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Peter Xu
Twin Brothers Build Top-Ranked Travel Planning App
Peter Xu and Harry Yu (twin brothers) leveraged their Stripe and Google experience to build Wanderlog, now top-ranked for travel planning.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Équipe
SaaSVoyage🇺🇸 US
Abraham Burak
Digital Nomad Builds $1B eSIM Marketplace to Solve Travel Connectivity
Abraham Burak experienced roaming bill shocks as a digital nomad, then built Airalo - now valued at $1B+ with 20M+ users.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Équipe
MarketplaceVoyage🇺🇸 US
Christopher Gimmer
Christopher Gimmer Built Snappa to $1.5M ARR with Content-First Strategy
Chris and Marc built an audience with a viral blog post on free stock photos, then leveraged it to launch Snappa and reach $10K MRR in 5 months.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSDesign🇨🇦 CA
DP
Danny Postma
Danny Postma: From 7-Figure Headlime Exit to Building HeadshotPro
After selling his AI writing tool Headlime for 7 figures in 8 months, Danny Postma built HeadshotPro - now serving 196,000+ customers.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇳🇱 NL
AW
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.
$100K ARR dans 5 years·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇨🇦 CA
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 with 300K+ email subscribers.
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
AD
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.
$10K MRR dans 12 years·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇨🇦 CA
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Bernie Tschirren & Michael Cameron
Rome2Rio: From Side Project to $40M Exit by Solving "How Do I Get There?"
Two ex-Microsoft engineers built the definitive travel search for getting from A to B anywhere in the world.
$10K MRR dans 4 years·Équipe
SaaSVoyage🇦🇺 AU
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Erikas Malisauskas
Kaching Bundle Quantity Breaks
Building a $4.5M/Year Shopify App Portfolio with $0 Marketing
Erikas Malisauskas quit freelancing and built 5 Shopify apps generating $4.5M annually without any paid marketing.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Solo
SaaSE-commerce🇱🇹 LT
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Gareth Williams, Barry Smith & Bonamy Grimes
Skyscanner: From Ski Trip Frustration to £1.4 Billion Exit
Three friends frustrated by expensive ski flights built Skyscanner on the side, bootstrapped it to £1,000/day, then sold for £1.4 billion.
$100K ARR dans 5 years·Équipe
SaaSVoyage🇬🇧 GB
Rick Perreault
Unbounce: From Agency Frustration to $100K MRR Without a Sales Team
Rick Perreault solved his own pain as a creative director - waiting on developers for landing pages - and built Unbounce to $100K+ MRR without a sales team.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSMarketing🇨🇦 CA
Peter Xu & Harry Yu
Twin Brothers Built the Top Trip Planner App After Working at Stripe and Google
Peter and Harry Yu, twin brothers from Yale, built Wanderlog into the top-ranked trip planning app after previous bootstrapped travel ventures and stints at Stripe and Google.
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Équipe
Application MobileVoyage🇺🇸 US
Shalom Stark
Growing to 200,000 Users Without Any Marketing: The Invoice Ninja Story
Shalom Stark bootstrapped Invoice Ninja to 200,000+ users through open source, SEO, and word of mouth - without spending on marketing.
$10K MRR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
Julia Enthoven & Eric Lu
Building a Viral Video Editor with the "Watermark Growth Hack"
Julia Enthoven and Eric Lu bootstrapped Kapwing to 100,000+ users using SEO and the viral watermark strategy.
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSCréation de contenuSan Francisco, CA
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Yoni Elbaz & Moran Benisty
Loox
How Two Sears R&D Engineers Built a $15M+ ARR Shopify App
Yoni Elbaz and Moran Benisty met at Sears R&D in Israel and bootstrapped Loox to $15M+ ARR without paying themselves for 15 months.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSE-commerce🇮🇱 IL
Chris Koh
GemPages
How a Developer Built GemPages to 100K+ Shopify Merchants
Chris Koh spent years working with eSellers before writing the first code for GemPages, a Shopify page builder now used by 100K+ merchants.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Solo
SaaSE-commerce🇻🇳 VN
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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
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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
MC
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
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