Ramya Chinnadurai’s Post

In 2022, I won $10,000 from Twitter. A few months later, everything we were promised disappeared. Here’s the story I rarely talk about 👇 In Nov 2020, we started our company with big hopes. No revenue. No traction. Our first product failed - not because it was bad, but because we didn’t know how to sell. On Feb 5, 2022, we launched TweetsMash. Twitter tools were trending. Builders were shipping fast. For the first time, we saw real users… and real money. Then came the Twitter Chirp Developer Challenge (2022). 150+ products. We won first place. 🥇 Prize money: $10,000 - the biggest amount we had ever made. They invited us to the conference in US. Promised 1 year of marketing support. It felt like everything had finally turned around. And then   Elon Musk acquired Twitter.  Twitter became X.  Our invite was cancelled. The marketing support vanished. What stayed?  The $10k. That’s it. So we went back to zero - again. But this time, we were different. We learned marketing step by step. We studied users. We survived competition, AI waves, and constant change. Life happened too: • I became a mom • My co-founder Karthikeyan Kumar became a dad • We lived in different countries & time zones Still, we adapted. Today, we run two profitable SaaS products: • TweetsMash • LinkedMash Not viral success. Not overnight growth. Just consistent learning → survival → sustainability. If there’s one thing this journey taught me: If I can do this - starting with zero clarity, zero revenue, and multiple restarts - you can too. Progress isn’t loud. But it compounds.