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Bhanu Teja
24-Year-Old From India Reaches $10K MRR in 1 Month with AI Chatbot
I had around 10,000 Twitter followers and frequently mentioned I would be launching a new AI product soon. I didn't have high expectations. Multi-P...
$10K MRR dans 1 month·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Adrian Horning
Psychology Major Becomes "Web Scraping Guy", Hits $10K MRR
I was a psychology major in college. One day I learned about Uber and decided I wanted to be in tech. So I moved to San Francisco, attended a coding b...
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
API / Outil DéveloppeurAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Yasser Elsaid
College Student Reaches $64K MRR in 6 Months with AI Chatbot Platform
Just a few months ago I was in my 4th year of college, interning at FAANG companies like Meta and Tesla. Then I placed my side hustle in front of the...
$100K ARR dans 4 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Kieran Drew
Dentist Becomes Copywriter, $142K Course Launch While Working 50-60 Hours/Week
Kieran Drew was a dentist working 50-60 hours per week when he decided to build an online business. Premium Pricing He launched High Impact Writ...
$100K ARR dans 6 months·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
David Perell
Writer Launches Online Writing Course, $200K+ from First Two Cohorts
David Perell launched Write of Passage in April 2019 with ~150 students at $600. He ran it with Tiago Forte. Instant Success Even the first coho...
$100K ARR dans 3 months·Équipe
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Dickie Bush
Writer Creates 30-Day Challenge, Grows to 4,000 Students and Millions in Revenue
In December 2020, Dickie Bush tweeted: 'is anyone interested in doing a daily writing challenge for 30 days?' Rapid Validation Around 20 people...
$100K ARR dans 6 months·Équipe
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Sahil Bloom
Private Equity Analyst Builds 800K Newsletter During COVID, $70K/Month
Sahil Bloom was working at a private equity firm when March 2020 hit. Instead of 70+ hour weeks, he was suddenly at home. COVID Opportunity He h...
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationCréation de contenu🇺🇸 US
Lenny Rachitsky
Ex-Airbnb PM Launches Newsletter, $360K ARR in Year One
Lenny Rachitsky launched his newsletter about a year before going paid. When he introduced paid subscriptions, he had 15,000 free subscribers. Pric...
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationCréation de contenu🇺🇸 US
Tyler Denk
Morning Brew Engineer Builds Newsletter Platform to $1M MRR
Tyler Denk joined Morning Brew in 2017 as the second employee, where he led product, growth, and engineering. The Opportunity After building the...
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Erwin Lengkeek
Built Browser Extension in 1 Week, Made $30K/Year Building in Public
Erwin had two failed projects before Tailscan. He gave himself a week to build something and showcase it on Twitter. Viral Demo His demo got 70,...
Premier Client dans 21 days·Solo
Extension ChromeOutils Développeur🇺🇸 US
Sahil Lavingia
From weekend project to $10M+ in creator payouts
I built the first version of Gumroad in a weekend while working at Pinterest. The idea was simple: let anyone sell anything with just a link. The W...
$10K MRR dans 2 months·Solo
MarketplaceE-commerce🇺🇸 US
AJ Ladwal
How I built Carrd to $1M+ ARR as a solo founder
Carrd started as a side project in 2016. I wanted to create the simplest possible way to build one-page websites. The Concept After years of bui...
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSOutils Développeur🇺🇸 US
Damon Chen
Building a $10K MRR testimonial tool by building in public
I built Testimonial.to after experiencing the pain of collecting and displaying customer testimonials for my previous projects. Every founder knows so...
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Justin Welsh
From SVP panic attack to $5M/year solo with 89% profit margin
I was SVP of Sales when I had a panic attack from burnout. I quit to build a solo business. Now I make $5M/year with 89% profit margin and zero ads....
$100K ARR dans 4 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Tony Dinh
How I made $22K in 7 days with a ChatGPT UI tool
On March 1st 2023, OpenAI announced the ChatGPT API. Right on that day, I came up with the idea to create a new UI to solve my own pain points with th...
$10K MRR dans 7 days·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇻🇳 VN
DP
Danny Postma
How I made $100K in 2 weeks with an AI headshot tool
After selling my previous AI company Headlime for seven figures, I took time off in 2021. I was growing increasingly bored when an idea struck me: why...
$100K ARR dans 14 days·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇳🇱 NL
Thibault Louis-Lucas
Shipped 11 products in 4 months, then built $3.5M ARR tool
Before Taplio succeeded, I shipped 11 products in 4 months. The key was speed and willingness to move on from failures. The Shipping Mindset I r...
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Équipe
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Samy Dindane
Built MVP in 3 days, grew to $23K MRR in 2 years
Hypefury started as a weekend project. I built the MVP in 3 days after spotting a gap in Twitter tools. Two years later, we hit $23K MRR and kept grow...
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Jon Yongfook
BannerbearMy 2-year journey to $10K MRR as a solo founder
When I quit my job in January 2019, I had a 2-year runway. For almost 1 year I made no money and burned through my savings. That's because I was doing...
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Solo
API / Outil DéveloppeurOutils Développeur🇯🇵 JP
Joel Gascoigne
From landing page to paying customer in 4 days
I validated Buffer with a landing page before writing any code. Within 4 days of tweeting about it, I had my first paying customer. The Validation...
$100K ARR dans 9 months·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇬🇧 GB
Adam Wathan
From open source to $2M+ with Tailwind UI
We built Tailwind CSS as an open source project, then launched Tailwind UI as a commercial product. The first day made $500K. Building in Open Sour...
$100K ARR dans 1 month·Équipe
SaaSOutils Développeur🇨🇦 CA
ML
Marc Lou
From Paris waiter to $250K in 5 months selling a code boilerplate
My journey took me from being a Paris waiter to an $80,000/month solopreneur over seven years of persistence. After 17 failed projects, I found succes...
$100K ARR dans 5 months·Solo
Produit d'InformationOutils Développeur🇫🇷 FR
Pieter Levels
How I turned a spreadsheet into a $2M+/year business as a solo founder
In 2013, I sold all my possessions, packed a backpack and a laptop, and flew to Thailand to begin my digital nomad life. I was once a lost musician ea...
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
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