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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
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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
Jason Leow
How Jason Leow's coding practice turned into Plugins For Carrd
Jason Leow built tiny Vue apps to teach himself to code, then noticed they filled gaps in Carrd. Three months of free plugins later he charged for the first one, and year one closed at $1,099.
$100 MRR ／ 4 months·ソロ
その他デザイン🇸🇬 SG
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
Matthieu Rouif
Two weeks from the first commit to a paid app: how Matthieu Rouif started Photoroom
Matthieu Rouif and Eliot Andres shipped the first version of Photoroom, then called BG, fourteen days after the first line of code, with subscriptions already wired in. It now processes more than 7 billion images a year.
初めての顧客 ／ 14 days·チーム
モバイルアプリデザイン🇫🇷 FR
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
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
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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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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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
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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
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
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
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
Alex Danilowicz
how two frontend engineers built magic patterns to $1m arr with no employees
Alex Danilowicz and Teddy Ni were tired of rebuilding Figma mockups in code. They turned that frustration into Magic Patterns, an AI design tool that reached $1M ARR profitably with just the two of them before raising a $6M Series A.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaSデザインSan Francisco, USA
Mattia Pomelli
how sleek.design reached $10k mrr six weeks after launch
Mattia Pomelli and two friends repurposed an earlier design tool into Sleek, an AI mobile app designer, and reached $10k MRR within six weeks of launch without spending on ads.
$10K MRR ／ 1 month·チーム
SaaSデザイン🌍 Remote
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Pranay Agarwal
how Pranay Agarwal grew Mockey.ai to $12k a month by adding download limits
Pranay Agarwal and his co-founder ran Mockey as a free, ad-supported side project for years. Adding subscriptions and download caps roughly tripled revenue, reaching about $12k a month.
$10K MRR ／ 11 months·チーム
SaaSデザインNew Delhi, India
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
Melanie Perkins
Canva: Rejected 100+ Times, Then Built a $40B Design Empire from Perth, Australia
Melanie Perkins started teaching design tools in college and realized they were too hard to use. After being rejected by 100+ investors, she built Canva into a $40B platform with 220M+ monthly active users.
$100K ARR ／ 4 years·チーム
SaaSデザイン🇦🇺 AU
Victor Perez
Krea AI: A Localhost Demo That Made $10K Before Launch — 20M Users with a Team of 8
Victor Perez and Diego Rodriguez dropped King of Spain scholarships at Cornell to build Krea AI. A localhost demo posted on Twitter generated $10K in subscriptions in 24 hours. They grew to 20M users with just 8 people.
$10K MRR ／ 2 years·チーム
SaaSデザイン🇺🇸 US
Brett Williams
DesignJoy: How Brett Williams Built a $1.5M/Year Design Agency of One — Zero Employees, $95/Month in Tools
Brett Williams had been designing since 2009. In 2017 he launched DesignJoy, a subscription design service. Building in public on Twitter from early 2022 filled a 100+ company waitlist in three weeks and let him double his prices. By 2022, he broke $1.5M ARR as a true agency of one.
$100K ARR ／ 4 years·ソロ
エージェンシー / サービスデザイン🇺🇸 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
Zeno Rocha
From Hospital Bed to $250K: How a Dark Theme Became a Design Business
Zeno Rocha created the Dracula color theme in 2013 while hospitalized in Germany, after his laptop was stolen from his hospital room. Seven years and 3 million downloads later, he launched a paid version, and made $5K in 72 hours.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·ソロ
その他デザインBrazil → USA
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