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Adriaan van Rossum
Privacy-First Analytics: From Tenerife Idea to $100K ARR
Adriaan van Rossum came up with the idea for Simple Analytics while on holiday in Tenerife. He wanted to build a privacy-first analytics tool as fast...
$100K ARR in 2 years·Solo
SaaSHerramientas para Desarrolladores🇳🇱 NL
Ivan Zhao
Rebuilt the product 4 times, moved to Japan, now $567M ARR
We rebuilt Notion 4 times before it worked. At one point, we moved to Japan to rewrite the entire tech stack. Now we're at $567M ARR with 30M+ users....
$100K ARR in 8 years·Team
SaaSProductividad🇺🇸 US
Joe Thomas
Near bankruptcy to 10M users after pivoting based on Product Hunt launch
We were near bankruptcy when we launched on Product Hunt. 3,000 signups in 24 hours saved the company. We pivoted from usability tests to video record...
$100K ARR in 4 years·Team
SaaSCreación de Contenido🇺🇸 US
Grant Lee
60K users in 8 months, then 60K more in 1 week after adding AI
Gamma grew steadily to 60K users over about 2.5 years. Then we added AI, and over the following 2.5 years grew to 70M users. Now at $100M ARR. The...
$100K ARR in 6 years·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
AJ
$1K on launch day to $1M ARR with zero marketing spend
Carrd launched on Product Hunt and made $1K on day one. It grew to over $1M ARR with absolutely zero marketing spend. The Launch Product Hunt la...
$100K ARR in 3 years·Solo
SaaSProductividad🇺🇸 US
Justin Jackson
From $33 to $30K MRR in 1 year - achieved 5-year goal in 12 months
Transistor went from our first $33 customer to $30K MRR in just one year. We achieved what we thought would take 5 years. Product Hunt Success W...
$10K MRR in 1 year·Team
SaaSCreación de Contenido🇺🇸 US
Marie Martens
Built a $3M ARR form builder with 800,000+ users and an 8-person team
Tally grew to more than 800,000 creators and $3M ARR with an 8-person team (4 full-time, 4 part-time). The secret? Product-led growth with viral loops...
$100K ARR in 5 years·Team
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
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