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Brianna Blaney & Dr. Aria Hahn
From an oversubscribed alpha to $2M+ in funding for our startup
We started Pocketed during the pandemic to help startups find grants and funding they didn't know existed. The Idea During COVID, there was sudd...
初めての顧客 ／ 0 days·チーム
SaaS金融Vancouver, BC, Canada
RS
Roman Sevast
From Crushing VC Rejection to YC: Designer Marketplace $100K ARR in 3 Months
Roman struggled to find the right designer while working on a previous startup. They launched Awesomic with a simple Facebook post. Fast Validation...
$100K ARR ／ 7 months·チーム
マーケットプレイスデザイン🇺🇸 US
Sebastian Röhl
German Developer Reaches $10K MRR After 2.5 Years with Habit App
I'm a 29-year-old software engineer from Germany who left my full-time job to dedicate one year to building my own projects. The Grind My MRR gr...
$10K MRR ／ 2 years·ソロ
モバイルアプリ生産性🇩🇪 DE
Andy Cloke
Solo founder bootstraps Airtable API tool to $10K MRR in 2 years
Data Fetcher recently hit $10k MRR. It's still 100% bootstrapped with one full-time team member (me!). Background I studied engineering at unive...
$10K MRR ／ 2 years·ソロ
SaaS開発者ツール🇬🇧 GB
KA
Kushank Aggarwal
Prompt Genie
From Idea to First Customer in 4 Days, Five Figures in 30 Days Using No-Code + TikTok
A non-technical founder went from idea to first customer in 4 days and five figures in 30 days using no-code tools and TikTok.
$10K MRR ／ 1 month·チーム
Chrome ExtensionAI / MLUnknown
Cassey Ho
How a Farewell YouTube Video for 40 Students Became a Multi-Million Dollar Fitness Empire
Cassey Ho posted one Pilates video for her 40 students before moving cross-country. It accidentally became the #1 female fitness channel on YouTube with 500M+ views.
$100K ARR ／ 6 years·ソロ
その他健康・ウェルネス🇺🇸 US
DJ
Dr. John Berardi
The Launch That Made $140K in One Week — Then Almost Bankrupted Them
Dr. John Berardi launched Precision Nutrition to a 30,000-person newsletter. They made $500,000 in six months. Then their payment processor froze every dollar. This is the story of how they survived.
$100K ARR ／ 1 month·チーム
情報商材健康・ウェルネス🇨🇦 CA
Chris Do
The Futur: How Emmy-Winning Designer Chris Do Built a $4.9M Education Business from YouTube
Chris Do ran an Emmy-winning design agency for 22+ years. In 2014, he started making YouTube videos teaching creatives how to run businesses. That side project became The Futur — 2.5M subscribers and $4.9M+/year.
$100K ARR ／ 7 years·チーム
情報商材教育🇺🇸 US
Codie Sanchez
Contrarian Thinking: How Codie Sanchez Built a 750K-Subscriber Newsletter and $100M+ Business Portfolio from Scratch
Codie Sanchez went from Goldman Sachs to building Contrarian Thinking — a newsletter that hit 10K subscribers in 30 days. She parlayed that audience into courses, community, and a holding company that now does 9 figures in revenue.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·ソロ
情報商材金融🇺🇸 US
Ben Francis
How a 19-Year-Old Pizza Delivery Driver Built Gymshark into a $1.45B Fitness Empire
Ben Francis was delivering pizzas when he started screen-printing fitness apparel in his garage. By partnering with YouTube fitness influencers, he turned Gymshark into a £1.45B brand.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
その他Eコマース🇬🇧 GB
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 ／ 2 months·ソロ
SaaSAI / ML🇬🇧 GB
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 ／ 5 months·チーム
SaaSコンテンツ制作Amersfoort, Netherlands
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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 ／ 10 months·ソロ
その他EコマースAustin, Texas, USA
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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 ／ 1 year·ソロ
情報商材コンテンツ制作
Ramon Berrios
how ramon berrios bootstrapped castmagic to $1m arr in under 9 months
Ramon Berrios and his co-founders built Castmagic to fix their own podcast workflow, then bootstrapped it to $1M ARR in under nine months with no outside money.
$100K ARR ／ 7 months·チーム
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇺🇸 US
David Park
how jenni ai ground through three flat years to hit $10m arr
David Park sat at roughly $2,000 MRR for three years before a niche pivot to academic writing and a viral thread sent Jenni AI on a climb to $10M ARR and 10 million users.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·チーム
SaaS教育🇺🇸 US
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Shaun Donnelly
how a london indie dev grew a workout app to $3,630 mrr
Shaun Donnelly started Personal Best as a hobby and turned it into a full-time iOS app with 500,000+ downloads and $3,630 in monthly recurring revenue by the end of 2025.
$1K MRR ／ 4 years·ソロ
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネスLondon, United Kingdom
Thomas Frank
how thomas frank made $1m/year selling notion templates
After a decade making content, Thomas Frank made $1 million in a single year selling Notion templates, with the line peaking at $100k a month in one-time template sales.
初めての顧客 ／ 0 days·ソロ
情報商材生産性Colorado, USA
SR
Sergi Ruiz
how a personalized map shop quietly made over 500k as a side project
Sergi Ruiz and his wife launched Mapness in 2017 selling custom map prints. Organic Instagram posts grew into a six-figure pandemic peak, then a slow fade.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·チーム
その他Eコマース🇪🇸 ES
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 ／ 2 months·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🌍 Remote
PV
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 ／ 3 months·チーム
SaaSマーケティングFrance / Belgium
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 ／ 6 months·ソロ
SaaS開発者ツール🇺🇸 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.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 month·ソロ
モバイルアプリ教育🇺🇸 US
AK
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 ／ 9 days·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
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.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 days·ソロ
モバイルアプリ開発者ツールNaples, Italy
SA
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 ／ 4 years·ソロ
SaaS生産性Dublin, Ireland
PN
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 ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaSEコマースBengaluru, India
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 ／ 4 months·ソロ
モバイルアプリ教育Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
JZ
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.
初めての顧客 ／ 7 days·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
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