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Chatbase is a platform for deploying customer-facing AI agents for businesses. Founder Yasa El Say — an Egyptian immigrant to Canada who started out as a computer science student — bootstrapped it solo to roughly $10M ARR in about three years (the video's title converts that to about $833K/mo). V1 predated ChatGPT's release and was built on OpenAI's Davinci-003, making it one of the most OG GPT wrappers in existence, though today he insists on calling it a “harness,” not a “wrapper.”
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Create free accountEmail code only. No password.Data credibility: ⚠️ The founder self-reports having bootstrapped to $10M ARR (which the title converts to roughly $833K/mo); this comes from an interview, with no independent financial evidence. The early milestones (first sale within 30 minutes of launch, $1M ARR in 4 months) are also self-reported. All revenue figures are founder-reported or estimated by the video's creator, unaudited. Location confirmed from a separate founder interview (youtube.com/watch?v=v60C5Qux6K8) in which he says "I live in Toronto" and describes leaving a four-year degree at York. The founder's name in this entry came through a Chinese-language repost and may be transliterated — it is not spelled out anywhere in the interview audio.