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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.
$10K MRR dans 3 months·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-êtreNorth Macedonia
Petar Georgiev
How PostFast reached €4K MRR by making social scheduling boring and reliable
Petar Georgiev turned his own cross-posting frustration into PostFast, a social scheduling SaaS built around a full-time job that reached about €4K MRR by April 2026.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇧🇬 BG
Farid Shukurov
How Farid turned his slow X growth problem into a $2K MRR AI posting coach
Farid Shukurov struggled to grow on X, studied viral posts manually, then turned that workflow into SupaBird, an AI growth suite that reached $2,057/month mostly through organic channels.
$1K MRR dans 9 months·Solo
SaaSMarketingBerlin, Germany
Tyler Yin
How AIDesigner.ai climbed from under $1K to $9.5K MRR by fixing ugly vibe-coded UI
Tyler Yin spotted that vibe-coded apps often worked but looked bad, then built AIDesigner.ai into a design layer for AI builders that grew from under $1K to $9.5K MRR in 30 days.
$1K MRR dans 1 month·Solo
SaaSDesign🇺🇸 US
VD
Vitalii Dodonov
How Stanley for X hit $4K MRR in 48 hours by bottling a ghostwriter's system
Vitalii Dodonov and the Stanley team turned a 10-day build sprint, a ghostwriter's playbook, and a Product Hunt/X launch into 777 signups and $4K MRR in 48 hours.
$1K MRR dans 2 days·Équipe
SaaSCréation de contenu🇨🇦 CA
Matt Anderson
How Matt Anderson took an AI LinkedIn prospecting agent to $1.1K MRR in 30 days
Matt Anderson did not build ProspectZero around bigger cold lists. He narrowed the wedge to LinkedIn buying signals, dogfooded the agent in public, and reached roughly $1.1K MRR before a churn lesson pulled revenue back near $900.
$1K MRR dans 1 month·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Wilson Wilson
How Ferndesk reached $2K MRR by making help docs update themselves
Wilson Wilson turned stale SaaS help centers into an AI agent workflow and reached $2K MRR after 228 days by compounding weekly product work, customer conversations, and founder-led content.
$1K MRR dans 5 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML
IN
Ilya Novohatskyi
Turning tiny startup exits into a $1K MRR marketplace
After a COVID layoff, Ilya Novohatskyi built Microns on nights and weekends as a micro-startup acquisition marketplace, using no-code tools, Twitter and Product Hunt to reach $1K MRR in one year.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
MarketplaceFinance🇺🇦 UA
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Goutham Jay
From 100 followers to $1K MRR with a testimonial SaaS
Goutham Jay began building Famewall in public in February 2022, won the first paying customer in March, and crossed $1K MRR in September 2023.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇮🇳 IN
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Rob Hallam
how Rob Hallam turned five failed products into SuperX at $23k MRR
After 2.5 years and five products that made $0, Rob Hallam rebuilt his distribution around public X content, partnered on SuperX, and hit $1k MRR on launch day.
$10K MRR dans 6 months·Équipe
SaaSCréation de contenu🌍 Remote
NB
Noah Bragg
how Noah Bragg reached $100 MRR with Supportman before a $27k sale
Noah Bragg built Supportman on nights and weekends for Intercom support teams, needed 7.5 months to reach $100 MRR, then later sold the small SaaS for $27k after it grew to about $400 MRR.
$100 MRR dans 7 months·Solo
SaaSProductivité
Fernando Pessagno
Turning a ten-day build-in-public challenge into a $5K MRR creator tool
Fernando Pessagno built aiCarousels in a 10-day public challenge, got five paying users on launch day, and later grew the AI carousel maker to $5K MRR.
$1K MRR dans 6 months·Solo
SaaSCréation de contenu🇸🇪 SE
Mattias Geniar & Freek Van der Herten
Building website monitoring from two operators' blind spots to $1.5K MRR
Mattias Geniar and Freek Van der Herten turned their developer-plus-sysadmin blind spots into Oh Dear, a website monitoring SaaS that reached more than $1.5K per month within its first production months.
