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Then $20M in 60 days og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 7 years of failure. One tweet. Then $20M in 60 days **[EO](https://daily.dev/sources/entreprenueropp)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The founder of Bolt shares how the company nearly shut down after 7 years of struggling to monetize its core technology. Bolt, an AI-powered tool that generates apps and websites from plain text descriptions, was launched with just a single tweet — no blog post, no press release. The tweet went viral, bringing in 60,000 new users on day one. Within the first two months, Bolt grew from $0 to $20 million in ARR, a growth rate that surprised even experienced investors. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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