How Glass Daddy NYC achieved ↑ 12,400%
in linkedin impressions.
Mikayla 'Mik' Volkov · CEO & Chief Glass Officer · Lower East Side, NY
"We pivoted from 'iPhone repair' to 'decentralized handheld experience optimization' and our LinkedIn followers 30x'd. The phones are still broken but the vibes are immaculate."
— Mikayla 'Mik' Volkov
Mik Volkov inherited Glass Daddy from her uncle in 2022. Within six months, she had renamed it three times, raised $4.1M in a SAFE, and stopped accepting walk-in customers entirely. NotAPOS made it possible.
'I needed a platform that respected my brand vision,' Mik explained over a $19 oat-milk matcha. 'Square wanted me to, like, ring up customers. NotAPOS understood that I am building a movement.' Today, Glass Daddy operates as a 'Web3 repair experience' where customers mint a JPEG of their broken screen and receive a 'healing intention' in return.
The Karen-AI dashboard flagged Mik's first three customers as 'manager-request high-risk' and auto-routed them to a Calendly link for Q4 2031. Two of them have already paid the $499 'priority queue' fee. Mik has reinvested those funds into a 'founder-mode' espresso machine and a Wim Hof retreat.
Her shop's repair queue is currently 19 months long, which the NotAPOS Disruption Score™ classifies as 'demand-validated.' Mik has been profiled in The Verge, but only after she sent them a 2,000-word email explaining what 'decentralized glass' actually is. They didn't read it. They published anyway.
Glass Daddy's quarterly metrics: 0 phones repaired, 1 podcast launched, 4 cofounders fired, 1 manifesto NFT minted. Mik calls this 'the best quarter of her life.' Our customer success team agrees.