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Alex Bouaziz
Deel rebuilt its product in ten days and hit $5,000 a month by demo day
Deel's first product had no buyers. A pivot ten days before Y Combinator's demo day put 290 contractors and $5,000 a month on the board.
$1K MRR ／ 2 months·チーム
SaaS金融🌍 Remote
Brian Chesky
Three airbeds paid the rent, then Airbnb went a year with no traction
Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had paying guests within a week of the idea because a design conference had sold out every hotel in San Francisco. Turning that weekend into a company took a year of failed launches, credit card debt and cereal money.
初めての顧客 ／ 7 days·チーム
マーケットプレイス旅行San Francisco, USA
Bryce Adams
Bryce Adams quit Automattic to build Metorik and had 10 paying customers in four months
Bryce Adams left a job he loved at Automattic in August 2016 to build the WooCommerce reporting tool nobody else would build. Ten paying stores signed up four months later.
$1K MRR ／ 12 months·ソロ
SaaSEコマース🇦🇺 AU
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Cedric Isubol
Fourteen paying users in two weeks, from Facebook groups alone
Cedric Isubol built an AI calorie tracker for the home cooked local food that western nutrition databases do not recognize. Two weeks after the Google Play launch it had 14 paying subscribers and $35 in monthly recurring revenue, with no ad spend and one marketing channel.
初めての顧客 ／ 14 days·ソロ
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネス🇵🇭 PH
Eric Migicovsky
Beeper charged $10 a month from its first public day
Eric Migicovsky named Beeper in public in July 2020 and launched it on Hacker News 195 days later as a paid chat app at $10 a month. Automattic bought it in April 2024.
初めての顧客 ／ 7 months·チーム
SaaS生産性🇺🇸 US
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Ivan Kutskir
Four years and 7,000 hours before Photopea made a dollar
Ivan Kutskir built a browser based Photoshop alternative alone for four years without earning anything, then found that five cents per user hour adds up.
$100K ARR ／ 7 years·ソロ
SaaSデザイン🇨🇿 CZ
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Jesse Neugarten
Jesse Neugarten charged from day one and reached $1,500 a month in six months
A non technical founder with a full time job built a flight deals email list on Instapage and MailChimp, priced it at $1, $9 and $19 a month, and had 100 paying members by the end of month one.
$1K MRR ／ 6 months·ソロ
その他旅行🇺🇸 US
Julian Hearn
Two orders on day one: how Julian Hearn started Huel from his garage
Huel's website went live with no buzz at all and took two orders on the first day. Julian Hearn packed them himself, and says revenue reached £9 million two years later.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 days·チーム
その他健康・ウェルネス🇬🇧 GB
Victor Cardenas
Slash sold a $100 a month card to sneaker resellers and hit $5m ARR in 11 months
Victor Cardenas and Kevin Bai spent a year failing before a handful of sneaker resellers told them exactly what to build and what they would pay. Eleven months after that pivot, Slash was at $5 million in ARR.
$100K ARR ／ 11 months·チーム
SaaS金融🇺🇸 US
Yahya Mokhtarzada
Two years free, then the last chance subscription that saved Truebill
Truebill spent two years as a free app whose founders assumed nobody would pay a subscription to cancel subscriptions. The premium tier they shipped as a last resort converted at 3.5 times what Yahya Mokhtarzada expected.
初めての顧客 ／ 2 years·チーム
モバイルアプリ金融🇺🇸 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 ／ 3 months·ソロ
SaaSマーケティングBarcelona, Spain
Anatoly Pashias & Nick Nicolaou
How Motionvid.ai used a 21-day MVP and AppSumo launch to reach $7.8K MRR
Anatoly Pashias and Nick Nicolaou built Motionvid.ai from a filmmaker's motion-design bottleneck, launched a 21-day MVP through AppSumo, and grew the AI video tool to about $7.8K MRR without relying on paid ads.
$1K MRR ／ 8 months·チーム
SaaSコンテンツ制作Limassol, Cyprus
Giulio Greco
How a 17-year-old founder took ForgeGUI to $100K ARR by serving game developers' UI bottleneck
Giulio Greco focused ForgeGUI on the game-developer asset bottleneck, then used demos and community loops to reach a reported $100K ARR roughly six weeks after launch.
$100K ARR ／ 1 month·ソロ
SaaSデザイン🇺🇸 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.
初めての顧客 ／ 12 days·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇮🇳 IN
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 ／ 8 months·チーム
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネス🇺🇸 US
Josh (hellwaiver)
How Josh turned a forgotten cover-letter side project into JobBuddy's $1K MRR
Josh launched JobBuddy as a free Reddit side project for cover letters, forgot about it for months, then turned thousands of organic Reddit users into a freemium AI job-search SaaS at about $1K MRR.
$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaS生産性🇬🇧 GB
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 ／ 1 month·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🌍 Remote
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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.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 days·チーム
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネスSan Francisco, United States
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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 ／ 6 months·ソロ
Chrome Extension生産性🌍 Remote
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 ／ 28 days·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇫🇷 FR
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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.
初めての顧客 ／ 0 days·ソロ
SaaSデザインBologna, 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.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 month·チーム
API / 開発者ツール開発者ツール🇺🇸 US
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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 ／ 6 months·ソロ
SaaSAI / ML🇩🇪 DE
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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 ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaS開発者ツールBerlin, Germany
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