Wash-Dry-Fold POS
👤 Brian Henderson (Joined the family's Liberty Laundry in 2006, ran ops, then built the POS on no-code Bubble for his own 3 stores.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
A laundromat owner turned his in-house till system into software now running about 1,300 laundromats in all 50 states.
Will it work? · our read
Owner-built. A laundromat owner dogfooded his own POS for years, then sold it to peers. Bootstrapped past $1M ARR against a rival that raised $230M. Owner credibility is what rivals can't buy.
01How the money moves
Laundromat owner buys the POS + ops app
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Pays a monthly fee per store, plus card processing
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Fees recur across 1,300+ stores
02The numbers
$1M+ ARRStatedseven-figure ARR (founder)
2026
Founder-stated on the SourceForge podcast; the 20% share is confirmed in the company's own press release. Revenue is stated by the founder, not filed.
Software line only; the founders' 3 laundromats grossed $2.5M more in 2025.
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Startups For The Rest Of Us #844 — founder: "we finally passed the seven figure mark for our ARR" revenueSourceForge Podcast #135 — CEO Ian Gollahon: "it serves more than 1,300 stores... about 20% of the entire US laundromat POS market" statsWash-Dry-Fold POS names Ian Gollahon CEO (PR Newswire via Yahoo Finance) — confirms about 20% market share and Liberty Laundry's $2.5M 2025 gross statsCents Series C, $140M (2026) — the $230M-raised rivalBubble blog: how Henderson built the app — no-code origin
Revenue is STATED, not filed: on Startups For The Rest Of Us #844 co-founder Brian Henderson said WDF 'finally passed the seven figure mark for our ARR', so '$1M+ ARR' is his words, not audited, and no exact figure or period split was given. Operating stats (1,300+ systems in 50 states, about 20% of US laundromat POS, and about 6,000 US laundromats that have any POS at all) are stated by CEO Ian Gollahon on the SourceForge Podcast, episode 135; the 20% share is corroborated in the company's own PR-Newswire release naming Gollahon CEO. washdryfoldpos.com/llm-info, the company's self-hosted stats page, returned a bot-detection captcha wall (sg-captcha) on every attempt and could not be read, so it is no longer cited. The $2.5M is the founders' 3 laundromats' 2025 gross, confirmed in the same PR-Newswire release — a SEPARATE business, not software revenue. Cents' $230M raised and 4,500+ locations come from its own Series C release; the podcast cited '$220M since 2021'. Rival prices are anchors/third-party reads, not first-party. verified:true for the ARR statement (first-party founder quote). We never score you.