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Nico Jeannen
how nico jeannen grew talknotes from an idea to a $200k exit in a year
Nico Jeannen built TalkNotes after a bad experience with Google Docs transcription, soft-launched it on Twitter, hit number one on Product Hunt, and sold it for $200,000 about a year later.
$1K MRR dans 3 months·Solo
SaaSProductivitéBangkok, Thailand
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
ET
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
Eric Alli
how a solo theme maker stacked productized services to reach $20k mrr
Eric Alli sold themes for over a decade, watched WordPress sales dry up, then rebuilt on Ghost and reached $20k a month, with custom build services making up three quarters of it.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationDesignSan Francisco, USA
JS
Justin Shiels
722 orders in one quarter rebuilding socurious from an austin apartment
Justin Shiels rebuilt his stationery brand SoCurious solo from his Austin apartment, landing 722 orders, 485 preorders from a friend's collab and 38 subscribers in Q1 2026.
$1K MRR dans 10 months·Solo
AutreE-commerceAustin, Texas, USA
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
Hirvesh Munogee
how habit pixel hit $1k mrr in 8 months as a solo app
Hirvesh Munogee built a gamified habit tracker, launched it quietly in May 2025, and reached $1K MRR by January 2026 through purchasing power parity pricing, localization, and seasonal timing.
$1K MRR dans 8 months·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-êtreMauritius
ML
Matthew Lipman
how a designer grew a free SVG tool into a $2k MRR subscription product
Matthew Lipman turned a frustrating gap in SVG tooling into SVGBackgrounds.com, a free resource that a Product Hunt launch pushed from 120 to 16,500 visitors overnight. He added a subscription tier within two months and climbed to $2k+ MRR over eight years.
$1K MRR dans 3 years·Solo
SaaSDesign🇺🇸 US
Robert Janezic
how a product designer made $53k selling two figma files
Robert Janezic spent six months building a Figma UI kit for Tableau dashboards, then sold it as a one-time download. He says two files brought in $53k over 506 days, all in his spare time.
$1K MRR dans 4 months·Solo
Produit d'InformationDesign
TG
Tavishi Gupta
she quit Microsoft to build an ai travel planner and hit 12,000 trips planned
Tavishi Gupta left a salaried job with no backup plan, built Tern from Airbnbs, and grew it to 12,000+ trips planned and paying users in 9 countries with $0 spent on marketing.
$100 MRR dans 2 years·Solo
SaaSVoyageSan Francisco, California
MR
Mathias Robin
how a solo founder built nala with 13 human narrators instead of ai voices
Mathias Robin spent 18 months bootstrapping Nala, a bilingual meditation app, choosing 13 real narrators over synthetic voices and SEO over ads.
Premier Client dans 2 months·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-être🇫🇷 FR
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
Ramish
how ramish reached $32k in his first full year selling framer templates
A designer in Dubai left client work, committed to one model, and turned consistent Framer template launches into $32,908 across 2025 despite a $49 month.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
Produit d'InformationDesignDubai, UAE
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
M
Mehreen
how a marketing employee built a travel blog from $847 to $67k a year
Mehreen made just $847 from her travel blog in year one. By her first full-time year it brought in $67,000 across six income streams. The turning point was learning SEO and email.
$1K MRR dans 2 years·Solo
AutreVoyage
MP
Madhu Pattarambil
how a chemical engineer built a free AI travel planner in 14 days
Madhu Pattarambil, a Sydney chemical engineer with no startup background, shipped a free AI travel app in 17 languages in two weeks, funded entirely by travel affiliate commissions.
Premier Client dans 14 days·Solo
AutreVoyageSydney, Australia
AF
Andrew Fennell
how a recruiter grew standout cv to £40k mrr on seo alone
Andrew Fennell knew nothing about SEO when he launched StandOut CV. A decade of slow, compounding content and careful link building took the CV builder past 23,000 paying customers and £40K MRR with no paid ads.
$100K ARR dans 5 years·Solo
SaaSProductivité🇬🇧 GB
Olly Meakings
how senja reached $1m arr with a viral testimonial loop
Olly Meakings and Wilson Wilson bootstrapped Senja, a testimonial tool, to $1M ARR in under four years, largely on a product-led viral loop and relentless build-in-public reporting.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Équipe
SaaSMarketing🌍 Remote
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