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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.
初めての顧客 ／ 6 months·ソロ
SaaS生産性🇮🇳 IN
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Peter Hrbacik
how Peter Hrbacik turned KWFinder into a $223k/mo SEO suite
After years of failed prototypes and freelance work, Peter Hrbacik built KWFinder in about a month, launched it to Hacker News and Reddit, and grew the simple SEO tool into Mangools, a bootstrapped suite reporting roughly $223k/month by 2018.
$1K MRR ／ 5 months·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇸🇰 SK
Eric Provencher
Giving an AI coding workflow away before turning it into 5-figure MRR
Eric Provencher built Repo Prompt as a free AI coding workflow tool, grew a power-user community, then monetized it into 5-figure MRR within a year of the first tester build.
$10K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaS開発者ツール🇨🇦 CA
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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 ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSコンテンツ制作
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 ／ 4 months·ソロ
情報商材デザイン
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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 ／ 2 years·ソロ
SaaS旅行San Francisco, California
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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.
初めての顧客 ／ 14 days·ソロ
その他旅行Sydney, Australia
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Michael Lynch
how michael lynch bootstrapped tinypilot to nearly $1m and sold it for $598k
After two money-losing years out of Google, Michael Lynch built TinyPilot in his third year as an indie founder, grew it to roughly $1M in annual sales, and sold it for $598,000.
$100K ARR ／ 6 months·ソロ
その他開発者ツールWestern Massachusetts, USA
Alexander Belogubov
how Refgrow reached its first 33 paying customers without a viral moment
Alexander Belogubov spent about nine months building Refgrow, an affiliate program tool for SaaS, then pieced together his first 33 paying customers through affiliates, niche Facebook groups, and repeat Product Hunt launches.
$1K MRR ／ 6 months·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇦 UA
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Richard Wang
how richard reached 30k mrr with a reddit marketing tool
After shutting down an AI product nobody wanted, Richard Wang spent a month answering Reddit marketing questions, gathered 300 people who shared the same pain, and only then built Leadmore AI. More than ten of them paid in week one.
$100K ARR ／ 3 months·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング
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Aurelio Volle
how a lawyer and a developer bootstrapped wp umbrella to $110k mrr
Aurelio Volle and his co-founder lived on French unemployment support while reinvesting every euro into WP Umbrella, a WordPress maintenance tool that grew to $110K MRR without outside funding.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaS開発者ツール🇫🇷 FR
Junaid Ansari
how two freelancers turned Draftss into a 7-figure productized design service
Junaid Ansari and his cofounder packaged their freelance design and code work into a flat monthly subscription, then grew it to a 75-person bootstrapped team serving thousands of founders.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
エージェンシー / サービスデザインMumbai, India
John O'Nolan
how john o'nolan bootstrapped ghost to $10m arr as a non-profit
Rejected by Y Combinator twice, John O'Nolan crowdfunded Ghost on Kickstarter and built it into a $10M ARR open source publishing platform owned by a non-profit foundation.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaSコンテンツ制作🌍 Remote
Mohamed Nagm
How Mohamed Nagm turned Reddit pain points into SaasNiche's first $305 MRR
Mohamed Nagm built SaasNiche around one sharp promise: stop guessing what to build by mining Reddit for real customer pain. Founder-message and Stripe-verified sources show it reached roughly $300 MRR with a single Reddit-led channel.
$100 MRR ／ 1 month·ソロ
SaaSAI / ML🇪🇬 EG
Amjad Masad
Replit: 9 Years of Grinding, 4 YC Rejections, Then $70M ARR When AI Hit
Amjad Masad was rejected from YC four times and was stuck at $2.8M ARR after 8 years. When he launched Replit Agent, revenue exploded 25x in 12 months.
$100K ARR ／ 9 years·チーム
SaaS開発者ツール🇺🇸 US
Jan Oberhauser
n8n: Solo Founder Side Project to $2.5B Open-Source Automation Platform
Jan Oberhauser, a VFX pipeline engineer, started coding n8n in his Berlin apartment after work. His first hire was a developer evangelist. Now it's worth $2.5B with 150K GitHub stars.
$100K ARR ／ 7 years·ソロ
SaaS生産性🇩🇪 DE
Demi Guo
Pika: Two Stanford PhD Dropouts Built a $470M AI Video Generator with 500K Discord Members in 4 Months
Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng dropped out of Stanford's AI PhD program after being frustrated with existing AI video tools. They launched Pika on Discord, hit 500K members in 4 months, and raised $135M — all with a team of 13.
$10K MRR ／ 10 months·チーム
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Young Zhao
Opus Clip: $1M ARR in Its First Month After Beta Launch — How a Failed Livestreaming Tool Pivoted to 10M Users
Young Zhao's AI livestreaming tool had only 200 users after 3 months. But one tiny clipping feature users kept asking about became Opus Clip — hitting $1M ARR in its first month after beta launch and 10M users within 2 years.
$10K MRR ／ 2 months·チーム
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇺🇸 US
Dan Anisse
Relume: From Webflow Agency to $1.8M ARR SaaS — Bootstrapped, 41K+ Users, Zero Outside Funding
Dan Anisse and Adam Mura ran a Webflow agency and kept building the same components. They productized the work into Relume — a component library that grew to 41K+ users, $150K MRR, and an AI site builder, all bootstrapped.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·チーム
SaaSデザイン🇦🇺 AU
Grant LaFontaine
How Whatnot Turned Livestream Auctions into a $3.7B Collectibles Marketplace
Grant LaFontaine saw Pokémon card sellers going live on Instagram with clunky workarounds. He built Whatnot — a dedicated live auction platform. Result: $3.7B valuation, 200K+ sellers.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
マーケットプレイスEコマース🇺🇸 US
Christine Yen
How Honeycomb Created the Observability Category and Built a $200M+ Developer Tools Company
Christine Yen and Charity Majors didn't just build a product — they created the "observability" category. By writing, speaking, and defining the space, Honeycomb became the category leader. Result: $200M+ in funding, used by Slack, Vanguard, and HelloFresh.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaS開発者ツール🇺🇸 US
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Peer Richelsen
How Peer Richelsen Built an Open-Source Calendly Alternative with 20K+ GitHub Stars
Peer Richelsen launched Calendso as an open-source Calendly alternative, attracted 20K+ GitHub stars, rebranded to Cal.com, and raised $32M.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaS生産性🇩🇪 DE
Noah Kagan
How Employee #30 at Facebook Built AppSumo into an $80M+ Deal Marketplace After Getting Fired
Noah Kagan was fired from Facebook before the IPO. He launched AppSumo with a Reddit post and a $12K deal — building it into $80M+ annual revenue.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·ソロ
マーケットプレイスEコマース🇺🇸 US
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Zuhayeer Musa & Zaheer Mohiuddin
How Two Engineers Built Levels.fyi into the Definitive Tech Compensation Platform With Zero Marketing Spend
Two software engineers built a side project to map compensation levels across tech companies. Word spread on Blind and HN. Now Levels.fyi dominates tech compensation data.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·チーム
SaaS生産性🇺🇸 US
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