Sachin Muralidhar

Sachin Muralidhar is a San Francisco Bay Area founder and the developer behind Thrifter, a swipe-based secondhand fashion marketplace for iPhone.¹⁶ Thrifter is his third startup; he reached initial revenue on March 26, 2025, four months after starting it and after two earlier pivots.³ He is in the Canopy Spring 2026 cohort at Founders, Inc.

Background

Muralidhar's LinkedIn lists the University of Virginia as his education.¹ In an April 27, 2025 LinkedIn post, he wrote, "I spent all of last summer coding in these University of Virginia Darden School of Business classrooms," accompanying a return visit to the school to run a case study with UVA's Advertising and Marketing Association.⁴

His father, Arun Muralidhar, has publicly identified Sachin as his son on LinkedIn, in a post about advice he passed down on entrepreneurship; the elder Muralidhar's post is hashtagged with #assetmanagement, indicating his professional area.⁷

Thrifter

Muralidhar began building Thrifter in late 2024.³ His Apple developer account also lists buzz, described on the App Store as "location based chats" for finding nearby communities.⁵ In a March 28, 2025 post he wrote, "after two pivots and four months into my third startup, thrifter recorded initial revenue on March 26th."³

The current "Tinder for Thrifting" swipe interface launched in early October 2025; in a LinkedIn post on October 16, 2025, Muralidhar wrote that the app had crossed 100,000 swipes in the previous three days.² That post followed nine months of "pivoting, iterating, and navigating the complexities of the secondhand market."²

The legal entity behind Thrifter is A Fish N Sea LLC.⁶ App Store reviewers describe Muralidhar as personally responsive: one user, ahan.mp4, wrote on July 10, 2025 that "the founder has even sent me personal messages for feedback and how to improve his app," and another reported that the developer reached out and issued a full refund after a seller failed to ship.⁶

Public profile

Muralidhar's stated mission for Thrifter, repeated across the App Store description and the marketing site, is to "end fast fashion."⁶⁸ The App Store copy frames the argument as "if resale is not easier and more efficient, we fall behind."⁶ He documents the build publicly, posting daily on Instagram under the handle thrift.detective and writing first-person LinkedIn updates marking milestones — first revenue, the swipe-interface launch, the 100K-swipe surge, and the April 2025 return to UVA Darden.³²⁴

References

1. Sachin Muralidhar — LinkedIn(accessed Apr 17, 2026)
2. Sachin Muralidhar: thrifter crossed 100K+ swipes — LinkedIn (Oct 16, 2025)(accessed Apr 17, 2026)
3. Sachin Muralidhar: thrifter recorded initial revenue on March 26 — LinkedIn (Mar 28, 2025)(accessed Apr 17, 2026)
4. Sachin Muralidhar: I spent all of last summer coding in these UVA Darden classrooms — LinkedIn (Apr 27, 2025)(accessed Apr 17, 2026)
5. Sachin Muralidhar — App Store developer page(accessed Apr 17, 2026)
6. thrifter: swipe secondhand! — App Store(accessed Apr 17, 2026)
7. Arun Muralidhar: shared advice with my son Sachin Muralidhar — LinkedIn(accessed Apr 17, 2026)
8. thrifter — Official site(accessed Apr 17, 2026)