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Black Crow AI bets on the click after the ad
A good ad can start a conversation. Black Crow AI builds the shopping pages that keep it going - and its most revealing customer story begins with an experiment that lost.
ClickFunnels and the art of the next yes
A sales funnel company discovered that its own customers needed a lesson before they needed a login. That discovery still explains the software, the spectacle, and the subscription.
Twitter Took Away Bitly's Rocket Ship. It Built a $63 Million Tollbooth Instead.
The internet's favorite link shortener lost its most important distributor, then found a better customer: the marketer who needed to know what happened after the click. The playbook is less about tiny URLs than turning a free habit into paid infrastructure.
Sherpa
Sherpa is a San Francisco startup building an AI agent that makes websites improve themselves. It installs with a single line of code, studies how visitors behave, generates on-brand variants of pages and flows, runs A/B tests on live traffic, and ships the winners - all without a designer, developer, or analyst in the loop. Founded in 2026 by ex-Lindy engineers Ethan Kinnan and Norbu Sonam and backed by Y Combinator (Spring 2026 / P26 batch), Sherpa also optimizes sites for AI agents, tuning agent-facing pages so that assistants recommend a company more often. Early customers report 15-35% lifts in their primary conversion metric within the first 30-60 days.
Zyner
Zyner is a subscription design service for founders and marketing teams. For a flat monthly fee, startups submit unlimited design requests through Slack and get work back from senior designers, a dedicated project manager and a fractional creative director - covering brand identity, pitch decks, Framer websites, UI/UX, motion and ad creative. The pitch is a full creative department without full-time hiring, built around fast turnaround. Zyner says it has worked with 320+ startups, including many Y Combinator companies.
Placester
Placester is a Boston-based real estate technology company that gives agents, teams and brokerages a no-code way to build IDX-ready websites and run their marketing. Founded in 2011 by former agent Matt Barba and technologist Frederick Townes, it pairs drag-and-drop website building with MLS/IDX listing search, a built-in CRM, and email automation. After raising roughly $100M-plus in venture funding and acquiring RealSatisfied, Barba and a group of investors bought the company back from its VCs in 2020 to refocus on its core product and customers. Placester says its tools have served on the order of 400,000 real estate professionals.
Flodesk
Flodesk is a bootstrapped, San Francisco-based email marketing and e-commerce platform built for creators, coaches, and small businesses that care about design. Founded in 2019 by Rebecca Shostak, Martha Bitar, and Trong Dong, it pairs an intuitive drag-and-drop email builder with beautiful templates, automations, forms, link-in-bio pages, and a no-fee Stripe checkout. The company grew profitably to more than $36 million in annual recurring revenue and over 100,000 paying customers without taking outside funding, and in 2026 it launched Flodesk Studio, an AI design app that turns hours of email creation into minutes.
Blake Emal
Blake Emal is a SaaS copywriter, solopreneur, and founder of Pagetear - a subscription copywriting service for tech startups. He rose to prominence as Employee #1 and CMO of Copy.ai, where he helped grow the company from $40K to $250K MRR. Known for growing his Twitter following from 700 to 91,000+ in under a year, Blake teaches practical marketing, landing page conversion, and personal branding. He writes copy for clients like Samsung, Betterment, and TripAdvisor through Pagetear.