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Paul Vengeons, Nicholas Dulait & Léo Leducq
How ChatSEO reached €14K MRR in three months with zero paid ads
Paul Vengeons, Nicholas Dulait, and Léo Leducq turned an SEO coaching relationship into ChatSEO, then used beta calls, founder-led audience, free tools, and personalized organic distribution to reach about €14K MRR in roughly three months.
$10K MRR dans 3 months·Équipe
SaaSMarketingFrance / Belgium
AS
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
Eric Smith
How AutoShorts.ai reached $40K MRR with faceless-video automation
Eric Smith built AutoShorts.ai from a personal need for automated short-form videos, got the first paying subscriber on February 1, and reached $20K MRR by April 27 before the source reported $40K MRR on May 13.
$10K MRR dans 4 months·Solo
SaaSCréation de contenu🇺🇸 US
Matthew Miller
How Matthew Miller livestreamed BridgeMind to $14.8K MRR in 165 days
Matthew Miller turned his vibe-coding livestream into BridgeMind, an agentic development ecosystem that reached about $14.8K MRR by day 165 through public building, community and dogfooding instead of paid acquisition.
$10K MRR dans 6 months·Solo
SaaSOutils Développeur🇺🇸 US
Cedric Roberge
How Cedric Roberge took Pep AI to $60K MRR by turning GLP-1 tracking chaos into a subscription app
Cedric Roberge found a fast-growing GLP-1 and peptide tracking niche, launched Pep AI quickly, then combined Reddit validation with creator-led distribution to reach a reported $60K MRR.
$10K MRR dans 1 month·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
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Sorin Alupoaie
How a solo developer turned Zendesk pain points into a €20K MRR app portfolio
Sorin Alupoaie did not start Swifteq by chasing a giant SaaS idea. He watched Zendesk support teams repeat the same painful workflows, shipped tiny apps around those pains, and grew a portfolio to €20K+ MRR.
$10K MRR dans 4 years·Solo
SaaSProductivitéDublin, Ireland
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Preetam Nath & Sankalp Jonna
How two founders used the Shopify App Store to grow SuperLemon past $25K MRR
Preetam Nath and Sankalp Jonna turned a two-week Shopify App Store MVP into SuperLemon, a WhatsApp commerce tool that passed $25K MRR with 20,000 merchants and a two-person team.
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Équipe
SaaSE-commerceBengaluru, India
Christian Rac & Braylin Byrd
How two Division I track athletes built 3AK Track & Field to verified $10K MRR
Christian Rac and Braylin Byrd turned a 150K-follower track audience into a subscription training app, building with Rork and ChatGPT instead of custom code and later showing $10,045 MRR on TrustMRR.
$10K MRR dans 8 months·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇺🇸 US
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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
RH
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
Cam Trew, Jake Ward, Lara Acosta & Rob Hoffman
Turning an old LinkedIn extension audience into $62K MRR in three months
Cam Trew, Jake Ward, Lara Acosta and Rob Hoffman rebuilt Kleo from an old LinkedIn extension audience into an AI content workflow that reached $62K MRR in three months without ads or Product Hunt.
$10K MRR dans 3 months·Équipe
SaaSMarketing🌍 Remote
Eric Provencher
Giving an AI coding workflow away before turning it into 5-figure MRR
Eric Provencher built Repo Prompt as a free AI coding workflow tool, grew a power-user community, then monetized it into 5-figure MRR within a year of the first tester build.
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSOutils Développeur🇨🇦 CA
Dan Shipper
how dan shipper's newsletter audience funded a $1.2m suite of ai apps
Dan Shipper grew Every from a paid newsletter into four in-house AI products doing about $1.2M ARR, using the audience he built as the launch channel for everything that followed.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSProductivitéNew York, USA
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
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Ethan Tian
how textideo's solo founder reached $18k a month with one ai content editor
Ethan Tian bootstrapped Textideo, an all-in-one AI editor for video, copy, and illustrations, to a self-reported $18,000 a month by listing everywhere, shipping constantly, and letting creators dictate the roadmap.
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSCréation de contenu
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
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
Vasco Monteiro
how Vasco Monteiro grew Journalist AI to $70k mrr with YouTube
After selling his SEO marketplace Vettted, Vasco Monteiro built Journalist AI and grew it past $70k MRR in under a year, with almost all of the growth coming from YouTube.
$10K MRR dans 5 months·Équipe
SaaSCréation de contenuAmersfoort, Netherlands
BE
Berk Elmas
how sketch logo ai reached $8.4k in four months on seo and a product hunt launch
A bootstrapped AI logo tool that hit $8.4k in four months through a Product Hunt launch and a relentless SEO and backlink grind.
$10K MRR dans 6 months·Équipe
SaaSDesign🇹🇷 TR
JB
John Brewton
how john brewton grew a quiet substack into a $200k business in six months
John Brewton spent nine months publishing to barely a thousand readers, then a single proof post timed to a small coaching offer flipped his Substack into a six-stream business on track for $200k.
$10K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
Produit d'InformationCréation de contenu
Elliot Sowersby
the WooCommerce plugin that earned almost nothing for 3 years, then became a full-time business
Elliot Sowersby spent three years building Coupon Affiliates with little to show for it. A decade later it is his biggest source of income and plugins make up over 90% of his revenue.
$10K MRR dans 8 years·Solo
SaaSE-commerceYorkshire, United Kingdom
SK
Sumit Kumar
how Parqet reached 15k MRR in a year by serving only German investors
Sumit Kumar built a portfolio tracker to scratch his own itch, then kept it deliberately narrow: one country, one language, one currency. That focus took Parqet to €15k MRR in its first year.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSFinanceHamburg, Germany
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
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