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Derrick Reimer
Derrick Reimer hit $10K MRR with SavvyCal one year after the first line of code
After walking away from a Slack competitor he had built for a year, Derrick Reimer took on Calendly instead and passed $10K MRR twelve months after starting to write SavvyCal.
$10K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaS生産性🇺🇸 US
Gagan Biyani
Maven hit a $4M run rate in three months, then spent two years undoing it
Gagan Biyani tested one live course before writing any software, launched Maven to a $4M course sales run rate in three months, then discovered the customers paying him did not need him.
$100K ARR ／ 6 months·チーム
マーケットプレイス教育🇺🇸 US
Javi Lopez
Magnific went from launch to $10M ARR in a year with two people and no ads
Magnific AI opened on 27 November 2023 with a waitlist, two founders and no free trial. Five months later it had 725,000 registered users and Freepik had bought it.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaSデザイン🇪🇸 ES
Josh Comeau
How Josh Comeau pre-sold $577,000 of a half-finished CSS course in one week
A repetitive strain injury pushed Josh Comeau out of a $165,000 engineering job. Seven months later he opened pre-orders for an unfinished CSS course, aimed at $50,000, and closed the week at $577,000.
$100K ARR ／ 8 months·ソロ
情報商材教育
AS
Angel Stoevski & Mihael Borchevski
How Footly reached $10K MRR in 90 days with an AI soccer coach
Angel Stoevski and co-founder Mihael Borchevski built Footly around a specific athlete pain: players could record training clips, but they lacked objective feedback and personalized practice plans. The app crossed $10K MRR by its third month.
$10K MRR ／ 1 month·チーム
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネスNorth Macedonia
Petar Georgiev
How PostFast reached €4K MRR by making social scheduling boring and reliable
Petar Georgiev turned his own cross-posting frustration into PostFast, a social scheduling SaaS built around a full-time job that reached about €4K MRR by April 2026.
$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇧🇬 BG
Farid Shukurov
How Farid turned his slow X growth problem into a $2K MRR AI posting coach
Farid Shukurov struggled to grow on X, studied viral posts manually, then turned that workflow into SupaBird, an AI growth suite that reached $2,057/month mostly through organic channels.
$1K MRR ／ 5 months·ソロ
SaaSマーケティングBerlin, Germany
Tyler Yin
How AIDesigner.ai climbed from under $1K to $9.5K MRR by fixing ugly vibe-coded UI
Tyler Yin spotted that vibe-coded apps often worked but looked bad, then built AIDesigner.ai into a design layer for AI builders that grew from under $1K to $9.5K MRR in 30 days.
$1K MRR ／ 1 month·ソロ
SaaSデザイン🇺🇸 US
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Vitalii Dodonov
How Stanley for X hit $4K MRR in 48 hours by bottling a ghostwriter's system
Vitalii Dodonov and the Stanley team turned a 10-day build sprint, a ghostwriter's playbook, and a Product Hunt/X launch into 777 signups and $4K MRR in 48 hours.
$1K MRR ／ 2 days·チーム
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇨🇦 CA
Matt Anderson
How Matt Anderson took an AI LinkedIn prospecting agent to $1.1K MRR in 30 days
Matt Anderson did not build ProspectZero around bigger cold lists. He narrowed the wedge to LinkedIn buying signals, dogfooded the agent in public, and reached roughly $1.1K MRR before a churn lesson pulled revenue back near $900.
$1K MRR ／ 1 month·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
Wilson Wilson
How Ferndesk reached $2K MRR by making help docs update themselves
Wilson Wilson turned stale SaaS help centers into an AI agent workflow and reached $2K MRR after 228 days by compounding weekly product work, customer conversations, and founder-led content.
$1K MRR ／ 5 months·ソロ
SaaSAI / ML
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Ilya Novohatskyi
Turning tiny startup exits into a $1K MRR marketplace
After a COVID layoff, Ilya Novohatskyi built Microns on nights and weekends as a micro-startup acquisition marketplace, using no-code tools, Twitter and Product Hunt to reach $1K MRR in one year.
