[screye]

Genuine question, outside of bragging rights, what advantage does this kind of PR have ?

If you found a niche that no one else has turned into a race to the bottom yet, why would you want the world to know about it ? It's like Warren Buffet telling everyone what stocks he will be picking.

Maybe if the startup was yet to gain traction, this would help get the word out. But from the sounds of it, it is already generating a ton of revenue.

[58x14]

This doesn’t seem like a paid promotion piece, although it could be. I don’t see any direct connection between the author and the company/founder.

It’s an interesting read, and likely brings some marginally additional traffic to the site, so I don’t see any negative exposure here. Perhaps the founder is considering an exit?

[forte124]

Hi, I'm the OP. I have no connection with the founder actually. I just like to research success stories like this to help inform and inspire people

I also don't mean to bring harm to the founder. I'm sure he's created scrapers, historical data, and built loyalty that's difficult to replicate

If there's something about this story that I got wrong or if it wasn't as helpful as I intended, do please let me know though!

[kulikalov]

Because it's one thing to find a niche and another thing is to make money in it.

For instance, I make software that help Private Equity firms find deals. I can't use it myself, because it requires a completely different set of skills.

[bitxbitxbitcoin]

I think the only person who can answer that question is the founder. I would posit: if you had that much money what else can you buy besides bragging rights? This coverage wasn’t even bought as far as I can tell.

[prepend]

I would expect that if you had $14M revenue a year with no employees and no investors you would never hear a peep unless he wanted to hype for a sale.

Bragging rights are for chumps without millions in cash.

[soheil]

Early startup founders with products like Sentry looking to market to companies based on their tech stack would probably be their target customers.