The founders of RORK were almost bankrupt when the viral tweets led to $ 2.8 million and A16Z.

Locke founder Levan Kvirkvelia and Daniel Dhawan lives like a plot of the film. But it actually happened.

They spent bankruptcy and life -saving and went to $ 15,000 with a credit card -KVIRKVELIA was even sleeping on a friend’s apartment mattress and earned $ 100,000 in five days.

And it led the $ 2.8 million seed round led by the new Speedrun program of Andressen Horowitz. Other supporters have stacked Hustle Fund Elizabeth Yin, Chapterone, Founders Inc., Austen Alled, Expo Charlie Cheever, Evan Bacon, and Runway’s Siqi Chen.

This is because the tweet is in the virus because one person tweets the mobile app VIBE CODER product. RORK allows people with technical backgrounds to build a mobile app with simple text prompt.

On February 12, after several months and one pivot, KVIRKVELIA and DHAWAN launched RORK on tweets.

“We were a complete weak, we really lacked money.

They received a small check from the AI ​​Writing Tool Hyper period from an angel investor, a co -founder of OTHERSIDEAI.

Their first tweets went a little, but until February 24, when people tweeted the Competition of Bolt, SHUMER thought RORK was better than BOLT, SHUMER posted on X.

SHUMER can create a full iOS app by explaining the iOS app by using “My jaw is falling.” 0. Code. essential. Everything changes for app development. RORK BLOW BOLT floats bolts out of the water (eg, invested immediately after trying). “

Shumer also includes a video of RORK. And the post exploded and saw more than a million times.

The use of locks also soared immediately, but founders were trapped. Each of them raised $ 15,000 with a credit card to keep running the app.

Dhawan said, “We basically paid a lot of money in our pockets because we didn’t basically raise money.” We rarely made money. And 15 minutes after this post, Austen Alled invested $ 100,000. ”

At the end of the day of SHUMER’s Tweet, the founder Inc. and Hustle Fund were already ready to invest, and warm instros were flew to other investors and angels. “So basically it was $ 350,000 on the first day. And it’s really crazy.”

With money

This sounds like an immediate success, but to some extent it was similar to the founders of almost death.

This was the third boot strap startup. They have developed a hit mobile app before in their teens. They are currently 25 years old and 27 years old.

But they suffered a lot of cash gained by other apps that worked as a predecessor of Locke, the same atmosphere as a cursor for non -technical users.

DHAWAN worked in San Francisco from December and attended Founders Inc. and Fundraise and worked through Christmas. KVIRKVELIA sleeps on a mattress at a YC founder friend’s apartment, and KVIRKVELIA stayed home in Georgia to create a new product. The fundraising was not good.

Then the competitor Lovable began and immediately fell into the virus. But their products are not ready to compete with Lovable. “We have already fired after completing the prototype.” We were really disappointed. “

So KVIRKVELIA was convinced that Dhawan had to change the course. Rather than building another lovely that deals with AI web coding, you need to go back to the roots and build a lovely thing for mobile apps.

KVIRKVELIA spoke to Techcrunch.

Kvirkvelia said, “We are lovely to the expo. It’s a lovely work for reactions.”

The rival startup bolt then launched a mobile vibe coding product, and the founders had a Deja VU and were afraid that they would defeat again in the market. Dhawan started the same day as BOLT, Dhawan said.

After SHUMER’s tweets fell into the virus and angels began to pour out, one of their new angels introduced the founders to Andrew Chen, a general partner who runs Andreesen Horowitz’s new Speedrun program. SPEEDRUN is a 12 -week mentoring program of A16Z for early stage startups. This includes $ 5 million in credit from company partners, such as AWS, Google Cloud, Openai, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Stripe, Deel, etc. In general, invest up up to $ 1 million.

Chen reached out, but Dawan did not jump immediately. He explained to Chen that he already had all seed terms of seeds from another company. Chen, who decided not to miss it, played his speed at the company and quickly conveyed the competition proposal. The founders of Locke have been accepted and shaken their seeds and will attend Cohort, which will begin on July 28.

Chen emails Techcrunch, “Daniel and Levan are highly technical polymers that deeply understand mobile development and distribution.” They are pleased to go back to A16z Speedrun. “

DHAWAN says Dhawan says that the viral tweets of the viral tweets are much better than the funds paid for two months after the $ 550,000 for two months after two months.

And he is out of the floor and lives in his apartment.