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Dylan Field & Evan Wallace
How Two College Friends Bet Everything on the Browser and Built a $20B Design Tool
Dylan Field and Evan Wallace launched Figma in 2016 after betting that web technology would eventually replace desktop apps.
$100K ARR dans 4 years·Équipe
SaaSDesign🇺🇸 US
Clark Valberg & Ben Nadel
From Agency Side Project to Every Fortune 100 Company: The InVision Story
Clark Valberg built InVision as an internal tool for his agency, then watched it become used by every Fortune 100 company.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSDesign🇺🇸 US
Pieter Omvlee
Nine Years of Side Project to Design Tool That Challenged Adobe: The Sketch Story
Pieter Omvlee started Sketch in college, took 9 years to ship it, and built the tool that dethroned Photoshop for UI design.
$100K ARR dans 9 years·Solo
SaaSDesign🇳🇱 NL
Vlad Magdalin
From Freelancer to $4B Founder: The Webflow Story
Vlad Magdalin started as a freelance web designer, frustrated with the gap between design and code. After two failed startups, he built Webflow into a $4B company.
$100K ARR dans 4 years·Équipe
SaaSDesign🇺🇸 US
Koen Bok
From Facebook Exit to $2B Design Tool: The Framer Story
Koen Bok sold his first company Sofa to Facebook, then built Framer from a JavaScript library into a $2B AI-powered website builder.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSDesign🇳🇱 NL
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
Spencer Fry
How a bootstrapped portfolio platform grew to $55K MRR and a life-changing exit
Built the first online portfolio platform for designers in 2005. Bootstrapped to $55K MRR, then sold to private equity.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSDesign🇺🇸 US
MD
Morflax Developer
3D Device Mockup Builder Generates $7K in First Month With Viral Tweet
Morflax launched with a viral tweet about the 3D mockup builder and generated $7K revenue in the first month.
$1K MRR dans 1 month·Solo
SaaSDesignUnknown
Dagobert Renouf
Left $100K dev job to bootstrap a logo startup with his wife
Dagobert quit his high-paying job to build Logology with his designer wife, growing from $300 to $3K/month using only Twitter.
$1K MRR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSDesign🇫🇷 FR
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Roman Sevast
From Crushing VC Rejection to YC: Designer Marketplace $100K ARR in 3 Months
Roman struggled to find the right designer while working on a previous startup. They launched Awesomic with a simple Facebook post. Fast Validation...
$100K ARR dans 3 months·Équipe
MarketplaceDesign🇺🇸 US
Robin Vander Heyden
ManyPixels
Unlimited Design for $359/Month: Productized Service to $60K MRR
Robin didn't have a job and decided to launch a productized service offering unlimited design work for a fixed fee per month. Rapid Growth He gr...
$100K ARR dans 4 months·Solo
Agence / ServiceDesign🇺🇸 US
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