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Peter Xu & Harry Yu
Twin Brothers Built the Top Trip Planner App After Working at Stripe and Google
Peter and Harry Yu, twin brothers from Yale, built Wanderlog into the top-ranked trip planning app after previous bootstrapped travel ventures and stints at Stripe and Google.
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Équipe
Application MobileVoyage🇺🇸 US
CA
Cody Arsenault
From 5 Failed Stores to $1 Million in Dropshipping Revenue in One Year
After failing multiple dropshipping stores, Cody Arsenault finally cracked the code: proper branding, niche focus, and relentless ad testing led to $1M in his first successful year.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Solo
AutreE-commerce🇨🇦 CA
KS
Kirk Simpson
From Near Bankruptcy to $400M Exit: Building Wave Accounting
Kirk Simpson built Wave from a free accounting tool to a $400M acquisition by H&R Block, surviving being 10 days from bankruptcy along the way.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇨🇦 CA
Waseem Daher, Jeff Arnold & Jessica McKellar
Three-Time Founders Built the Best Bookkeeping Service After Oracle Called Out Their Internal Tool
After two successful exits to Oracle and Dropbox, these MIT friends built Pilot into the largest startup-focused bookkeeping firm by doing all the bookkeeping themselves first.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
Henrique Dubugras & Pedro Franceschi
From YC VR Pivot to Billion-Dollar Fintech: The Brex Story
These 22-year-old Brazilian founders pivoted from VR in Y Combinator to build Brex, solving their own pain of not getting a corporate credit card despite having funding.
$100K ARR dans 6 months·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
Immad Akhund
After Selling Heyzap for $45M, Building a Bank for Startups
Immad Akhund left Google and sold his first startup for $45M before building Mercury, the go-to banking platform for startups valued at $3.5B.
$100K ARR dans 6 months·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
Mike McDerment
From Parents Basement to $50M Revenue: The FreshBooks Story
Mike McDerment accidentally saved over an invoice and built FreshBooks to solve his own pain, bootstrapping for 3.5 years from his parents basement to reach $50M+ in annual revenue.
$10K MRR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇨🇦 CA
Shalom Stark
Growing to 200,000 Users Without Any Marketing: The Invoice Ninja Story
Shalom Stark bootstrapped Invoice Ninja to 200,000+ users through open source, SEO, and word of mouth - without spending on marketing.
$10K MRR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
Justin Jackson & Jon Buda
How We Built a $1M+ ARR Podcast Hosting Business as a Calm Company
Justin Jackson and Jon Buda built Transistor to over $1M ARR while documenting everything publicly on their "Build Your SaaS" podcast.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSCréation de contenu🇨🇦 CA
Justin Duke
Building a Successful Newsletter Business by Building Less
Justin Duke built Buttondown as a side project at Stripe into a profitable business with half a dozen employees - without raising VC.
$10K MRR dans 5 years·Solo
SaaSCréation de contenu🇺🇸 US
Justin Moore
From $5M in Sponsorships to Teaching Creators How to Land Deals
Justin Moore made over $5M in sponsorships himself before building Creator Wizard to help other creators do the same.
$10K MRR dans 3 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationCréation de contenu🇺🇸 US
Samy Dindane & Yannick Veys
From a Tweet to 7-Figure SaaS: The Hypefury Story
Samy Dindane and Yannick Veys scaled Hypefury from a tweet asking about thread scheduling to a 7-figure bootstrapped business.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSCréation de contenu🌍 Remote
Julia Enthoven & Eric Lu
Building a Viral Video Editor with the "Watermark Growth Hack"
Julia Enthoven and Eric Lu bootstrapped Kapwing to 100,000+ users using SEO and the viral watermark strategy.
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSCréation de contenuSan Francisco, CA
YE
Yoni Elbaz & Moran Benisty
Loox
How Two Sears R&D Engineers Built a $15M+ ARR Shopify App
Yoni Elbaz and Moran Benisty met at Sears R&D in Israel and bootstrapped Loox to $15M+ ARR without paying themselves for 15 months.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSE-commerce🇮🇱 IL
Ben Jabbawy
Privy
How Privy Reached 500K Merchants and a $120M Exit
Ben Jabbawy built Privy into the #1 Shopify sales app with 500K+ merchants, driving $6B+ in eCommerce sales before a successful exit.
$100K ARR dans 4 years·Solo
SaaSE-commerce🇺🇸 US
MB
Maxx Blank, AJ Orbach & Ivan Chernykh
Triple Whale
From Internal Tool to $50M+ SaaS: The Triple Whale Story
The Triple Whale founders built an analytics tool for their own DTC brand, then spun it into a 5,000+ customer SaaS with Shopify as an investor.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Équipe
SaaSE-commerce🇺🇸 US
Chris Koh
GemPages
How a Developer Built GemPages to 100K+ Shopify Merchants
Chris Koh spent years working with eSellers before writing the first code for GemPages, a Shopify page builder now used by 100K+ merchants.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Solo
SaaSE-commerce🇻🇳 VN
Andrew Bialecki & Ed Hallen
Klaviyo
How Klaviyo Bootstrapped to $1M ARR Before Raising
Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen bootstrapped Klaviyo to over $1M ARR before raising, eventually building a $6B+ public company.
$100K ARR dans 4 years·Équipe
SaaSE-commerce🇺🇸 US
David Stefanides & Marek Hrabě
How Mockuuups Built a Self-Funded Mockup Empire from Frustration
David and Marek turned their frustration with low-quality mockups into a profitable, self-funded design tool with 5000+ mockups.
$10K MRR dans 8 years·Équipe
SaaSDesign🇨🇿 CZ
Fabrizio Bianchi
How a Weekend Project Became a 3M+ User Color Tool
Fabrizio Bianchi built Coolors in a weekend in 2014, and it grew to 3M+ users through viral simplicity.
$10K MRR dans 4 years·Solo
SaaSDesign🇮🇹 IT
Satya Rajpurohit
How ITF Built a $2M/Year Font Empire for Indian Languages
Satya Rajpurohit co-founded Indian Type Foundry in 2009 and now designs fonts for Apple, Google, Samsung, and 300+ Fortune 500 clients.
$100K ARR dans 10 years·Équipe
SaaSDesign🇮🇳 IN
MC
Michael Cameron & Bernie Tschirren
How Two Ex-Microsoft Engineers Built Rome2rio to a $40M Exit
Michael Cameron and Bernie Tschirren built Rome2rio from their parents' living room to 10M+ monthly visitors before selling to Omio.
$100K ARR dans 8 years·Équipe
SaaSVoyage🇦🇺 AU
Frederic Lalonde
How Hopper Pivoted from Blog Aggregator to $1B+ Travel App
Frederic Lalonde built Hopper through a scary pivot - from travel blog aggregator to AI-powered booking app with $1B+ in sales.
$100K ARR dans 10 years·Équipe
Application MobileVoyage🇨🇦 CA
AZ
Aktarer Zaman
How a 22-Year-Old Built Skiplagged and Beat United Airlines in Court
Aktarer Zaman built Skiplagged at 20, got sued by United Airlines and Orbitz, and won - now helping millions find cheaper flights.
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Solo
SaaSVoyage🇺🇸 US
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