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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
Arthur Yuzbashev
How Arthur turned six Reddit bans into a $6K MRR marketing SaaS
After two failed products and six Reddit bans, Arthur Yuzbashev tracked subreddit behavior in a spreadsheet, turned the pattern into MediaFast, and grew it to roughly $6K MRR with organic distribution.
$1K MRR dans 3 months·Solo
SaaSMarketingBarcelona, Spain
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Antonio Escudero
how Antonio Escudero grew RankInPublic to $17k MRR by turning launches into SEO tournaments
Antonio Escudero built RankInPublic into a free tournament launch platform, then turned the same founder audience into a $17k+ MRR SEO directory-submission business.
Premier Client dans 2 months·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇪🇸 ES
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
Kyan Santiago-Calling
How ToneAdapt turned one guitar demo into a $25K/month app
Kyan Santiago-Calling built ToneAdapt as a fast guitar-tone matching project, then used TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, and relentless short-form demos to reach 100,000+ users and a reported $25K/month revenue run-rate.
Premier Client dans 1 month·Solo
Application MobileÉducation🇺🇸 US
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Adam Knorr & Ben A. Wise
how Adam Knorr and Ben Wise built InfluenceLab to $5.6k MRR by coaching one narrow niche
Adam Knorr turned years of manual LinkedIn editing for financial advisors into InfluenceLab, a $49/month AI coaching SaaS that reached $5,651 MRR from 119 paying users by selling to a niche he already served.
$1K MRR dans 9 days·Équipe
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
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Neel Seth
How Neel Seth turned manual Reddit outreach into ReplyDaddy's $1.5K MRR co-pilot
Neel Seth built ReplyDaddy from his own Reddit distribution problem, kept humans in control of every reply, and turned an AI-assisted MVP into a reported $1.5K MRR product.
Premier Client dans 2 months·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇮🇳 IN
Emanuele Di Pietro
How Emanuele Di Pietro turned a midnight Codex remote into Remodex's $10K first month
Emanuele Di Pietro turned a midnight challenge to control Codex from iPhone into Remodex, a local-first open-source remote that reached about $10K revenue in its first month.
Premier Client dans 1 month·Solo
Application MobileOutils DéveloppeurNaples, Italy
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
Ramsri Goutham Golla
How Questgen.ai became a $4K MRR slow-cooked AI quiz SaaS
Ramsri Goutham Golla turned years of AI question-generation research, Medium posts, GitHub code, and a Udemy course into Questgen.ai, a solo edtech SaaS that reached about $4K MRR without a viral launch.
Premier Client dans 2 years·Solo
SaaSÉducationHyderabad, India
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Kylan O'Connor, Jayden Francis, Justin Rausch & Parker May
How RidePal turned a niche mountain-biking app into 35 paying Android customers on day one
RidePal did not start with a broad fitness app. The team built directly for mountain bikers, shared beta versions in rider communities, and saw 35 paying Android customers on launch day.
Premier Client dans 1 days·Équipe
Application MobileSanté & Bien-êtreSan Francisco, United States
Alex Nguyen
How Feynman AI reached $6K MRR by turning lectures into study workflows
Alex Nguyen built Feynman AI after seeing an international student struggle to follow lectures abroad. A one-month web MVP, fast user feedback, TikTok-style social distribution and App Store search took the solo education app to over $6K MRR in four months.
$1K MRR dans 4 months·Solo
Application MobileÉducationHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam
AC
Abhishek Chakravarty and Davis Baer
How Youform reached $18K MRR by becoming the affordable Typeform alternative
Abhishek Chakravarty spotted Typeform users looking for a cheaper form builder, sold his adjacent chatbot product, and built Youform into an $18K MRR freemium SaaS with pricing people could understand.
Premier Client dans 1 month·Équipe
SaaSProductivitéIndia / USA
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Jason Zigelbaum
How Zigpoll reached $125K MRR by owning Shopify feedback surveys as a solo founder
Jason Zigelbaum turned ecommerce feedback pain into Zigpoll, stayed solo, and compounded to about $125K MRR by doubling down on Shopify merchants, agency operators, pricing fit, and customer-led product requests.
Premier Client dans 7 days·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
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Giacomo "Peldi" Guilizzoni
Selling wireframing software before the official launch
Peldi Guilizzoni launched Balsamiq as a one-person wireframing tool, got a sale before launch, and passed $100K in total revenue in less than five months.
Premier Client dans 0 days·Solo
SaaSDesignBologna, Italy
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Michele Hansen
A side-project API that only needed to cover server costs
Michele and Mathias Hansen launched Geocodio as a side project in January 2014. A roughly $30 first month covered their small DigitalOcean server bill and proved strangers would pay.
Premier Client dans 1 month·Équipe
API / Outil DéveloppeurOutils Développeur🇺🇸 US
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Goutham Jay
From 100 followers to $1K MRR with a testimonial SaaS
Goutham Jay began building Famewall in public in February 2022, won the first paying customer in March, and crossed $1K MRR in September 2023.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇮🇳 IN
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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
Dan Willoughby
How a broken Slack install button turned into $2K MRR
Dan Willoughby left Tellspin as a landing page with a broken Slack install button, then built the MVP only after users hunted down his email. One year later it had 100 customers and $2,033 MRR.
$1K MRR dans 9 months·Solo
SaaSProductivitéUtah, USA
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Chetan
How Chetan grew Schedo to $5K MRR after a $12 first customer
Chetan built Schedo because scheduling tools felt dated, validated it through communities and his own meetings, and turned a local window-cleaning customer paying $12/month into proof that the product could sell.
Premier Client dans 6 months·Solo
SaaSProductivité🇮🇳 IN
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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
AR
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
Fernando Pessagno
Turning a ten-day build-in-public challenge into a $5K MRR creator tool
Fernando Pessagno built aiCarousels in a 10-day public challenge, got five paying users on launch day, and later grew the AI carousel maker to $5K MRR.
$1K MRR dans 6 months·Solo
SaaSCréation de contenu🇸🇪 SE
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
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