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Arthur Yuzbashev
How Arthur turned six Reddit bans into a $6K MRR marketing SaaS
After two failed products and six Reddit bans, Arthur Yuzbashev tracked subreddit behavior in a spreadsheet, turned the pattern into MediaFast, and grew it to roughly $6K MRR with organic distribution.
$1K MRR dans 3 months·Solo
SaaSMarketingBarcelona, Spain
Anatoly Pashias & Nick Nicolaou
How Motionvid.ai used a 21-day MVP and AppSumo launch to reach $7.8K MRR
Anatoly Pashias and Nick Nicolaou built Motionvid.ai from a filmmaker's motion-design bottleneck, launched a 21-day MVP through AppSumo, and grew the AI video tool to about $7.8K MRR without relying on paid ads.
$1K MRR dans 8 months·Équipe
SaaSCréation de contenuLimassol, Cyprus
Giulio Greco
How a 17-year-old founder took ForgeGUI to $100K ARR by serving game developers' UI bottleneck
Giulio Greco focused ForgeGUI on the game-developer asset bottleneck, then used demos and community loops to reach a reported $100K ARR roughly six weeks after launch.
$100K ARR dans 1 month·Solo
SaaSDesign🇺🇸 US
NS
Neel Seth
How Neel Seth turned manual Reddit outreach into ReplyDaddy's $1.5K MRR co-pilot
Neel Seth built ReplyDaddy from his own Reddit distribution problem, kept humans in control of every reply, and turned an AI-assisted MVP into a reported $1.5K MRR product.
Premier Client dans 2 months·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇮🇳 IN
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.
$10K MRR dans 8 months·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
Josh (hellwaiver)
How Josh turned a forgotten cover-letter side project into JobBuddy's $1K MRR
Josh launched JobBuddy as a free Reddit side project for cover letters, forgot about it for months, then turned 700 organic users into a freemium AI job-search SaaS at about $1K MRR.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSProductivité🇬🇧 GB
Victor Bigfield
How RedditGrow.ai reached $500 MRR by making Reddit outreach safer and more human
Victor Bigfield turned five years of manual Reddit customer-finding into RedditGrow.ai, then crossed $500 MRR in about 30 days after replacing vague AI positioning with a concrete demo and human review workflow.
$100 MRR dans 1 month·Solo
SaaSMarketing🌍 Remote
KO
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
MJ
Mun Jun (Edmund) Yong
How Easy Folders reached $3.7K MRR by organizing ChatGPT and Claude chaos
Edmund Yong turned his own overflowing ChatGPT sidebar into Easy Folders, a Chrome extension that added folders, search and prompt management before native AI-chat organization caught up.
$1K MRR dans 6 months·Solo
Extension ChromeProductivité🌍 Remote
Adrien (AdrienBrb)
How PostClaw reached $250 MRR by replacing a free trial with a hard paywall
Adrien turned PostClaw's early signups from curious free-trial tourists into paying users by cutting the free trial, adding a $17 entry plan, and showing up across founder communities every week.
$100 MRR dans 28 days·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇫🇷 FR
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Giacomo "Peldi" Guilizzoni
Selling wireframing software before the official launch
Peldi Guilizzoni launched Balsamiq as a one-person wireframing tool, got a sale before launch, and passed $100K in total revenue in less than five months.
Premier Client dans 0 days·Solo
SaaSDesignBologna, Italy
MH
Michele Hansen
A side-project API that only needed to cover server costs
Michele and Mathias Hansen launched Geocodio as a side project in January 2014. A roughly $30 first month covered their small DigitalOcean server bill and proved strangers would pay.
Premier Client dans 1 month·Équipe
API / Outil DéveloppeurOutils Développeur🇺🇸 US
JM
Justus Mulli
Three fast AI launches, then $1K MRR with SQL for data teams
Justus Mulli shipped BlazeSQL after two abandoned AI products, won the first subscriber two months after launch, and crossed $1K MRR within about six months.
