TWITS #69

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Jaisal Rathee
June 24, 2025

Yooo, it’s Jaisal. Welcome back to This Week in Tiny Startups #69.

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— Jaisal (@ratheejaisal)

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1. Capgo — Makes $8.8k MRR

2. Picture It — Makes $3k MRR

3. OG Tool — Makes $14k MRR

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We’ve got 15 kick-ass founders launching their projects on Tiny Startups. And this week’s curation is top notch in my humble opinion.

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ScrapingBee has been acquired

ScrapingBee is a web scraping API that handles headless browsers, rotates proxies for you, and offers AI-powered data extraction.

Pierre and Kevin launched ScrapingBee back in 2019 and have since then grown it to multiple millions $ in ARR in 6 years with over 2,500 customers around the world. Super impressive stuff.

Michael got a cease and desist from DocuSign

Michael runs Inkless, a free e-sign tool and Docusign alternative. He tweeted about how Docusign sent him a cease and desist and the post went absolutely viral, getting him over 18k likes and millions of impressions. This might be one of the best “free” marketing hacks and I bet it got him a ton of new users.

Alex crossed $3k MRR for Picture It

Alex just crossed $3k MRR for Picture It, a super-niche Shopify app that allows the user to add live previews and AR for art stores. Alex acquired the app back in 2023 and although he doesn’t share how much he paid for it, he bought it when it was doing around ~$1k MRR. It’s safe to assume a 2-5x ARR acquisition multiple.

Solo-founder got acquired for $80M

Maor Shlomo built and bootstrapped Base44, a Lovable alternative that lets you “build any software in minutes with AI”, successfully grew it to 250k users, and then sold it 6 months later for $80M (acquired by Wix).

Looks like the company was fully bootstrapped and employed just 6 people at the time of the acquisition. A dream exit scenario for many of us :)

$75M ARR in 7 months

Lovable just reached $75M ARR in just 7 months since launching. That’s like adding over $10M ARR every month. Insane growth. Although I think it’s now safe to say that Lovable is no longer a “tiny startup”.

Maddie crossed $14k MRR

Maddie just crossed $14k MRR for OGtool (shared above), an automated Reddit engagement tool and AI reply bot that tracks brand mentions & keywords, and automatically generates an on-brand AI response.

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