behind the change.

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Pat Walls

1 change across 1 product documented · latest archive capture Jul 3, 2026

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Our reading

Pat’s post-acquisition Starter Story homepage turns a deep founder archive into a free discovery product, showing the data before asking visitors to commit.

Decisions, newest first

  1. Starter StoryOther

    Starter Story made its database the product, and made it free.

    Compare Starter Story before and after it replaced a founder-membership pitch with a free, live database of revenue-generating projects.

    4,502 case studies and a founder community2,855+ live projects, free to explore

    Archive captures: May 11, 2026 → Jul 3, 2026

In their words

“If anything, we're going to have more resources, bigger interviews, more shows, better production, more tools, and more experiments.”

Pat Walls · What Pat said after the acquisition · Feb 2026 · Starter Story

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