Scaling Our Chrome Extension To 100K+ Users And $50K/Month MRR [Update]

This is a follow up story for RatePunk. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published almost 3 years ago, check it out here.

Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.

Hello again, startuppers! I’m Justin Albertynas and I’m one of the founders of a travel-tech startup, a browser extension named RatePunk. Back when I first wrote about Ratepunk for Starter Story (you can read about our very start here), we only had our most basic feature - price comparison for different booking websites live & for free, available on all major web browsers.

We have grown quite a bit and introduced many new exciting features, which I will be talking about here. We’re also branching out to offer not only B2C but B2B services too.

We focus on everyone interested in travel and traveling cheaper, smarter, and easier. We want to level the playing field for all travelers so that nobody gets abused by any shady business practices that are quite common in this industry nowadays

Currently, Ratepunk’s revenue is around $50.000/month. And we can proudly say that we’ve grown from 500+ users to 100k+ users! Our users booked 40.000 hotels, with savings ranging from 5% to 79% from the initial price of the hotel.