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Avg Time
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Eran Galperin
After failed VC startup, bootstrapped gym software to $3M ARR and 8-figure exit
After a failed VC-backed startup, I bootstrapped Gymdesk while working a day job. 4 years to $12K MRR, then accelerated to $3M ARR. Learning from F...
vendue pour $32.5M·$100K ARR dans 8 years·Solo
SaaSSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
Alex Tew
From Million Dollar Homepage to $2B Meditation Empire
Alex Tew started meditating as a teenager, built the viral Million Dollar Homepage, then channeled that success into co-founding Calm.
$227M/an·$10K MRR dans 1 year·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
Andy Puddicombe
Buddhist Monk Builds $250M+ Meditation App Empire
Andy Puddicombe spent 10 years as a Buddhist monk, then co-founded Headspace with Rich Pierson to bring meditation to millions.
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇬🇧 GB
Martin Moravek
Software Engineer Builds $20K MRR App to Fight His Own Phone Addiction
After nearly a decade in automotive/aerospace, Martin Moravek built Minimalist Phone to solve his own screen addiction problem.
$240K/an·$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇩🇪 DE
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Ania Wysocka
How I Built a 2M+ User Anxiety App With Zero Employees
Ania started having panic attacks in her final year of university. She built the app she wished existed.
$1.2M/an·$100K ARR dans 5 years·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇨🇦 CA
Joseph Mambwe
GymStreak
How I Bootstrapped a $2.5M/Year Fitness App With Zero Employees
Joseph taught himself to code while at Cambridge and built a fitness app empire with just contractors.
$2.5M/an·$100K ARR dans 3 years·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇬🇧 GB
Guillem Ros & Desmond McNamee
Hevy: 10M+ Downloads With Just $15K in Ad Spend
Guillem and Desmond built a Strava for weightlifting that grew almost entirely through word of mouth.
$1.9M/an·$100K ARR dans 4 years·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🌍 Remote
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Mike Lee
MyFitnessPal: From Personal Diet Tracker to $475M Acquisition
Mike Lee built a calorie counter to lose weight for his wedding, then bootstrapped it to 80M+ users.
vendue pour $475M·$100K ARR dans 7 years·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
Steve Kamb
Nerd Fitness: Building a 7-Figure Business for Fitness Misfits
Steve Kamb turned his nerdy approach to fitness into a 7-figure business, starting from around 3,500 email subscribers near his first $10K MRR milestone.
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
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Aaron Davidson
Cronometer: A Nerdy Side Project That Became the Most Accurate Nutrition Tracker
Aaron Davidson built Cronometer as a personal tool for CRON dieting, now used by millions for precise nutrition tracking.
$3.8M/an·$10K MRR dans 10 years·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇨🇦 CA
Kayla Itsines & Tobi Pearce
From Training Women in Parents Backyard to a $400M Fitness Empire
Kayla Itsines started at 18 training women in her parents backyard in Adelaide, created a PDF workout guide that went viral on Instagram, and sold her Sweat app for $400M.
$100M/an·$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇦🇺 AU
Cassey Ho
How a Farewell YouTube Video for 40 Students Became a Multi-Million Dollar Fitness Empire
Cassey Ho posted one Pilates video for her 40 students before moving cross-country. It accidentally became the #1 female fitness channel on YouTube with 500M+ views.
$20M/an·Premier Client dans 2 years·Solo
AutreSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
Andy Puddicombe & Richard Pierson
From Buddhist Monk to $3B Meditation Empire: The Headspace Story
Andy Puddicombe spent 10 years as a Buddhist monk before co-founding Headspace, now valued at over $3 billion.
$348.4M/an·$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇬🇧 GB
Saeju Jeong & Artem Petakov
800 Rejections, 8 Years No Revenue, Then a $3.7B Valuation: The Noom Story
Saeju Jeong pitched 800+ times over 4 years with zero funding before building Noom to $3.7B valuation.
$600M/an·$100K ARR dans 8 years·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
Alex Tew & Michael Acton Smith
From Million Dollar Homepage to $2B Meditation App: The Calm Story
Alex Tew, creator of the Million Dollar Homepage, teamed up with Michael Acton Smith to build Calm to $2B valuation.
$210M/an·$100K ARR dans 4 years·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
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Dr. John Berardi
The Launch That Made $140K in One Week — Then Almost Bankrupted Them
Dr. John Berardi launched Precision Nutrition to a 30,000-person newsletter. They made $500,000 in six months. Then their payment processor froze every dollar. This is the story of how they survived.
$100K ARR dans 1 month·Équipe
Produit d'InformationSanté & Bien-être🇨🇦 CA
Hirvesh Munogee
how habit pixel hit $1k mrr in about 9 months as a solo app
Hirvesh Munogee built a gamified habit tracker, launched it quietly in March 2025, and reached $1K MRR by January 2026 through purchasing power parity pricing, localization, and seasonal timing.
