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Dawson Whitfield
How Dawson Whitfield went from a Google Trends tab to $70,000 in a month with Logojoy
A designer who had made about 150 client logos built his own logo maker in two and a half months, launched it on Product Hunt, and made nearly $70,000 in February 2017.
$100K ARR ／ 6 months·ソロ
SaaSデザイン🇨🇦 CA
Moiz Ali
Native sold 60 deodorants before it owned a single one
Moiz Ali launched Native on Product Hunt in July 2015 with no inventory, no factory and a formula bought from an Etsy seller. He placed his first production order only after 60 units were already sold.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 days·ソロ
その他Eコマース🇺🇸 US
Volkan Kaya
Seven months on an MVP, then a free side tool brought Versoly its first paying customer
Volkan Kaya and his co-founder spent seven months building a website builder nobody would use for free. A two week side project that hit number one on Product Hunt finally produced customer number one.
初めての顧客 ／ 7 months·チーム
SaaSデザイン🇬🇧 GB
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 ／ 3 months·ソロ
SaaS生産性Bangkok, Thailand
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 ／ 3 years·ソロ
SaaSデザイン🇺🇸 US
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James Ivings
how leave me alone reached $10k mrr by unsubscribing people from spam in the open
James Ivings and Danielle Johnson launched a one-click email unsubscribe tool on Product Hunt in 2019, then grew it to around $10k MRR while publishing every metric on a public open-startup page.
$10K MRR ／ 7 years·チーム
SaaS生産性🌍 Remote
Viktor Seraleev
how a widget website builder reached its first paying users in one month
Viktor Seraleev built Type.link with a developer friend, collected 400 emails before launch, and hit $134 MRR in his first month charging for bio-link sites.
$100 MRR ／ 1 month·ソロ
SaaSデザイン🌍 Remote
Kirill Shevchenko
how Kirill Shevchenko bootstrapped Roundups into a profitable AI side project
After years of failed AI products, Kirill Shevchenko co-founded Roundups, an AI content tool for affiliate marketers, and turned it profitable in a year by pairing a Product Hunt launch with an AppSumo lifetime deal, all while keeping his day job.
$1K MRR ／ 5 months·チーム
SaaSマーケティング
Joe Masilotti
a one-month mvp that sold 14 months later
A Rails developer timeboxed an MVP to 30 days, landed two paying customers in his first 20 minutes on Product Hunt, and sold the product 14 months later.
$100 MRR ／ 2 months·ソロ
SaaS開発者ツール🇺🇸 US
Andrew Mason
Descript: The Groupon Founder Who Built a $550M AI Video Editor by Editing Audio Like Text
After founding Groupon ($16B IPO) and watching it unravel, Andrew Mason built Descript — an AI video editor that lets you edit media by editing text. He acquired a voice-cloning AI startup and rebuilt the product from scratch.
$100K ARR ／ 5 years·ソロ
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇺🇸 US
Nadav Keyson
Riverside: From a Failed Debating Platform to $80M in Funding — How Two Brothers Built the Go-To Podcast Recording Tool
Nadav and Gideon Keyson, two Dutch-Israeli brothers, failed with a live debating platform nobody watched. They pivoted to remote podcast recording, launched on Product Hunt with 2 paying customers, and landed Hillary Clinton within 6 months.
$10K MRR ／ 2 years·チーム
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇺🇸 US
AU
Andres Ugarte
Solo Founder Builds Apple Design Award Finalist Finance App
Andres Ugarte started building Copilot Money in 2018, creating a native iOS finance app that became an Apple Design Award finalist.
$10K MRR ／ 2 years·ソロ
モバイルアプリ金融🇺🇸 US
GM
Guillaume Moubeche
Guillaume Moubeche Bootstrapped Lemlist from $0 to $250K ARR in 365 Days
Guillaume and two technical co-founders built Lemlist, reaching $250K ARR in one year with $0 in funding through Product Hunt and AppSumo.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇫🇷 FR
AJ
AJ Built Carrd to $1M+ ARR as a Solo Side Project
AJ built Carrd as the most ambitious solo project he had ever taken on, spending about a year on it to test if people wanted one-page websites. Now it powers 3.3M+ sites with 2.2M+ users.
$100K ARR ／ 4 years·ソロ
SaaSデザイン🇺🇸 US
Joshua Xu & Wayne Liang
HeyGen: From Snapchat Engineer to 40K Enterprise Customers with AI Video
Joshua Xu left Snapchat to build HeyGen, growing to 40K+ enterprise customers and $35M+ revenue with AI-generated video avatars.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·チーム
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Fabrizio Bianchi
How a Weekend Project Became a 3M+ User Color Tool
Fabrizio Bianchi built Coolors in a weekend in 2014, and it grew to 3M+ users through viral simplicity.
$10K MRR ／ 4 years·ソロ
SaaSデザイン🇮🇹 IT
Michael Mignano
Democratizing Podcasting: How Anchor Became Spotify for Creators
Michael Mignano built Anchor to make podcast creation free and easy. The platform now powers one-third of all new podcasts and was acquired by Spotify.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 days·チーム
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇺🇸 US
Mubashar Iqbal
How building 120+ side projects led to a viral hit with 14M page views
After 80+ failed projects, one finally went viral. 4 million page views in 4 weeks, $4K/month in ad revenue, then sold.
$1K MRR ／ 2 months·チーム
その他教育🇺🇸 US
Nathan Latka
Podcast Host Turns Interview Data into $150K MRR SaaS in 100 Days
Nathan turned his podcast interview data into Getlatka, reaching $20K/month in 100 days and $150K MRR within a year.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
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Prince
21-Year-Old Indian Developer Makes $3.5K in 2 Months Selling AI Chrome Extension Source Code
Prince built Helper-AI and earned $3.5K in 2 months by selling the source code on Gumroad - without a large following.
$1K MRR ／ 8 months·ソロ
Chrome ExtensionAI / ML🇮🇳 IN
Julien Nahum
Bootstrapped a Notion form builder from $0 to $10K MRR in one year
Julien built NotionForms to solve his own problem, reaching $10K MRR in 12 months through Product Hunt and SEO.
$10K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaS生産性🇫🇷 FR
GR
Guilherme Rizzo
21-Year-Old Self-Taught Brazilian Developer Makes $100K with CSS Extension
I'm from Brazil and built CSS Scan because I always wanted to know what border-radius, box-shadow, or font-family an element I see has. Fast Progre...
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·ソロ
Chrome Extension開発者ツールBrazil (now Taiwan)
Robin Vander Heyden
ManyPixels
Unlimited Design for $359/Month: Productized Service to $60K MRR
Robin didn't have a job and decided to launch a productized service offering unlimited design work for a fixed fee per month. Rapid Growth He gr...
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
エージェンシー / サービスデザイン🇺🇸 US
Alexander Isora
How I built a landing page builder to $10K MRR as a solo founder
I've created 20+ products over the years. Unicorn Platform was the one that really got off the ground. I don't have any KPI or growth goals. I'm not c...
$10K MRR ／ 3 years·ソロ
SaaS開発者ツールGeorgia
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