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Andy Beohar
Tech Employee Quits to Build $275K MRR Marketing Agency
Andy left his tech job in 2014 and bootstrapped SevenAtoms to $275K MRR with a 90% client retention rate.
$3.3M/Jahr·$100K ARR in 5 years·Solo
Agentur / DienstleistungMarketing🇺🇸 US
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Derryck Strachan
Copywriter Spots SEO Demand, Builds $30K/Month Content Agency
Derryck recognized the growing demand for SEO content and built Big Star Copywriting to $30K/month, surviving the 2008 crash.
$360K/Jahr·$10K MRR in 3 years·Solo
Agentur / DienstleistungMarketing🇬🇧 GB
Steph Smith
Doing Content Right
Trends content lead sells $28K of her guide in launch month
Steph leveraged her experience leading content at The Hustle to launch Doing Content Right, selling $28,414 in the launch month and $47,014 in the first three months.
Erster Kunde in 0 days·Solo
Info-ProduktBildung🌍 Remote
Nathan Latka
Podcast Host Turns Interview Data into $150K MRR SaaS in 100 Days
Nathan turned his podcast interview data into Getlatka, reaching $20K/month in 100 days and $150K MRR within a year.
$1.8M/Jahr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Ellen Yin
Corporate Marketer Quits Job, Pre-Sells Course, Reaches 7 Figures
Ellen pre-sold her first program with zero content, then built it based on customer feedback to reach 7-figure lifetime revenue.
$1M/Jahr·$100K ARR in 2 years·Solo
Info-ProduktBildung🇺🇸 US
Sumit Bansal
Tech Worker Sees Excel Skills Gap, Builds Blog to 1M+ Visitors and $10K/Month
Sumit saw colleagues struggling with Excel and built TrumpExcel to 1M+ monthly pageviews and $10K/month revenue.
$54K/Jahr·$10K MRR in 3 years·Solo
Info-ProduktBildung🇮🇳 IN
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Mayank Jain
Digital Startup Veterans Build AI Content Platform, $100K MRR in Year One
Mayank and co-founders leveraged 10+ years of digital marketing experience to build Scalenut to $100K MRR in one year.
$10.3M/Jahr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
SaaSMarketing🇮🇳 IN
Hamish McKenzie
Newsletter Platform Co-Founder Lands First Publisher, Who Books Six Figures on Day One
Substack found its first customer in Bill Bishop, whose Sinocism newsletter reached a six-figure annual run rate on its first paid day.
$45M/Jahr·Erster Kunde in 3 months·Team
SaaSContent-Erstellung🇺🇸 US
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Prince
21-Year-Old Indian Developer Makes $3.5K in 2 Months Selling AI Chrome Extension Source Code
Prince built Helper-AI and earned $3.5K in 2 months by selling the source code on Gumroad - without a large following.
$1K MRR in 8 months·Solo
Chrome ExtensionAI / ML🇮🇳 IN
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Luca Restagno
Software Engineer Turned Solopreneur Shares First Year Journey to $1.5K MRR
Luca documented his solopreneur journey publicly on Twitter, reaching $1.5K MRR in his first year while working a day job.
$1K MRR in 1 year·Team
SaaSProduktivität🇮🇹 IT
Morflax Developer
3D Device Mockup Builder Generates $7K in First Month With Viral Tweet
Morflax launched with a viral tweet about the 3D mockup builder and generated $7K revenue in the first month.
Erster Kunde in 0 days·Solo
SaaSDesignUnknown
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Kushank Aggarwal
Prompt Genie
From Idea to First Customer in 4 Days, Five Figures in 30 Days Using No-Code + TikTok
A non-technical founder went from idea to first customer in 4 days and five figures in 30 days using no-code tools and TikTok.
$360K/Jahr·$10K MRR in 1 month·Team
Chrome ExtensionAI / MLVancouver, BC, Canada
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Jack Friks
Cross-Platform Social Media Tool Reaches $7K/Month With Just TikTok Marketing
PostBridge reached $7K/month largely through daily TikTok content creation instead of paid ads.
$462K/Jahr·$1K MRR in 3 months·Solo
SaaSMarketingUnknown
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Chris Mason
From $0 to $1K in Revenue in 30 Days by Validating Before Building
Chris and his co-founder validated demand first by talking to WooCommerce store owners, then built One Click Upsells to $1K in 30 days.
$1K MRR in 1 month·Team
SaaSE-Commerce🇺🇸 US
Pieter Levels
Pieter Levels Builds Photo AI to $150K/Month in Under 3 Years
After Nomad List, Pieter built Photo AI using PHP/jQuery to $150K/month - 87% profit margin, 100% bootstrapped.
$1.6M/Jahr·$100K ARR in 3 years·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🌍 Remote
Andy Cloke
Solo founder bootstraps Airtable API tool to $10K MRR in 2 years
Data Fetcher recently hit $10k MRR. It's still 100% bootstrapped with one full-time team member (me!). Background I studied engineering at unive...
$276K/Jahr·$10K MRR in 2 years·Solo
SaaSEntwickler-Tools🇬🇧 GB
Lukas Böhler
From running an agency to $10K MRR with a bug reporting tool in 1 year
Welcome to our journey! We launched BugBattle (now Gleap) and reached $10,000 in MRR exactly one year later - much longer than we initially thought....
$770K/Jahr·$10K MRR in 1 year·Team
SaaSEntwickler-Tools🇦🇹 AT
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Gourav Goyal
Open-source Notion extension earns $9K+ while staying free to use
Built to solve his own problem with Notion navigation, Gourav kept Notion Boost open-source while still earning $9K+ through premium features.
Erster Kunde in 1 days·Solo
Chrome ExtensionProduktivität🇮🇳 IN
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Thomas Sanlis
After 30 failed projects, French dev builds $10K/mo Product Hunt alternative
Thomas failed 30 projects before Uneed. Six years later, he runs it full-time at $10K/month.
$10K MRR in 6 years·Solo
MarketplaceMarketing🇫🇷 FR
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Kevin Conti
Software Ideas
Paid newsletter to $10K MRR in just 5 months through community engagement
Kevin turned his SaaS research into a newsletter, growing from $0 to $10K MRR in 5 months by building in public on Indie Hackers.
$120K/Jahr·$10K MRR in 5 months·Solo
Info-ProduktBildung🇺🇸 US
Sergiu Chiriac
Solo dev builds AI directory of directories to $10K revenue in one year
Sergiu created a meta-directory listing AI tool directories, reaching $10K revenue by helping AI startups get discovered.
$60K/Jahr·$10K MRR in 1 year·Solo
MarketplaceMarketing🇷🇴 RO
Alex Le
Picture ItAcquired a Shopify app and grew it to $3,500 MRR as a solopreneur
Alex acquired an existing Shopify app and scaled it to $3,500 MRR through product improvements and customer focus.
$1K MRR in 2 years·Solo
SaaSE-Commerce🇺🇸 US
Dagobert Renouf
Left $100K dev job to bootstrap a logo startup with his wife
Dagobert quit his high-paying job to build Logology with his designer wife, growing from $300 to $3K/month using only Twitter.
$1K MRR in 3 years·Team
SaaSDesign🇫🇷 FR
Julien Nahum
Bootstrapped a Notion form builder from $0 to $10K MRR in one year
Julien built NotionForms to solve his own problem, reaching $10K MRR in 12 months through Product Hunt and SEO.
$444K/Jahr·$10K MRR in 1 year·Solo
SaaSProduktivität🇫🇷 FR
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