The most inspirational covid startup you've never heard of!

Just discovered https://www.joinsherpa.com/ and out of all the "covid startups" I found, I think this one is my favorite.
All they do is provide airlines with information on visas / travel regularion.

The idea is straight forward, they focused on a minuscule niche, and solve a single problem well.
The first investment they got was 2019 (4 years after they were founded in 2015!) and it was only 10k. Over the next 2 years they got a total of 11mil in investments.

The comparison is unfair since sherpa is backed by investors, but it has essentially the same value proposition as https://visalist.io/. Yet it reached a completely different scale by focusing on such a tight yet profitable niche.

Also, the way they started is a bit pathetic haha: https://twitter.com/visaruninc?lang=en

I love looking at these kinds of startups. The Indiehackers forum is awesome, but it's such a bubble in terms of the startups we talk about and take as examples.
Sherpa has been completely obscure for 5 years, yet for some reason the founders stuck with the idea until the timing was right.

Lots of lessons to be learned from them. For me personally, it's a reinforcer to stick with an idea until you have a very, very concrete reason to abandon it. It's always easy to want to pivot if you're not getting any early traction, but maybe the timing just isn't right, or you haven't found the right customers yet. And maybe an idea just needs a few small tweaks to make it big.

Unfortunately there isn't too much information about them out there, but maybe @csallen can get them on the podcast some day 😁 really curious to hear the full story.

Also, since this is a prevalent idea on this forum: No, not all ideas are taken. Every day there are new industries, new niches, new opportunities.