$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
マーケットプレイス金融🇺🇦 UA
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Goutham Jay
From 100 followers to $1K MRR with a testimonial SaaS
Goutham Jay began building Famewall in public in February 2022, won the first paying customer in March, and crossed $1K MRR in September 2023.
$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇮🇳 IN
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Rob Hallam
how Rob Hallam turned five failed products into SuperX at $23k MRR
After 2.5 years and five products that made $0, Rob Hallam rebuilt his distribution around public X content, partnered on SuperX, and hit $1k MRR on launch day.
$10K MRR ／ 6 months·チーム
SaaSコンテンツ制作🌍 Remote
NB
Noah Bragg
how Noah Bragg reached $100 MRR with Supportman before a $27k sale
Noah Bragg built Supportman on nights and weekends for Intercom support teams, needed 7.5 months to reach $100 MRR, then later sold the small SaaS for $27k after it grew to about $400 MRR.
$100 MRR ／ 7 months·ソロ
SaaS生産性
Fernando Pessagno
Turning a ten-day build-in-public challenge into a $5K MRR creator tool
Fernando Pessagno built aiCarousels in a 10-day public challenge, got five paying users on launch day, and later grew the AI carousel maker to $5K MRR.
$1K MRR ／ 6 months·ソロ
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇸🇪 SE
Mattias Geniar & Freek Van der Herten
Building website monitoring from two operators' blind spots to $1.5K MRR
Mattias Geniar and Freek Van der Herten turned their developer-plus-sysadmin blind spots into Oh Dear, a website monitoring SaaS that reached more than $1.5K per month within its first production months.
$1K MRR ／ 6 months·チーム
SaaS開発者ツール🇧🇪 BE
Nicolas Cole & Dickie Bush
how Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush grew Write With AI to $400k a year
A side project to catch the ChatGPT wave became a paid Substack newsletter doing roughly $30k a month, built on quarterly product drops and a founding member tier.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
情報商材教育🇺🇸 US
Jack Friks
how jack friks built post bridge to $11k mrr by undercutting bloated schedulers
Tired of paying for overpriced social schedulers, Jack Friks shipped his own simple tool in about a month and built it in public to roughly $11k MRR.
$100K ARR ／ 7 months·ソロ
SaaSマーケティングOshawa, Ontario, Canada
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John Rush
how john rush turned an internal seo tool into a $1m arr ai agent
John Rush built SEObot to automate SEO for his own 24 projects, then opened it up and reached roughly $1M ARR within a year of its public launch.
$100K ARR ／ 3 months·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🌍 Remote
Hirvesh Munogee
how habit pixel hit $1k mrr in about 9 months as a solo app
Hirvesh Munogee built a gamified habit tracker, launched it quietly in March 2025, and reached $1K MRR by January 2026 through purchasing power parity pricing, localization, and seasonal timing.
$1K MRR ／ 9 months·ソロ
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネスMauritius
Ramish
how ramish reached $32k in his first full year selling framer templates
A designer in Dubai left client work, committed to one model, and turned consistent Framer template launches into $32,908 across 2025 despite a $49 month.
$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
情報商材デザインDubai, UAE
Matt McGarry
how matt mcgarry turned a newsletter into a 7-figure education business
Matt McGarry launched Newsletter Operator in January 2023 with a tweet and a 1,300-follower audience. Within a year and a half it grew past 25,000 subscribers and supported a 7-figure business built on courses and an agency.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·ソロ
情報商材コンテンツ制作🇺🇸 US
Olly Meakings
how senja reached $1m arr with a viral testimonial loop
Olly Meakings and Wilson Wilson bootstrapped Senja, a testimonial tool, to $1M ARR in under four years, largely on a product-led viral loop and relentless build-in-public reporting.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🌍 Remote
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