airgpu Revenue (2021)

AirGPU generated $125 in monthly recurring revenue at the time of the May 2021 interview, with five customers each paying $25 per month. The company's first sale was also $25, recorded approximately five months after Frese wrote the first line of code in December 2020.

AirGPU had five paying customers as of the May 2021 interview, all acquired within approximately five months of the product's first line of code being written. Each customer pays $25 per month for access to a cloud-hosted gaming PC.

Frese acquired his initial customers through cold outreach via personal messages on the Cloudy Gamer subreddit, targeting users who had expressed a need for cloud gaming solutions. The product was in beta at the time of the interview, and Frese stated he was not aggressively pushing customer acquisition until platform stability issues were resolved. A free tier was not mentioned in the interview.

AirGPU charges customers $25 per month for access to a cloud-hosted gaming PC streamed to their local device. The company uses Amazon Web Services for its compute infrastructure and pays on a per-use basis, meaning costs scale with customer usage. Frese acknowledged that margins are not as high as in other software businesses given the underlying infrastructure costs, but stated the business would be profitable at scale, saying a thousand customers would be feasible and not result in losses.

The exact cost per customer was not disclosed, as Frese said he was still gathering usage data during the beta to understand the cost structure at scale. Gross margin, churn, LTV, CAC, and burn rate were not discussed in the interview. The company has been fully bootstrapped with no outside capital reported.

AirGPU had one employee at the time of the May 2021 interview: founder Sven Frese, who runs the company entirely on his own alongside a full-time job as a software engineer. No plans to hire were discussed.