1:01:00The 2-Week Social App Doing $1M/Month
From My First Million · Published Jul 4, 2025 · Watch on YouTube
TL;DR
Time Left is a dinner-with-strangers app that hit $10M ARR in ten months after three years of failed product iterations. Founder Maxime Barbier launched the final version in three weeks using Typeform, WhatsApp, and Stripe, manually matching guests for three months before building a simple app.
Key insights
- Dinner functions as a natural “technology” with a built-in start, middle, end, and zero skill requirement — it makes meeting strangers easy because everyone already knows how to do it.
- Three prior app iterations (bucket list, dream-matching, one-on-one activity matching) failed because they lacked a safe, scalable, photo-free group format that didn’t feel like dating.
- Photos in a social-matching app immediately made users treat it as a dating app, even when it wasn’t — removing photos was the critical design shift.
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