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Michael Cameron & Bernie Tschirren
How Two Ex-Microsoft Engineers Built Rome2rio to a $40M Exit
Michael Cameron and Bernie Tschirren built Rome2rio from their parents' living room to 10M+ monthly visitors before selling to Omio.
$100K ARR dans 8 years·Équipe
SaaSVoyage🇦🇺 AU
AZ
Aktarer Zaman
How a 22-Year-Old Built Skiplagged and Beat United Airlines in Court
Aktarer Zaman built Skiplagged at 20, got sued by United Airlines and Orbitz, and won - now helping millions find cheaper flights.
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Solo
SaaSVoyage🇺🇸 US
Varun Khona
How Headout Grew from 0 to $130M Revenue in Under 4 Years
Varun Khona built Headout from a 500 Startups incubation to $130M+ revenue, pioneering the managed experiences model.
$100K ARR dans 4 years·Équipe
MarketplaceVoyage🇺🇸 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.
$100K ARR dans 4 years·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
Eddie Machaalani & Mitchell Harper
From IRC Chat Room to $4.6B IPO: How Two Strangers Built BigCommerce
Eddie Machaalani met his co-founder Mitch Harper in an IRC chat room in 2003, and built BigCommerce to a $4.6B valuation.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSE-commerce🇦🇺 AU
Davis Siksnans & Lauris Liberts
From Garage T-Shirts to Latvia's First Unicorn: The Printful Story
Davis Siksnans started printing t-shirts in his co-founder's garage at age 22 and built Printful to $1B+ valuation.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSE-commerce🇱🇻 LV
Greg Smith
From Law School Side Project to $160M IPO: The Thinkific Story
Greg Smith created an LSAT prep course while in law school, moved back in with his parents, and built Thinkific to a $1.36B market cap.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSCréation de contenu🇨🇦 CA
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Mike Carson
How I built a $125K/month solo business by automating everything
Started as scripts to catch domains for myself. Two years later, $125K/month revenue with zero employees.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Solo
SaaSOutils Développeur🇺🇸 US
Rob Hope
How a South African designer built $100K/year from website curation
Started curating single-page websites in 2008. Cross-promotion between projects grew to $100K+/year.
$10K MRR dans 9 years·Solo
AutreDesign🇿🇦 ZA
VK
Victoria Kurichenko
SEO Blog
SEO Specialist Reaches $1K/Month with Just 89 Blog Posts
Victoria built a WordPress blog with only 89 posts and 15,000 monthly visits to reach $1K/month from affiliate marketing.
$1K MRR dans 9 months·Solo
AutreMarketing🇺🇦 UA
Sumit Bansal
Tech Worker Sees Excel Skills Gap, Builds Blog to 1M+ Visitors and $10K/Month
Sumit saw colleagues struggling with Excel and built TrumpExcel to 1M+ monthly pageviews and $10K/month revenue.
$10K MRR dans 3 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇮🇳 IN
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Mayank Jain
Digital Startup Veterans Build AI Content Platform, $100K MRR in Year One
Mayank and co-founders leveraged 10+ years of digital marketing experience to build Scalenut to $100K MRR in one year.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Équipe
SaaSMarketing🇮🇳 IN
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Chris Mason
From $0 to $1K in Revenue in 30 Days by Validating Before Building
Chris and his co-founder validated demand first by talking to WooCommerce store owners, then built One Click Upsells to $1K in 30 days.
$1K MRR dans 1 month·Équipe
SaaSE-commerce🇺🇸 US
Sergiu Chiriac
Solo dev builds AI directory of directories to $10K revenue in one year
Sergiu created a meta-directory listing AI tool directories, reaching $10K revenue by helping AI startups get discovered.
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
MarketplaceMarketing🇷🇴 RO
Aurelian Amacker
$20M ARR Solo Founder Built All-in-One Marketing Platform
I built Systeme.io to $20M ARR as a solo founder. The platform helps entrepreneurs build sales funnels, email marketing campaigns, and sell digital pr...
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Jordan O'Connor
Solo Dad Builds $42K/Month Chrome Extension with $1/Day Pricing
I'm the self-proclaimed 'winner of Indie Hackers' - if you filter for solo founders with verified Stripe revenue, I come up at the top. Simple Valu...
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Solo
Extension ChromeE-commerce🇺🇸 US
Ramit Sethi
Blogger Waits 2 Years to Launch $4.95 eBook, Now Runs $10M+ Business
Ramit Sethi waited two years before creating his first product, building audience to 50,000 visitors per month first. First Product His first pr...
Premier Client dans 2 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Neuroscientist Launches Mindful Productivity Community, $100K ARR in 22 Months
Anne-Laure Le Cunff sent her first Maker Mind newsletter in July 2019. Ness Labs started as free content and community. Pivot to Paid In the fir...
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Solo
Produit d'InformationCréation de contenu🇺🇸 US
Ryan Holiday
Author Revives Ancient Philosophy with Daily Email to 320K+ Subscribers
Building on the success of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ryan Holiday launched Daily Stoic in 2016. Daily Consistency Each morning, Ryan sends a shor...
$10K MRR dans 3 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationCréation de contenu🇺🇸 US
James Clear
Habits Writer Builds 3M+ Subscriber Newsletter Worth $20M+
James Clear has been writing about habits and continuous improvement since 2012. In year one, his list went from 0 to 30,000 subscribers. Slow Buil...
$10K MRR dans 5 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationCréation de contenu🇺🇸 US
Adam Enfroy
Digital Marketer Launches Blog, Hits $100K/Month in 2 Years
Adam launched AdamEnfroy.com in January 2019 as a side project while working full-time as a Digital Marketing Director. Aggressive Growth He sta...
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Solo
AutreCréation de contenu🇺🇸 US
Pat Flynn
Fired Architect Creates LEED Exam eBook, Builds Multi-Million Dollar Brand
Pat Flynn was fired as an architect in 2008. He launched an ebook about the LEED exam based on his own study materials. The Pivot That first inf...
$10K MRR dans 5 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationCréation de contenu🇺🇸 US
Elie Steinbock
Open Source Email Assistant: Scratch Own Itch to $10K+ MRR
When running a previous business, Elie spent way too much time on email. He thought, 'Why can't an AI do this for me?' First Mover Elie was a fi...
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSProductivité🇺🇸 US
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Elston Baretto
Simple HTML Hosting: 18 Months to First 50 Customers, Now $10K MRR
Elston launched Tiiny Host with a simple hypothesis: there are customers who just want a simple tool to quickly host HTML content. SEO Takes Time...
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSOutils Développeur🇺🇸 US
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