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Dustin McCaffrey

Founder, mis.click · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dustin McCaffree is a software engineer and serial creator who built projects such as Rocket Note, Jolt, Drawpoint, and file.rocks. He joined Copy.ai as an early founding engineer to architect its frontend, and later launched his studio, mis.click.

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3 assertions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Dustin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Assertion Supported
Copy.ai reached $1M+ ARR using a hacked-together Webflow front-end
“The back end, like single messy long file. The front end is a hacked together work web flow site that's made into a web app. Literally like it's rock bottom as far as product can get. So it's only up from here. So what we're working on right now, no offense to…”
Dustin McCaffrey May 1, 2021 ▶ 17:00 Building in Public, He Sold Side Project for $10k, Then Launched Jolt, Now at CopyAI

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Everything Dustin McCaffrey said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Copy.ai reached $1M+ ARR using a hacked-together Webflow front-end
“The back end, like single messy long file. The front end is a hacked together work web flow site that's made into a web app. Literally like it's rock bottom as far as product can get. So it's only up from here. So what we're working on right now, no offense to…”
Dustin McCaffrey May 1, 2021 ▶ 17:00 Building in Public, He Sold Side Project for $10k, Then Launched Jolt, Now at CopyAI
Insight
Raising small angel checks prevents investors from gaining leverage over founders
“Really the goal and part of what Chris and Paul have done from the beginning is like, let's raise a little bit from a lot of people. We're getting so off topic, but I think that's really smart, right? Cause everybody has a little bit of skin in the game, but n…”
Dustin McCaffrey May 1, 2021 ▶ 15:53 Building in Public, He Sold Side Project for $10k, Then Launched Jolt, Now at CopyAI
Disclosure
Copy.ai hosts lunch-and-learns teaching its employees how to angel invest
“We're having lunch and learns on like how to be a good angel investor.”
Dustin McCaffrey May 1, 2021 ▶ 11:08 Building in Public, He Sold Side Project for $10k, Then Launched Jolt, Now at CopyAI
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rocket Note reached 3,000 signups but had low activity before sale
“Total signups was around 3000 by the time that I sold it, but the activity rate was pretty low on that.”
Dustin McCaffrey May 1, 2021 ▶ 2:58 Building in Public, He Sold Side Project for $10k, Then Launched Jolt, Now at CopyAI
Disclosure
McCaffrey listed Rocket Note for $3,000, selling for $10,000 after bidding
“Originally, I was asking 3000. I had no idea, like, that I had something that was worth more than that. I hadn't done my research really well. And then it was just bidding war up to my 10,000 that I ended up selling it for.”
Dustin McCaffrey May 1, 2021 ▶ 4:18 Building in Public, He Sold Side Project for $10k, Then Launched Jolt, Now at CopyAI
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Copy.ai grew to two co-founders and eight employees by May 2021
“I think we're like two co-founders and maybe like eight, eight team members, something like that. I got hired number three and then we've been hiring pretty quick after that.”
Dustin McCaffrey May 1, 2021 ▶ 12:53 Building in Public, He Sold Side Project for $10k, Then Launched Jolt, Now at CopyAI

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Appearances (1)

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Building in Public, He Sold Side Project for $10k, Then Launched Jolt, Now at CopyAI May 1, 2021 11m
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