$1K MRR dans 6 months·Équipe
SaaSOutils Développeur🇧🇪 BE
Nicolas Cole & Dickie Bush
how Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush grew Write With AI to $400k a year
A side project to catch the ChatGPT wave became a paid Substack newsletter doing roughly $30k a month, built on quarterly product drops and a founding member tier.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Équipe
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Jack Friks
how jack friks built post bridge to $11k mrr by undercutting bloated schedulers
Tired of paying for overpriced social schedulers, Jack Friks shipped his own simple tool in about a month and built it in public to roughly $11k MRR.
$100K ARR dans 7 months·Solo
SaaSMarketingOshawa, Ontario, Canada
John Rush
how john rush turned an internal seo tool into a $1m arr ai agent
John Rush built SEObot to automate SEO for his own 24 projects, then opened it up and reached roughly $1M ARR within a year of its public launch.
$100K ARR dans 3 months·Équipe
SaaSMarketing🌍 Remote
Hirvesh Munogee
how habit pixel hit $1k mrr in 8 months as a solo app
Hirvesh Munogee built a gamified habit tracker, launched it quietly in May 2025, and reached $1K MRR by January 2026 through purchasing power parity pricing, localization, and seasonal timing.
$1K MRR dans 8 months·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-êtreMauritius
Ramish
how ramish reached $32k in his first full year selling framer templates
A designer in Dubai left client work, committed to one model, and turned consistent Framer template launches into $32,908 across 2025 despite a $49 month.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
Produit d'InformationDesignDubai, UAE
Matt McGarry
how matt mcgarry turned a newsletter into a 7-figure education business
Matt McGarry launched Newsletter Operator in January 2023 with a tweet and a 1,300-follower audience. Within a year and a half it grew past 25,000 subscribers and supported a 7-figure business built on courses and an agency.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Solo
Produit d'InformationCréation de contenu🇺🇸 US
Juanjo Valiño
how juanjo valiño turned a repeated-code problem into a $15k month with wrapfast
After shipping 15+ iOS apps, Juanjo bundled the boring repeated code into a SwiftUI boilerplate called WrapFast, made $750 on day one, and rode a Black Friday surge to his first $15k month.
$10K MRR dans 9 months·Solo
AutreOutils DéveloppeurGalicia, Spain
Katt Risen
how katt risen grew a no-code newsletter to 11,400 subscribers and sold it for $35k
A non-technical generalist from Belgium turned a viral build-in-public tweet into a two-year newsletter that earned about $33k and exited for $35k.
$1K MRR dans 9 months·Solo
Produit d'InformationCréation de contenu🇧🇪 BE
Mattia Pomelli
how sleek.design reached $10k mrr six weeks after launch
Mattia Pomelli and two friends repurposed an earlier design tool into Sleek, an AI mobile app designer, and reached $10k MRR within six weeks of launch without spending on ads.
$10K MRR dans 1 month·Équipe
SaaSDesign🌍 Remote
Gil Hildebrand
how Gil Hildebrand bootstrapped Subscribr to $10k MRR in 100 days
After an unprofitable VC-backed crypto startup, Gil Hildebrand picked a calmer market, presold 50 lifetime deals to a 1,000-person email list, and reached $10k MRR within 100 days of launching Subscribr.
$100K ARR dans 3 months·Solo
SaaSCréation de contenu🇺🇸 US
Josh Pigford
how josh pigford turned down millions, then sold baremetrics for $4m
Josh Pigford built Baremetrics in days to scratch his own itch, grew it past $1.5M ARR, walked away from a deal that collapsed at the finish line, then sold a year later for $4 million in cash.
$100K ARR dans 5 months·Solo
SaaSOutils Développeur🇺🇸 US
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