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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
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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
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Yasha Boroumand
how Yasha Boroumand dogfooded FlowHunt to $10k/mo
After two failed URLSlab attempts, Yasha Boroumand turned FlowHunt into an AI-agent builder, used the product to automate its own SEO engine, and grew to $10k/month with $6k recurring subscriptions plus $4k one-off credits.
Premier Client dans 1 month·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇸🇰 SK
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Alex Rainey & Mike Heap
how My AskAI used $5k pre-sales to reach $14k MRR in months
Alex Rainey and Mike Heap tested My AskAI with a $99 pre-sale before the full product existed, generated about $5k from 50+ buyers, then used Product Hunt, word of mouth, and Google search to reach about $14k MRR by May 2023.
$10K MRR dans 4 months·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇬🇧 GB
Sebastian Volkis
how a nontechnical founder got 11,300 ChatIQ users in his first month
A nontechnical founder used a six-month YouTube audience and a no-code Bubble MVP to launch an AI support chatbot to 11,300 users and roughly £3,500 MRR in 30 days.
$10K MRR dans 2 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇬🇧 GB
David Bressler
how a non-coder built an ai excel tool to $20k in two months
David Bressler spent his paternity leave building an AI Excel formula tool with no-code Bubble, then watched influencers turn it into a fast-growing freemium business.
$100K ARR dans 4 months·Solo
SaaSAI / MLOrlando, Florida
Mohamed Nagm
How Mohamed Nagm turned Reddit pain points into SaasNiche's first $305 MRR
Mohamed Nagm built SaasNiche around one sharp promise: stop guessing what to build by mining Reddit for real customer pain. Founder-message and Stripe-verified sources show it reached roughly $300 MRR with a single Reddit-led channel.
$100 MRR dans 1 month·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇪🇬 EG
Michael Truell
Cursor: From $1M to $100M ARR in 12 Months with Zero Marketing Spend
Four MIT grads spent a year wandering in the desert building CAD tools. When they pivoted to an AI code editor, they built the fastest-growing SaaS product in history.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Anton Osika
Lovable: From a Weekend Side Project to $10M ARR in 60 Days
Anton Osika's weekend hack became the fastest-growing GitHub repo ever. After two failed commercial launches, a rebrand to Lovable hit $10M ARR in 60 days with just 15 people.
$100K ARR dans 2 months·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇸🇪 SE
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Eric Simons
Bolt.new: From Near-Death ($80K ARR) to $40M ARR in 5 Months
Eric Simons spent 7 years building browser-based dev tools at $80K ARR. When Claude 3.5 Sonnet made AI coding viable, a single tweet launched Bolt.new to $4M ARR in 4 weeks.
$100K ARR dans 3 months·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Aravind Srinivas
Perplexity: How Four AI Researchers Built a $200M ARR Google Competitor
Aravind Srinivas left OpenAI to attack "solved" search with AI. Perplexity launched 7 days after ChatGPT and grew to $200M ARR by shipping faster than anyone thought possible.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Varun Mohan
Windsurf: Double Pivot from GPU Infra to a $2.4B AI Code Editor
Varun Mohan killed a profitable GPU business to chase AI coding. After pivoting twice, Windsurf grew from $12M to $100M ARR in 4 months — then Google acquired it for $2.4B.
$100K ARR dans 4 years·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Victor Riparbelli
Synthesia: From Academic AI Research to $4B Video Generation Platform Serving 90% of the Fortune 100
Victor Riparbelli assembled a founding team of two AI professors and one operations co-founder to turn academic video AI research into a $4B enterprise platform with 65,000+ business customers.
$100K ARR dans 7 years·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇬🇧 GB
Demi Guo
Pika: Two Stanford PhD Dropouts Built a $900M AI Video Generator with 500K Discord Members in 4 Months
Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng dropped out of Stanford's AI PhD program after being frustrated with existing AI video tools. They launched Pika on Discord, hit 500K members in 4 months, and raised $135M — all with a team of 13.
$10K MRR dans 10 months·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Noam Shazeer
Character.ai: The Transformer Paper Co-Author Who Left Google to Build a $1B AI Chatbot Platform in 16 Months
Noam Shazeer co-authored "Attention Is All You Need" — the paper that created modern AI. When Google refused to release their chatbot technology, he left to build Character.ai, reaching $1B valuation in 16 months.
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
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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
Paul Yacoubian & Chris Lu
Copy.ai: Building in Public from $0 to $157K MRR in 10 Months
Paul Yacoubian launched Copy.ai on Twitter and grew to $157K MRR in 10 months by building in public and leveraging GPT-3.
$100K ARR dans 10 months·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Mati Staniszewski & Piotr Dąbkowski
ElevenLabs: From Polish High School Friends to $1B+ AI Voice Platform
Mati and Piotr, childhood friends from Poland, built ElevenLabs to fix robotic AI voices and reached 1M users in 5 months after beta launch.
$100K ARR dans 9 months·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Joshua Xu & Wayne Liang
HeyGen: From Snapchat Engineer to 40K Enterprise Customers with AI Video
Joshua Xu left Snapchat to build HeyGen, growing to 40K+ enterprise customers and $35M+ revenue with AI-generated video avatars.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
David Holz
Midjourney: The Bootstrapped AI Art Revolution That Said No to Apple Twice
David Holz bootstrapped Midjourney to profitability within months, building a billion-dollar AI art platform on Discord without VC funding.
$100K ARR dans 2 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Dave Rogenmoser, Chris Hull & JP Morgan
Jasper: From 0 to 100K Customers in Under 2 Years, Unicorn in 18 Months
Dave Rogenmoser launched Conversion.ai and grew to 100K paying customers in under 2 years, reaching unicorn status in 18 months.
$100K ARR dans 2 months·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Cristóbal Valenzuela
Runway: From NYU Research Project to Hollywood's AI Video Tool
Cristóbal Valenzuela started Runway as a NYU research project and grew it into the AI platform behind Oscar-winning films like "Everything Everywhere All at Once."
$100K ARR dans 4 years·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Cody Schneider
From Google Drive folder to $1.1M ARR: How we built Swell AI with degenerate growth tactics
Started with 10 friends uploading MP3s to a Google Drive folder. Now doing $1.1M ARR by cold emailing 100,000 people per month.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
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Prince
21-Year-Old Indian Developer Makes $3.5K in 2 Months Selling AI Chrome Extension Source Code
Prince built Helper-AI and earned $3.5K in 2 months by selling the source code on Gumroad - without a large following.
$1K MRR dans 2 months·Solo
Extension ChromeAI / ML🇮🇳 IN
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