2022-2024

$500k Milestone

Entered the trough of sorrow and got pretty burnt out. Focused more on life during this down period.

• Bought our own homes
• Picked up running
• Travelled / worked overseas

2021

Our first $100k

Lots of late nights and weekends, but we signed our first enterprise customer!

• Acquired our first enterprise customer, SAP
• First $100k in revenue

Won $32,000

Just in time (with borders reopening) to fund working remotely overseas :)

Grand Prize Winner of the Square Hackathon 2021

Built an automation platform designed to help small business owners get more done and grow without needing to hire more staff.

2020

Founded Pory

Officially launched our first product in 34 days on the 25th of May, 2020.

• Raised $400k USD in pre-seed funding (December)
• #2 product of the day on Product Hunt (September)
• Incorporated Shooting Unicorns in the United States (August)
• Accepted into Mozilla's $75k usd Incubator Program (July)
• First paying customer on the same day after shipping subscriptions (June)
• #4 product of the day on Product Hunt (May)

Pory

Built a no-code platform for building internal tools and portals with Airtable. It's the easiest way to share and manage records with external parties.

2019

#1 on Hacker News

24,000+ users came onto the shooting unicorns blog from HN in a single day.

From Mac to Linux - The setup I've grown to love

Submitted an opinionated article onto Hacker News on going from Mac to Linux.

Won expense paid trip to New York City

Submitted our project to the MongoDB World Hackathon and pitched in front of 2,000+ people.

Top 3 Finalist at MongoDB World 2019

Built a platform for learning how to create trading strategies, test using historical data and automate without burning our wallets. Inspired by our own personal experiences with learning how to trade.

2018

Won $9,827.87 in cash prizes

Participated in hackathons as an outlet to test if any ideas had legs to become something more.

2nd Place in AWS AI Hackathon

Built an empathy-powered movie buddy robot that recommends movies using chat, image recognition, and a person's mood—by determining user happiness through facial analysis.

Innovation Space Award from City of Melbourne

Built a platform using open data for buskers to identify the best time and location to perform.

2nd Place in Open Innovation Competition (2018)

Built a turn-by-turn navigation system to assist the blind or vision impaired to navigate unfamiliar places including permit events, construction sites, tactile ground surfaces and locations with heavy pedestrian traffic.

Top writer in Startups on Medium

Wrote a few pieces about our entrepreneurial journey and submitted them to publications.

5 years later and I'm still just a wantrepreneur 🙈

Balance ambition with critical reflection on your actual and not perceived abilities. It's ok not to be ready yet.

2017