# Nick Timms

> How we build companies with AI instead of hiring. 11 startups since 2013, 5 this year, 0 new hires. All of it shared, newsletter first.

Nick Timms builds software companies with his co-founder Duda Timms (@dudabardavid). They are not engineers and they do not hire: AI agents, run on a Mac Mini, do the work a team would. Everything they build is written up on this site, often with the prompts, files and Claude skills they use.

## Key numbers
- 5 startups launched in 2026
- 240k+ users
- 0 new hires in 2026

## Companies
- [DragApp](https://dragapp.com) (live): Shared inboxes for teams, inside Gmail. Since 2017. 240k+ sign-ups.
- [HeyHelp](https://heyhelp.ai) (live): Your personal AI inbox in Gmail. 3k+ sign-ups.
- [AgentData](https://useagentdata.com) (live): Get real-time customer lists of your closest competitors. 133M companies tracked.
- [Varley](https://varley.ai) (live): The AI inside Drag that resolves conversations. $0.50 a resolution. 238 teams.
- [Whoisvisiting](https://www.whoisvisiting.com) (live): Shows B2B websites which companies are visiting, so sales can follow up. $5.5M+ revenue and 3,200+ customers since 2013.
- [Mat Track](https://mattrackapp.com) (live): Software and a directory for BJJ and MMA gyms.
- [In a Word](https://inaword.ai) (in beta): Long voice message? Handled. Two minutes of talk, turned into actions and one-tap answers.
- [Oneway](https://oneway.tools) (in beta): Live chat, email and newsletters. It sends this site’s email.
- [BrainTwo](https://braintwo.ai/about) (in beta): Your knowledge, from your emails and docs.
- [Found.ly](https://nicktimms.com/notes?product=foundly) (retired): Company data, long before AgentData. Its idea lives on there.
- [ReplyUp](https://nicktimms.com/notes?product=replyup) (retired)

## Notes
- [Why we’re building a personal brand](https://nicktimms.com/notes/why-a-personal-brand): decision. Engineering has always been the bottleneck. It no longer is. A short first post on why we’re building in public.

## Pages
- [Home](https://nicktimms.com/): who we are, every company, the latest notes
- [Notes](https://nicktimms.com/notes): every note, filterable by company and type
- [The 100k experiment](https://nicktimms.com/stats): open numbers for building a founder brand in public
- [RSS](https://nicktimms.com/rss.xml)

## Elsewhere
- [X](https://x.com/timmsbuilds)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmsnick)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/timmsbuilds)
- [Threads](https://www.threads.com/@timmsbuilds)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/nick-timms)