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A survey tool with no ads, no trackers and no cookies, sold to companies that legally cannot leak respondent data — $115K/month recurring from a three-day hackathon build
500+ customers · 10M+ survey submissions · 40% of revenue from enterprise, 60% from individuals and small businesses · individual plans from $29/mo (creator-reported)
He made the product free to harvest reviews and case studies, converted 2-3% of those users to paid — then deleted the free tier the moment he hit $1K MRR, specifically to stop attracting people who were never going to pay.
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Wilson Bright was a quality assurance engineer at Fidelity Investments and then a business systems consultant at Wells Fargo Securities. He knew he wanted to build something, so he did the unglamorous prerequisite first: he saved up a couple of years of runway before starting. BlockSurvey itself began at a hackathon. The hackathon ran three days, and on the third day he launched it on Product Hunt. That's the entire origin — a weekend build, shipped publicly before the weekend was over. What it grew into is a privacy-focused survey platform for organisations that cannot use a normal survey tool: no ads, no trackers, no cookies, end-to-end encryption, and identity handled through blockchain rather than a conventional account system. The pitch is data ownership — the company running the survey collects answers without a third party (including BlockSurvey) being able to read them. The wedge was web3 companies, chosen because they have data-collection problems nobody else was solving: token gating a survey so only holders can respond, collecting on-chain identities, building whitelists and allowlists, running airdrop eligibility checks and holder surveys. Those are not features a general survey tool ships. The reported result at the time of the video is $115,000 a month in recurring revenue, more than 500 customers, and over 10 million submissions processed. Revenue splits 40% enterprise and 60% individuals and small businesses, which is an unusually healthy mix for a bootstrapped tool — it means neither half of the business is a rounding error.
The first exposure was a Product Hunt launch on day three of the three-day hackathon that built the product — the thing shipped publicly before the weekend ended. After that, Wilson Bright ran it free, and the point of the free period was not volume.
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Data credibility: Creator-reported. This is a faceless analysis channel narrating a written founder interview — the narrator says outright that a link to "the original source material for this article" is in the description. It is not a first-person founder interview, no dashboard is shown, and nothing is verified by third-party data. Reported figures: $115,000/month recurring revenue, 500+ customers, 10M+ submissions, a 40/60 enterprise-to-self-serve revenue split, $29/mo entry pricing, ~2-3% free-to-paid conversion, free tier removed at $1K MRR, 20 free responses, 1,000+ SEO template pages, ~$100 newsletter sponsorships, and product-led growth at 10-15% of traffic. Two things do not reconcile and we are not smoothing them over: (a) $115K/month across 500+ customers implies ~$230 average revenue per customer, well above the $29 entry price, so either the customer count is paying-customer-only with heavy enterprise weighting or the figures come from different dates; (b) the video's own title says "$15K/mo" while the narration says $115,000/month. The stack (Stacks blockchain anchored to Bitcoin for identity and storage, Angular front end, Node.js back end, Cloudflare Workers) and the three-day-hackathon origin with a day-three Product Hunt launch are as stated. No location, city or country appears anywhere in the transcript — prior employers (Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo Securities) are companies with operations in multiple countries and are not a location claim — so region is left null.
The first dollar came from a free user who ran a real survey and hit the ceiling. The funnel pushes every new account toward one milestone — create your first survey, collect your first three responses — and the first 20 responses are free, at which point the upgrade prompt fires.
The flywheel is built into the product category. Every survey is distributed by link, so each customer who sends one puts the tool in front of an audience that never signed up for anything — which is why onboarding is engineered around getting a user to collect three responses as fast as possible.
He removed the financial half of the problem before starting: he saved a couple of years of runway while still employed at Fidelity Investments and Wells Fargo Securities, then began.
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