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Cal AI

health & fitness

How a calorie tracking app built by a 17-year-old reached #1 on the App Store through TikTok distribution

Cal AI
Success

Airbnb

travel & hospitality

How Airbnb validated the most counterintuitive idea in hospitality with a hand-coded website and an air mattress

Airbnb
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Revolut

fintech

How Revolut launched with one feature, dominated a market, and then expanded — not the other way around

Revolut
MixedFull

Lime

mobility

How Lime captured city contracts and market share before competitors by moving faster and asking for forgiveness

Lime
SuccessFull

Cooltra

mobility

How Barcelona's scooter sharing company built technology that matched real operational complexity

Cooltra
SuccessFull

AppBlock

productivity

How a simple app blocker became a profitable bootstrapped business by solving one problem very well

AppBlock
SuccessFull

Hevy

health & fitness

Hevy hit #1 in the App Store Health category by doing less than every competitor — and making the social layer feel earned, not forced

Hevy
SuccessFull

Strava

health & fitness

Strava grew to 120M users by refusing to expand beyond serious athletes for the first five years — the discipline of not scaling your audience

Strava

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