$1K MRR dans 6 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇩🇪 DE
TN
Tim Nolet
How Tim Nolet grew Checkly to about $1K MRR by rewarding early adopters
Tim Nolet built Checkly part-time, used a private beta plus open-source Puppeteer Recorder to reach developers, and crossed roughly $1,100 MRR by pairing technical content with early-adopter discounts.
$1K MRR dans 6 months·Solo
SaaSOutils DéveloppeurBerlin, Germany
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Chetan
How Chetan grew Schedo to $5K MRR after a $12 first customer
Chetan built Schedo because scheduling tools felt dated, validated it through communities and his own meetings, and turned a local window-cleaning customer paying $12/month into proof that the product could sell.
Premier Client dans 6 months·Solo
SaaSProductivité🇮🇳 IN
PH
Peter Hrbacik
how Peter Hrbacik turned KWFinder into a $223k/mo SEO suite
After years of failed prototypes and freelance work, Peter Hrbacik built KWFinder in about a month, launched it to Hacker News and Reddit, and grew the simple SEO tool into Mangools, a bootstrapped suite reporting roughly $223k/month by 2018.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Équipe
SaaSMarketing🇸🇰 SK
Eric Provencher
Giving an AI coding workflow away before turning it into 5-figure MRR
Eric Provencher built Repo Prompt as a free AI coding workflow tool, grew a power-user community, then monetized it into 5-figure MRR within a year of the first tester build.
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSOutils Développeur🇨🇦 CA
ET
Ethan Tian
how textideo's solo founder reached $18k a month with one ai content editor
Ethan Tian bootstrapped Textideo, an all-in-one AI editor for video, copy, and illustrations, to a self-reported $18,000 a month by listing everywhere, shipping constantly, and letting creators dictate the roadmap.
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSCréation de contenu
Robert Janezic
how a product designer made $53k selling two figma files
Robert Janezic spent six months building a Figma UI kit for Tableau dashboards, then sold it as a one-time download. He says two files brought in $53k over 506 days, all in his spare time.
$1K MRR dans 4 months·Solo
Produit d'InformationDesign
TG
Tavishi Gupta
she quit Microsoft to build an ai travel planner and hit 12,000 trips planned
Tavishi Gupta left a salaried job with no backup plan, built Tern from Airbnbs, and grew it to 12,000+ trips planned and paying users in 9 countries with $0 spent on marketing.
$100 MRR dans 2 years·Solo
SaaSVoyageSan Francisco, California
MP
Madhu Pattarambil
how a chemical engineer built a free AI travel planner in 14 days
Madhu Pattarambil, a Sydney chemical engineer with no startup background, shipped a free AI travel app in 17 languages in two weeks, funded entirely by travel affiliate commissions.
Premier Client dans 14 days·Solo
AutreVoyageSydney, Australia
ML
Michael Lynch
how michael lynch bootstrapped tinypilot to nearly $1m and sold it for $598k
After two money-losing years out of Google, Michael Lynch built TinyPilot in his third year as an indie founder, grew it to roughly $1M in annual sales, and sold it for $598,000.
$100K ARR dans 6 months·Solo
AutreOutils DéveloppeurWestern Massachusetts, USA
Alexander Belogubov
how Refgrow reached its first 33 paying customers without a viral moment
Alexander Belogubov spent about nine months building Refgrow, an affiliate program tool for SaaS, then pieced together his first 33 paying customers through affiliates, niche Facebook groups, and repeat Product Hunt launches.
$1K MRR dans 6 months·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇺🇦 UA
RW
Richard Wang
how richard reached 30k mrr with a reddit marketing tool
After shutting down an AI product nobody wanted, Richard Wang spent a month answering Reddit marketing questions, gathered 300 people who shared the same pain, and only then built Leadmore AI. More than ten of them paid in week one.
$100K ARR dans 3 months·Solo
SaaSMarketing
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