Station F startup campus interior in Paris

2015 to 2018 · Paris, France

Koalike

Founder

I started my first marketing automation venture with Koalike: an Instagram growth software product that reached roughly $20k in monthly recurring revenue, with a $29.99/month average plan and customers across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Paris founder mode

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peak monthly recurring revenue

$20k

average plan

$29.99/month

customer reach

global

I sold Koalike to customers in the United States, Canada, 13 European Union countries, Australia, New Zealand, and other markets.

Koalike dashboard shown on a laptop and phone

The original product screenshot shows the dashboard and action controls behind the growth loop: follower tracking, account actions, interests, settings, and the mobile control surface.

Work breakdown

I founded Koalike as an Instagram growth automation product for brands and creators.

I grew the product to roughly $20k in monthly recurring revenue on a $29.99/month average plan, implying around 667 active subscriptions at that revenue level.

I built workflows that analyzed account content, used tags and interests to find relevant audiences, and performed controlled like, follow, and scheduled unfollow actions.

I shipped the operational software surface around it: dashboards, action toggles, interests, pricing, subscriptions, account linking, support, admin, task queues, and analytics.

I participated in the early Station F ecosystem.

01

Instagram growth automation

I built Koalike around a simple promise: find people who cared about a brand and turn them into active followers through account analysis, targeting, and controlled engagement.

02

Production software machinery

I grew the product to roughly $20k in monthly recurring revenue with a $29.99/month average plan, backed by Google App Engine services, APIs, Datastore models, task queues, Stripe billing, BigQuery analytics, dashboards, mobile account linking, and admin/support flows.

03

Worldwide customer base

I took Koalike beyond a local-only experiment and into a real international subscription footprint.

04

Marketing systems through-line

I can trace a line from Koalike to Aranx: audience discovery, automated growth workflows, measurable acquisition loops, and building the whole product myself.

Evidence notes

I keep these provenance cues here so the page stays specific without pretending every private archive is public proof.

  • github.com/jclanoe/koalike
  • Archived Koalike product copy
  • Personal Koalike metrics
  • societe.com
  • Le Figaro Entreprises
  • Personal Station F context