Geocode.xyz

How We 2x'd Our Business And Grew Revenue From $15K To $30K/Month

Ervin Ruci
Founder, Geocode.xyz
$30K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
2
Employees
Geocode.xyz
from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
started December 2016
$30,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
2
Employees
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Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.

I’m Ervin Ruci, a tinkerer and researcher mostly interested in the areas of NLP and Computational Geometry.

Since 2005 I’ve started an average of 1 new business per year with many flops and some successes. One such success is Geocode.xyz (started in 2016) and Poidata.xyz (a pivot of geocode.xyz started in February 2021.) All my businesses are run under the umbrella of Geolytica INC, my incorporated entity with exactly one member, me.

My customers range from researchers creating quick dashboards of geodata to Fortune 500 companies. I sell API access, data products, and software both directly and indirectly via the AWS and GCP Marketplaces. I did pretty well financially in 2021, and it looks like 2022 will be even better with several large contracts coming down the pipeline.

Although this sounds like the typical hedonic treadmill, money is not the main motivator for me, but solving a problem I’ve been at for a long time is: finding ground truth at the speed of life.

I’m not saying that financial success in a solo bootstrapped business is not important, it is also important to receive...

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