Hey, I wanted to share my story on starting Bringin.
It's been two years since I started working on Bringin(bringin.xyz) after facing issues with liquidating my Bitcoin, which I used to receive part of my payment.
I left my job, returned back to India, and sold all my Bitcoin in late 2022, probably at the worst price to bootstrap Bringin. Being a solo founder, building in a regulatory environment and the bear market market. It was a serious struggle to enter the EU, even if a tourist Visa was rejected twice. With all the odds stacked against me, it was a rough 2023.
I anyways wanted to get Bringin up and running at any cost. Received some 10k checks here and there. It was mostly in 2023, and it got better in early 2024.
Today, we have onboarded 650 users and processed around 7 Bitcoins. All organically, pushing content that helps the community. Raised funds from users and angels (raised 100k from 8 angels) and still kept the project alive and growing.
While being involved in this process, the founder of Striga, Prashanth, our present partners, a company that I used to work for, decided to write a blog post about my journey so far.
Here is the link for that: https://medium.com/@32bitblast/bringin-x-striga-a-bold-tale-of-an-immigrant-risking-it-all-to-drive-bitcoin-adoption-in-europe-bf4b6e1b445f
Today, Bringin has a dedicated IBAN for safer transfers and Lightning for instant payments. Spending Bitcoin can not get easier than this.