From Project to Funded Startup: How Lorem Moved Fast with Glitch
The story of Lorem’s rise from a simple Glitch project to a fully launched app
“Startups need to move fast,” says Sam Wilcoxon, CEO of Lorem Technologies.
“We learned this the hard way after spending nine months writing production-grade, well-tested, highly-performant code and then throwing it all away when we pivoted the product.”
Wilcoxon was determined to not make the same mistake twice, so he and his team decided to build out an MVP using Glitch.
“Glitch enabled us to quickly get code live, rapidly iterate, and focus on driving customer demand, without having to think about DevOps or Infrastructure”.
They used this prototype when seeking to raise a seed investment round, which they did — raising $1.1M in a round led by Flybridge.
Now, they’re launching their product to all.
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Lorem provides an “instant help” solution that matches business owners with a website task to a freelance developer or designer suited for the job within minutes. Their focus is on small, one-off jobs, like fixing broken parts of a website, customizing site CSS, or building third-party integrations. Lorem makes it easy to get website tasks taken care of quickly and easily.
Congratulations to Sam and the Lorem Technologies team on their successful launch! They will be on ProductHunt answering your questions about Lorem, so give them your feedback!
