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Damon Chen
Building a $10K MRR testimonial tool by building in public
I built Testimonial.to after experiencing the pain of collecting and displaying customer testimonials for my previous projects. Every founder knows so...
$10K MRR en 1 year·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Justin Welsh
From SVP panic attack to $5M/year solo with 89% profit margin
I was SVP of Sales when I had a panic attack from burnout. I quit to build a solo business. Now I make $5M/year with 89% profit margin and zero ads....
$100K ARR en 4 years·Solo
Producto de InformaciónEducación🇺🇸 US
Tony Dinh
How I made $22K in 7 days with a ChatGPT UI tool
On March 1st 2023, OpenAI announced the ChatGPT API. Right on that day, I came up with the idea to create a new UI to solve my own pain points with th...
$10K MRR en 7 days·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇻🇳 VN
DP
Danny Postma
How I made $100K in 2 weeks with an AI headshot tool
After selling my previous AI company Headlime for seven figures, I took time off in 2021. I was growing increasingly bored when an idea struck me: why...
$100K ARR en 14 days·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇳🇱 NL
Thibault Louis-Lucas
Shipped 11 products in 4 months, then built $3.5M ARR tool
Before Taplio succeeded, I shipped 11 products in 4 months. The key was speed and willingness to move on from failures. The Shipping Mindset I r...
$100K ARR en 1 year·Equipo
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Samy Dindane
Built MVP in 3 days, grew to $23K MRR in 2 years
Hypefury started as a weekend project. I built the MVP in 3 days after spotting a gap in Twitter tools. Two years later, we hit $23K MRR and kept grow...
$10K MRR en 2 years·Equipo
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Jon Yongfook
BannerbearMy 2-year journey to $10K MRR as a solo founder
When I quit my job in January 2019, I had a 2-year runway. For almost 1 year I made no money and burned through my savings. That's because I was doing...
$10K MRR en 2 years·Solo
API / Herramienta para DesarrolladoresHerramientas para Desarrolladores🇯🇵 JP
Joel Gascoigne
From landing page to paying customer in 4 days
I validated Buffer with a landing page before writing any code. Within 4 days of tweeting about it, I had my first paying customer. The Validation...
$100K ARR en 9 months·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇬🇧 GB
Adam Wathan
From open source to $2M+ with Tailwind UI
We built Tailwind CSS as an open source project, then launched Tailwind UI as a commercial product. The first day made $500K. Building in Open Sour...
$100K ARR en 1 month·Equipo
SaaSHerramientas para Desarrolladores🇨🇦 CA
ML
Marc Lou
From Paris waiter to $250K in 5 months selling a code boilerplate
My journey took me from being a Paris waiter to an $80,000/month solopreneur over seven years of persistence. After 17 failed projects, I found succes...
$100K ARR en 5 months·Solo
Producto de InformaciónHerramientas para Desarrolladores🇫🇷 FR
Pieter Levels
How I turned a spreadsheet into a $2M+/year business as a solo founder
In 2013, I sold all my possessions, packed a backpack and a laptop, and flew to Thailand to begin my digital nomad life. I was once a lost musician ea...
$10K MRR en 1 year·Solo
SaaSViajes🌍 Remote
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