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Victor Bigfield
How RedditGrow.ai reached $500 MRR by making Reddit outreach safer and more human
Victor Bigfield turned five years of manual Reddit customer-finding into RedditGrow.ai, then crossed $500 MRR in about 30 days after replacing vague AI positioning with a concrete demo and human review workflow.
$100 MRR dans 1 month·Solo
SaaSMarketing🌍 Remote
KO
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
Ivan Terekhin
How Sober Tracker crossed $500 MRR with privacy-first ASO
Ivan Terekhin built Sober Tracker after wanting a private, account-free way to track alcohol-free days. A plain search-intent name, simple mobile workflow and subscription switch made the app the lead earner in his indie mobile portfolio.
$100 MRR dans 1 year·Solo
Application MobileSanté & Bien-êtreTbilisi, Georgia
Santanu Dasgupta
How Meerkats AI reached $3K MRR in 4 weeks by selling agentic GTM work
Santanu Dasgupta turned two decades of GTM pain into Meerkats AI, an agentic marketing platform that found early customers through agency outreach, education and LinkedIn posts instead of a broad launch.
$1K MRR dans 28 days·Équipe
SaaSMarketingBengaluru, India
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Mun Jun (Edmund) Yong
How Easy Folders reached $3.7K MRR by organizing ChatGPT and Claude chaos
Edmund Yong turned his own overflowing ChatGPT sidebar into Easy Folders, a Chrome extension that added folders, search and prompt management before native AI-chat organization caught up.
$1K MRR dans 6 months·Solo
Extension ChromeProductivité🌍 Remote
Wilson Wilson
How Ferndesk reached $2K MRR by making help docs update themselves
Wilson Wilson turned stale SaaS help centers into an AI agent workflow and reached $2K MRR after 228 days by compounding weekly product work, customer conversations, and founder-led content.
$1K MRR dans 5 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML
Adrien (AdrienBrb)
How PostClaw reached $250 MRR by replacing a free trial with a hard paywall
Adrien turned PostClaw's early signups from curious free-trial tourists into paying users by cutting the free trial, adding a $17 entry plan, and showing up across founder communities every week.
$100 MRR dans 28 days·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇫🇷 FR
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
Mohd Danish Yusuf
How NoCodeAPI reached $5K MRR by removing backend setup from no-code workflows
Mohd Danish Yusuf turned his own repeated API-integration pain into NoCodeAPI, grew it to $2K MRR in its launch year, then reached $5K MRR before a six-figure acquisition.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
API / Outil DéveloppeurOutils Développeur🇮🇳 IN
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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
IN
Ilya Novohatskyi
Turning tiny startup exits into a $1K MRR marketplace
After a COVID layoff, Ilya Novohatskyi built Microns on nights and weekends as a micro-startup acquisition marketplace, using no-code tools, Twitter and Product Hunt to reach $1K MRR in one year.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
MarketplaceFinance🇺🇦 UA
Andris Reinman
Turning open-source email infrastructure into $1K MRR
Andris Reinman built EmailEngine from a hard-won IMAP problem, got more than 1,000 GitHub stars before revenue worked, and reached $1K MRR in July 2022.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
API / Outil DéveloppeurOutils Développeur🇪🇪 EE
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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
GJ
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
KN
Kostya Nesterovich
A privacy analytics startup survives six months invisible on Google
Kostya Nesterovich's Seline Analytics reached $1K MRR after 16 months, despite a domain migration that knocked the homepage out of Google for exactly six months.
$1K MRR dans 1 year·Solo
SaaSMarketingEurope
JM
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
TN
Tim Nolet
How Tim Nolet grew Checkly to about $1K MRR by rewarding early adopters
Tim Nolet built Checkly part-time, used a private beta plus open-source Puppeteer Recorder to reach developers, and crossed roughly $1,100 MRR by pairing technical content with early-adopter discounts.
$1K MRR dans 6 months·Solo
SaaSOutils DéveloppeurBerlin, Germany
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
PN
Pratham Naik
How Pratham Naik took Bearconnect to $2.4K MRR by fixing churn before scaling
Pratham Naik grew Bearconnect to $2.4K MRR by starting with 80 direct messages, then pausing outreach to fix churn before scaling personalized outbound again.
$1K MRR dans 1 month·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇮🇳 IN
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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
KK
Kyle Konstnar
How Kyle Konstnar took HandyPay to $1K MRR in under 60 days
Kyle Konstnar stopped waiting for SEO and landing-page tweaks, went directly to spas, salons, and service businesses, and turned HandyPay into a $1K MRR payments tool in under 60 days.
$1K MRR dans 2 months·Solo
SaaSFinanceJamaica
MP
Miquel Palet
Leaving a VC-Backed Edtech to Bootstrap Zernio to $1M ARR in 10 Months
Miquel Palet left a venture-backed edtech path, built a focused developer API in a weekend, and used bottom-of-funnel SEO plus paid ads to bootstrap Zernio to $1M ARR in about 10 months.
$100K ARR dans 10 months·Solo
API / Outil DéveloppeurOutils Développeur
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