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Brian Balfour
Brian Balfour ran Reforge on customer money for five years before he raised anything
Reforge started as a weekend side project Brian Balfour ran while still at HubSpot. Five years later it was profitable with eight figures of revenue, and only then did he take outside money.
初めての顧客 ／ 4 months·ソロ
情報商材教育🇺🇸 US
Chris Coyier
Chris Coyier started CSS-Tricks for beer money and sold it 15 years later
Chris Coyier launched css-tricks.com on July 4, 2007 as SEO filler in a network of Adobe help sites. By his own 2007 wrap up post in January 2008 the blog already had paying sponsors, and in March 2022 he sold it to DigitalOcean.
初めての顧客 ／ 7 months·ソロ
その他教育🇺🇸 US
DK
Deepak Kanakaraju
Deepak Kanakaraju blogged for three years before asking anyone for money, then pre-sold 250 copies of a course that did not exist
Deepak Kanakaraju spent three years writing at DigitalDeepak.com without selling anything. In August 2016 he published an outline for a course he had not made, emailed his list, and took 250 pre-orders in a week.
初めての顧客 ／ 3 years·ソロ
情報商材教育🇮🇳 IN
Matt Paulson
The stock ratings email that turned into a $50 million media company
Matt Paulson built a daily stock ratings email to keep an ad network happy. The paid version sold 12 subscriptions its first weekend and became MarketBeat.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·ソロ
情報商材金融🇺🇸 US
Patrick Campbell
Patrick Campbell wrote an ebook, then sold pricing audits to ProfitWell's first 20 customers
Patrick Campbell cashed out his 401k in 2012, wrote an ebook about SaaS pricing and turned free pricing audits into the first 20 customers of Price Intelligently. He sold the company, by then ProfitWell, to Paddle for over $200 million.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·ソロ
SaaS金融🇺🇸 US
Peter Askew
He bought an expired domain for $2,200, then went looking for a farmer
Peter Askew won VidaliaOnions.com at auction with a bid he expected to lose, spent a month working out what to do with it, then partnered with a Georgia onion farmer. They forecast 50 orders in season one and shipped over 600.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 month·チーム
その他Eコマース🇺🇸 US
AE
Antonio Escudero
how Antonio Escudero grew RankInPublic to $17k MRR by turning launches into SEO tournaments
Antonio Escudero built RankInPublic into a free tournament launch platform, then turned the same founder audience into a $17k+ MRR SEO directory-submission business.
初めての顧客 ／ 2 months·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇪🇸 ES
Ramsri Goutham Golla
How Questgen.ai became a $4K MRR slow-cooked AI quiz SaaS
Ramsri Goutham Golla turned years of AI question-generation research, Medium posts, GitHub code, and a Udemy course into Questgen.ai, a solo edtech SaaS that reached about $4K MRR without a viral launch.
初めての顧客 ／ 2 years·ソロ
SaaS教育Hyderabad, India
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 ／ 1 year·ソロ
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネスTbilisi, Georgia
AR
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 ／ 1 year·ソロ
API / 開発者ツール開発者ツール🇪🇪 EE
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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 ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSマーケティングEurope
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 ／ 10 months·ソロ
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Yasha Boroumand
how Yasha Boroumand dogfooded FlowHunt to $10k/mo
After two failed URLSlab attempts, Yasha Boroumand turned FlowHunt into an AI-agent builder, used the product to automate its own SEO engine, and grew to $10k/month with $6k recurring subscriptions plus $4k one-off credits.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 month·チーム
SaaSAI / ML🇸🇰 SK
GR
Geoff Roberts, Dimitris Georgakopoulos, Dave Wong
Building the Shopify for SaaS on a 15-year timeline
Geoff Roberts and the Outseta team spent three years getting to about $1.5K MRR, then kept building an integrated SaaS stack until it became a low seven-figure business.
$1K MRR ／ 3 years·チーム
SaaS開発者ツール🇺🇸 US
BE
Berk Elmas
how sketch logo ai reached $8.4k in four months on seo and a product hunt launch
A bootstrapped AI logo tool that hit $8.4k in four months through a Product Hunt launch and a relentless SEO and backlink grind.
$1K MRR ／ 1 month·チーム
SaaSデザイン🇹🇷 TR
Eric Alli
how a solo theme maker stacked productized services to reach $20k mrr
Eric Alli sold themes for over a decade, watched WordPress sales dry up, then rebuilt on Ghost and reached $20k a month, with custom build services making up three quarters of it.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·ソロ
情報商材デザインSan Francisco, USA
MR
Mathias Robin
how a solo founder built nala with 13 human narrators instead of ai voices
Mathias Robin spent 18 months bootstrapping Nala, a bilingual meditation app, choosing 13 specialist narrators over one generic catalogue and SEO over ads.
初めての顧客 ／ 2 months·ソロ
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネス🇫🇷 FR
Elliot Sowersby
the WooCommerce plugin that earned almost nothing for 3 years, then became a full-time business
Elliot Sowersby spent three years building Coupon Affiliates with little to show for it. A decade later it is his biggest source of income and plugins make up over 90% of his revenue.
$10K MRR ／ 8 years·ソロ
SaaSEコマースYorkshire, United Kingdom
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Mehreen
how a marketing employee built a travel blog from $847 to $67k a year
Mehreen made just $847 from her travel blog in year one. By her first full-time year it brought in $67,000 across six income streams. The turning point was learning SEO and email.
$1K MRR ／ 2 years·ソロ
その他旅行
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Andrew Fennell
how a recruiter grew standout cv to £40k mrr on seo alone
Andrew Fennell knew nothing about SEO when he launched StandOut CV. A decade of slow, compounding content and careful link building took the CV builder past 23,000 paying customers and £40K MRR with no paid ads.
$100K ARR ／ 5 years·ソロ
SaaS生産性🇬🇧 GB
SM
Sam May
how sam may grew an ai ebook creator to 700 users on seo alone
A solo developer built Inkfluence AI from scratch in October 2025 and reached 700+ users with zero ad spend, using a relentless search-console content loop and a new channel: getting cited by AI assistants.
$100 MRR ／ 3 months·ソロ
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇺🇸 US
AC
Angus Cheng
how a hong kong developer reached $1k mrr converting pdf bank statements
Angus Cheng spent thousands on Google Ads and barely broke even selling PDF conversion credits. Switching to subscriptions and writing blog posts got Bank Statement Converter to $1K MRR in ten months, then past $7K with ads switched off.
$1K MRR ／ 11 months·ソロ
SaaS金融🇭🇰 HK
MD
Mat De Sousa
how mat de sousa bootstrapped widebundle to $25k mrr as a student
After three failed Shopify apps, an engineering student built a bundling app in two weeks and grew it to $25,134 MRR in under a year with no paid ads.
$100K ARR ／ 10 months·ソロ
SaaSEコマース🇫🇷 FR
Max Schmitt
how a solo dev sold 239 copies of his invoicing app in 2025
Max Schmitt has built Cakedesk, a one-time-purchase invoicing app, as a side project since late 2021. In its fourth year it sold 239 new licenses, up from about 170 the year before.
$1K MRR ／ 2 years·ソロ
その他金融🇩🇪 DE
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