He Solved His Own Problem and Turned It into a $2.5M/year Business (1 min 45 sec read)

The Backstory

Todd Hooper was a software engineer building JavaScript-heavy apps with AngularJS.

But there was a problem:

Google couldn't "read" the content.

It couldn't index any of it.

This led to poor SEO.

Poor SEO = Fewer Users = Dead Business.

So he built a simple tool.

It helped search engines read JavaScript-heavy pages.

He open-sourced it on GitHub.

Developers quickly adopted it.

The Product Breakdown

Prerender.io

→ Renders dynamic JS pages into plain HTML

→ So Google and other crawlers can index them

→ Works great for SPAs (single-page apps)

→ Hosted version available—no setup headaches