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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.
$10K MRR in 1 month·Team
Extensión de ChromeAI / MLUnknown
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.
$100K ARR in 3 years·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🌍 Remote
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Dan Kulkov, Sveta Bay
Couple Makes $60K Helping Solopreneurs with AI Marketing Wrapper
My co-founder and I built FounderPal.ai, an AI marketing strategy tool for solopreneurs. The initial version only incurred a monthly cost of $150....
$10K MRR in 6 months·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Aditya
Glow AI
Skincare AI App Reaches $10K MRR in 2 Days Using TikTok Influencers
Glow AI launched on November 7th, reached $10K MRR by November 9th, and accumulated 32,000 downloads in just 3 days. Influencer Equity Strategy...
$10K MRR in 2 days·Team
App MóvilAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Dustin W. Stout
From Zero to $20K MRR in 163 Days with All-in-One AI Tool
After following the BuildInPublic journey of many indie makers, I decided this was the approach I was going to take. Slow and Steady I didn't w...
$10K MRR in 5 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Bhanu Teja
24-Year-Old From India Reaches $10K MRR in 1 Month with AI Chatbot
I had around 10,000 Twitter followers and frequently mentioned I would be launching a new AI product soon. I didn't have high expectations. Multi-P...
$10K MRR in 1 month·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Adrian Horning
Psychology Major Becomes "Web Scraping Guy", Hits $10K MRR
I was a psychology major in college. One day I learned about Uber and decided I wanted to be in tech. So I moved to San Francisco, attended a coding b...
$10K MRR in 1 year·Solo
API / Herramienta para DesarrolladoresAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Yasser Elsaid
College Student Reaches $64K MRR in 6 Months with AI Chatbot Platform
Just a few months ago I was in my 4th year of college, interning at FAANG companies like Meta and Tesla. Then I placed my side hustle in front of the...
$100K ARR in 4 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
JB
Josef Büttgen
12x12 Challenge: From Dwindling Runway to $10K MRR in 14 Months
Josef taught himself to code at age 13. He freelanced until he saved enough runway to commit to entrepreneurship. The Challenge His first produc...
$10K MRR in 1 year·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Snow Lee
3x Founder Pivots from DevOps AI to Communication Tool, Hits $400K ARR
Snow Lee is a 3x founder from South Korea who moved his family to California. He received $660K in pre-seed funding. The Pivot First version was...
$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
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Alex Belogubov
From Failed Launch to $10K MRR and 6-Figure Exit
Alex initially launched Replyze in October 2023 on Product Hunt, but it was unsuccessful. Ready to sell for $20-25K, he received an interesting offer....
$10K MRR in 8 months·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
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Mustafa Ergisi
Data Analyst Builds AI2SQL to $1K MRR in 15 Months
Mustafa Ergisi, a former data analyst from Istanbul, was frustrated spending countless hours optimizing SQL queries manually. With a background in mac...
$1K MRR in 1 year·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 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
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 in 4 days·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇻🇳 VN
Ricardo Ghekiere
Acquired at $1,500/mo, scaled to $274K/month with paid ads
We acquired Betterpic when it was doing $1,500/month. Through multi-channel paid advertising, we scaled it to $274K/month. The Acquisition Buyin...
$10K MRR in 7 months·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
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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 in 14 days·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇳🇱 NL
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