a team on savings alone.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
He quit a US corporate VC job, moved to Surat, and spent two years building before a single customer paid.
Will it work? · our read
Priced to undercut. Freemium horizontal tools convert badly, and 75,000 companies with no public revenue could still mean a small business. Profitable at 34 people, though.
01How the money moves
Free plan, hit the row limit
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API columns keep the data live
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Team pays $4.20-12.50/user/mo
02The numbers
75,000 companiesStatedrevenue never disclosed
2025-02
Company-stated, not audited. The free and paid split is not broken out. Practical Founders #131
Profitable at 34 staff; no revenue figure ever published.
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Stackby - About: "over 75,000 companies of all shapes and sizes in 150+ countries", started "in 2018", "All bootstrapped."Practical Founders #131 (13 Feb 2025): "75,000 free and paid business customers", "34 employees live in Surat, India", "profitable and growing at 15% per month".Indie Hackers interview (9 Dec 2020): AppSumo launch Jan 2020, "less than 1,000 users in Dec 2019" to "over 25K users by September 2020", pricing moved "from lifetime to limited-time annual and recurring".Stackby pricing: Economy $4.2, Business $8.3, Pro $12.5 per user/month billed annually.Airtable pricing ($20 and $45 per seat) and Baserow pricing ($10 and $18 per user/month yearly).
Stackby has never published a revenue figure, so the headline is its own customer count. stackby.com/about states "over 75,000 companies ... in 150+ countries"; Practical Founders #131 (Feb 2025) independently reports 75,000 free and paid business customers, 34 employees, profitable, growing 15% per month. Both are company-stated and unaudited, and the free/paid split is not broken out, so 75,000 is NOT 75,000 payers. The only revenue signal we found is the founder's Dec 2020 Indie Hackers remark that a $1M annual run rate was a goal and they were "almost halfway there" - vague and five years stale, so we did not headline it and we declined to manufacture a sharp third-party estimate. Founding year 2018 comes from the founder's own about-page account; the podcast's "grown in 4 years" refers to time since public launch, not incorporation. Every figure here was confirmed by fetching raw HTML and string-matching it, not from search snippets; Airtable and Baserow prices were read from their own pricing pages the same way. Rival bar weights are our read of mindshare, not measured data. No drama to report: this was execution, patience and a low cost base. We never score you.