Typebot
👤 Baptiste Arnaud (French engineer obsessed over editor UX; open-sourced Typebot in 2022 for transparency and craft, per his own blog.)🌐 sitebaptistearno.com𝕏LinkedIn
He open-sourced the entire SaaS in 2022 and let developers distribute it worldwide, for free.
Will it work? · our read
Open-source won. A solo builder beat a crowded category on distribution, not features: he gave away the code and let GitHub plus a Brazil community market it. Fragile if AI commoditizes bots.
01How the money moves
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02The numbers
$36.5KStatedMRR, Q3 2024 (founder)
2024-Q3
Founder's Q3 2024 quarterly recap. founder X recap
$36.5K MRR (Q3 2024), 647 paying clients, solo and profitable.
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🌐 siteFounder X: Typebot Q3 2024 recap ($36.5K MRR, 647 clients, 4.7M chats)Starter Story: How Baptiste bootstrapped TypebotGitHub: baptisteArno/typebot.io (10.1k stars, FSL license)Product Hunt: Typebot launch (Sept 2020)Typebot pricing (Free / $39 Starter / $89 Pro)
Revenue is first-party: Baptiste's Q3 2024 recap on X states $36,550 MRR, 647 clients, 4.7M chats/month (Starter Story cites about $46.5K MRR by Nov 2024). Pricing and 10.1k GitHub stars verified on the site and repo. Rival prices are approximate list entry tiers. The 88% Brazil growth spike is documented in his Starter Story interview; the causal read on open-source as the growth engine is [our read] — his own blog cites transparency and OSS convention, not a Product Hunt flop, as the reason he open-sourced in 2022. We never score you.