The founders of Rorka were almost rinsed when the viral tweet led to USD 2.8 million and A16Z

The founders of Rork Levan Kvirkvelia and Daniel Dhawan live a life that appears like a film plot – but it happened.

They did a rinse, with exhausted savings of life and USD 15,000, the debt of the bank card – Dhawan even slept on a mattress in a friend’s apartment – to generate $ 100,000 revenues in five days.

This led to a round of flooding value $ 2.8 million run by the latest Andreessen Horowitz program, with other fast -entering supporters, equivalent to Elizabeth Yin Fund, chapter, founders Inc., Austen Allred, Charlie Cheever Expo, and Evan Bacon, Siqi Chen and more.

All because one person wrote on Twitter about his Vibe Coder Product mobile application, and the tweet became viral. Rork allows people with a limited technical background to create mobile applications with easy text monitor.

On February 12, after months of work and one turn, Kvirkvelia and Dhawan launched Rork with a tweet.

“We were complete weaker. We really lacked money soon,” said Dhawan from TechCrunch.

They received a small check from one investor’s angel, Matt Shumer, co -founder and general director of Otherideai, which makes the AI ​​tool tool.

Their first tweet was a bit donated, but only on February 24, when people tweet about the competitive product of the company called Bolt, which Shumer published on X, which in his opinion was higher than Bolt.

“My jaw has just fallen”, shumer wrote in his x post. “Rork allows you to create entire iOS applications, simply describing them! Zero. Code. Required. This changes everything to the development of the application. Rork blows up from the water (and yes, I invested immediately after trying).”

Shumer contained a video Rork, and Post blew up, winning over a million views.

The use of RORK also increased immediately, but the founders were financially imprisoned. Each of them took USD 15,000 debt on bank cards to keep the application to work.

“We paid for artificial intelligence from our own pockets because we did not collect large funds,” said Dhawan. “We are almost with money. And then 15 minutes after this post Austen Allred invested $ 100,000.”

At the end of the day of the tweet of Shumer, founder of Inc. And Hustle Fund was ready to invest, while a warm intro for other investors and angels flew. “Basically, it was like $ 350,000 this first day. And it was really crazy.”

With money

Although it appears like immediate success-and by some means, it was more like saving from the founders.

It was the third startup for everyone; Earlier they developed the hit mobile applications, starting with teenagers. They are now 25 years old (kvirkvelia) and 27 (dhawan).

But they went through the majority of money earned by these other applications working on the predecessor of Rorka, an atmospheric coder similar to the cursor addressed to non -technical users.

Dhawan has been in San Francisco from December to participate in Founders Inc. and collect funds, working for Christmas and Sleeping on the mattress in the apartment of the YC founder, while Kvirkvelia stayed at home in Georgia to build a latest product. Collecting funds didn’t go well.

Then the Lovable competitor began and immediately became viral. But the Rork product was not ready to compete with nice. “We already had a prototype and then they started,” recalls Dhawan. “We were really disappointed.”

So Kvirkvelia convinced Dhawan that they need to change the course. Instead of building one other dear who touches the AI ​​web coding, they need to return to their roots and build nice for mobile applications.

Nobody has done this before – at least not good – because it is as hard as creating web sites building native mobile applications is “like 10 times more complicated,” Kvirkvelia TechCrunch said.

“We are friendly to Expo. Charming for react,” said Kvirkvelia, referring to two popular frames for programming mobile applications.

Then the competing startup Bolt released a mobile product encoding coding, and the founders had Déjà VU, fearing that they’d be beaten from the market again. Dhawan said they fired the same day as Bolt.

After the tweet shumer became viral and the angels began to flow, one of their latest angels introduced the founders of Andrew Chen, a general partner running the latest Speedrun Andreessen Horowitz program. Speedrun is a 12-week A16Z mentor program for startups at an early stage. It covers things like loans value $ 5 million from company partners equivalent to AWS, Google Cloud, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, Stripe, Deel and others. He also normally invests up to $ 1 million.

Chen reached out, but Dhawan didn’t jump immediately. He explained to Chen that he was already on hand a time sheet from one other company. Chen, determined so as not to miss, did his own speed in his company and quickly provided a competitive offer. The founders of Rork accepted, caught their money from seeds and will participate in the Kohort planned on July 28.

“Daniel and Levan are highly technical polymatomas who deeply understand the development and mobile distribution, which allowed them to quickly build a fantastic platform,” said Chen of TechCrunch by E -Mail. “They are exactly the type of founders we are happy with A16Z Speedrun.”

Even higher than financing, paying users are coming in. Two months after Shumera’s viral tweet, this team of two reached $ 550,000 ARR, says Dhawan.

And now he is outside the floor and also lives in his own apartment.