[vtange]

It's a different framing but this frame hides a lot of crucial information like the fact this venture used venture capital (and probably VC connections too) and hired many employees. You can't really compare this to the solo-garage-weekend-project.

[AlphaWeaver]

>A few months later, I left Pinterest to work full-time on Gumroad and raised $8MM from KPCB, Max Levchin, and other investors.

[fouc]

Yet he jettisoned all that and is back to running it as an indie hacker, so it counts ;)