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Polsia hit a $25M run rate with 1 founder 🤯

One founder, $0 to ~$25M run rate, AND: the $1,000 AI audit that became $15K a month

One founder, $0 to ~$25M run rate, AND: the $1,000 AI audit that became $15K a month
$0 to $25M run rate with 1 founder: Polsia’s growth curve, devs.dev daily issue #1

Issue #1 · Saturday, October 24, 2026

☕ THE COLD OPEN

One founder says his AI company went from $0 to a $20M run rate in 28 weeks, and it’s closing in on $25M. Three college kids turned a $1,000 AI audit into $15K a month. And the guy who sold the internet a startup kit watched it drop 98%.

Launching got cheap. Picking what to sell did not.

5 minutes. Money first. Let’s go.

👀 ALSO MAKING MONEY

🔦 $150–$400 an hour: erasing rust off equipment with a handheld laser (creator claim)

🤖 $1B a year: Cognition’s revenue run rate for Devin, its AI coder (company-reported). Robinhood just put in about $10M.

🧪 $215M on day one: a former OpenAI exec launched Warp Sciences, robot chemistry labs, at an $865M valuation

 

💰 THE MONEY DROP

Polsia: one founder, a ~$25M run rate

Polsia sells “AI that runs your company while you sleep”: agents that build, market and run a small online business for you.

Founder Ben Cera’s pricing is simple. He added up what one customer costs him (about $50) and charged $49 a month plus a 20% cut.

The numbers (founder claims, per his Oct 19 post):

  • 🚀 $0 → $1M run rate in 12 weeks
  • ⚡ $1M → $10M in 10 weeks, then $10M → $20M in 6

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