$12K/an·$1K MRR dans 9 months·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-êtreMauritius
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Mathias Robin
how a solo founder built nala with 13 human narrators instead of ai voices
Mathias Robin spent 18 months bootstrapping Nala, a bilingual meditation app, choosing 13 specialist narrators over one generic catalogue and SEO over ads.
Premier Client dans 2 months·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇫🇷 FR
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Shaun Donnelly
how a london indie dev grew a workout app to $3,630 mrr
Shaun Donnelly started Personal Best as a hobby and turned it into a full-time iOS app with 500,000+ downloads and $3,630 in monthly recurring revenue by the end of 2025.
$44K/an·$1K MRR dans 4 years·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-êtreLondon, United Kingdom
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Angel Stoevski & Mihael Borchevski
How Footly reached $10K MRR in 90 days with an AI soccer coach
Angel Stoevski and co-founder Mihael Borchevski built Footly around a specific athlete pain: players could record training clips, but they lacked objective feedback and personalized practice plans. The app crossed $10K MRR by its third month.
$120K/an·$10K MRR dans 1 month·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-êtreNorth Macedonia
Cedric Roberge
How Cedric Roberge took Pep AI to $60K MRR by turning GLP-1 tracking chaos into a subscription app
Cedric Roberge found a fast-growing GLP-1 and peptide tracking niche, launched Pep AI quickly, then combined Reddit validation with creator-led distribution to reach a reported $60K MRR.
$720K/an·$10K MRR dans 1 month·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
Christian Rac & Braylin Byrd
How two Division I track athletes built 3AK Track & Field to verified $10K MRR
Christian Rac and Braylin Byrd turned a 150K-follower track audience into a subscription training app, building with Rork and ChatGPT instead of custom code and later showing $10,045 MRR on TrustMRR.
$121K/an·$10K MRR dans 8 months·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
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Kylan O'Connor, Jayden Francis, Justin Rausch & Parker May
How RidePal turned a niche mountain-biking app into 35 paying Android customers on day one
RidePal did not start with a broad fitness app. The team built directly for mountain bikers, shared beta versions in rider communities, and saw 35 paying Android customers on launch day.
Premier Client dans 1 days·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-êtreSan Francisco, United States
Ivan Terekhin
How Sober Tracker crossed $500 MRR with privacy-first ASO
Ivan Terekhin built Sober Tracker after wanting a private, account-free way to track alcohol-free days. A plain search-intent name, simple mobile workflow and subscription switch made the app the lead earner in his indie mobile portfolio.
$6K/an·$100 MRR dans 1 year·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-êtreTbilisi, Georgia
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Cedric Isubol
Fourteen paying users in two weeks, from Facebook groups alone
Cedric Isubol built an AI calorie tracker for the home cooked local food that western nutrition databases do not recognize. Two weeks after the Google Play launch it had 14 paying subscribers and $35 in monthly recurring revenue, with no ad spend and one marketing channel.
$720/an·Premier Client dans 14 days·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇵🇭 PH
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Dom Maskell
Dom Maskell sold 1,500 PDF running plans before Runna was an app
Ben Parker and Dom Maskell quit their jobs in June 2021 to sell personalised running plans as emailed PDFs. The app came eighteen months later, and Strava bought the company in April 2025.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇬🇧 GB
Julian Hearn
Two orders on day one: how Julian Hearn started Huel from his garage
Huel's website went live with no buzz at all and took two orders on the first day. Julian Hearn packed them himself, and says revenue reached £9 million two years later.
$103M/an·Premier Client dans 1 days·Équipe
AutreSanté & Bien-être🇬🇧 GB
Matteo Franceschetti
Eight Sleep hit its $100,000 goal in under 11 hours, then spent a year learning to manufacture
Matteo Franceschetti and three co-founders put a sleep tracking mattress cover on Indiegogo on 27 January 2015. The $100,000 goal was met the same day, and the campaign closed at $1,231,729 from 5,202 backers.
$100K ARR dans 4 months·Équipe
AutreSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
Sam Corcos
How Levels Health went from a $389 beta to a $12,482 month in 158 days
Sam Corcos publishes Levels Health's monthly investor updates in public, so the early revenue line can be read directly instead of reconstructed. It runs $6,774, $4,507, $7,221, $12,482.
$21.1M/an·$10K MRR dans 5 months·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
Will Ahmed
Will Ahmed spent three years building WHOOP before its first hundred users
Will Ahmed asked athletes what they wanted and heard one thing, asked what their problems were and heard another, then spent three years building for the second answer.
Premier Client dans 3 years·Équipe
AutreSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
Zach Yadegari
Cal AI went from a high school classroom to nearly $300k a month in 98 days
Zach Yadegari announced Cal AI on Product Hunt in April 2024 as a 17 year old high school junior. Ninety eight days later he reported nearly $300,000 in monthly revenue, and in March 2026 MyFitnessPal bought the app.
$50M/an·$100K ARR dans 3 months·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
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