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Amy Porterfield
From a $267 first launch to a $120 million course business
Her first digital course made $267 and she cried about it. Sixteen years later she reports a $120 million business built on relaunching the same courses.
$100K ARR ／ 6 years·ソロ
情報商材教育🇺🇸 US
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
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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
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
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
Kyan Santiago-Calling
How ToneAdapt turned one guitar demo into a $25K/month app
Kyan Santiago-Calling built ToneAdapt as a fast guitar-tone matching project, then used TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, and relentless short-form demos to reach 100,000+ users and a reported $25K/month revenue run-rate.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 month·ソロ
モバイルアプリ教育🇺🇸 US
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
Alex Nguyen
How Feynman AI reached $6K MRR by turning lectures into study workflows
Alex Nguyen built Feynman AI after seeing an international student struggle to follow lectures abroad. A one-month web MVP, fast user feedback, TikTok-style social distribution and App Store search took the solo education app to over $6K MRR in four months.
$1K MRR ／ 4 months·ソロ
モバイルアプリ教育Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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
David Park
how jenni ai ground through three flat years to hit $10m arr
David Park sat at roughly $2,000 MRR for three years before a niche pivot to academic writing and a viral thread sent Jenni AI on a climb to $10M ARR and 10 million users.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·チーム
SaaS教育🇺🇸 US
Alex Hormozi
How Alex Hormozi Built Gym Launch to $17M Profit in Year One — Then Sold It for $46.2M
Alex Hormozi sold his six gyms, poured the money into a licensing model, and hit $17M profit in the first year. He scaled to 4,500+ locations across 13 countries, sold for $46.2M, then built Acquisition.com into a $250M+ portfolio.
$100K ARR ／ 6 months·チーム
エージェンシー / サービス教育🇺🇸 US
Chris Do
The Futur: How Emmy-Winning Designer Chris Do Built a $4.9M Education Business from YouTube
Chris Do ran an Emmy-winning design agency for 22+ years. In 2014, he started making YouTube videos teaching creatives how to run businesses. That side project became The Futur — 2.5M subscribers and $4.9M+/year.
$100K ARR ／ 7 years·チーム
情報商材教育🇺🇸 US
Jack Butcher
Visualize Value: How Jack Butcher Went from a Honda Factory to $180K/Month Through Daily Visual Posts
Jack Butcher assembled cars at a Honda factory, talked his way into design school, spent 8 years at agencies, then burned out running his own. In January 2019, he started posting simple visuals on Twitter. Within 18 months: $180K/month.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·ソロ
情報商材教育🇺🇸 US
Dan Koe
Dan Koe: 6 Failed Businesses, Then $3.3M/Year from Writing 2 Hours Per Day
Dan Koe tried fitness YouTube, dropshipping, a Facebook ads agency, and two e-commerce brands — all failed. Then he started writing on Twitter. Within 4 years: $3.3M/year and 3.4M followers.
$100K ARR ／ 4 years·ソロ
情報商材教育🇺🇸 US
Wes Bos
Wes Bos: How a Canadian Developer Built a $10M+ Course Business Teaching JavaScript to 500,000 People
Wes Bos started teaching at a coding bootcamp, then launched "React for Beginners" — 2,300 students in 3 weeks. His free JavaScript30 challenge attracted 754K+ sign-ups. Total: $10M+ in course revenue from Hamilton, Ontario.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·ソロ
情報商材教育🇨🇦 CA
Arvid Kahl
Arvid Kahl Built FeedbackPanda to $55K MRR in 2 Years, Then Sold It
Arvid and his partner Danielle built FeedbackPanda for online ESL teachers, reaching $55K MRR before selling for a life-changing amount.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·チーム
SaaS教育🇩🇪 DE
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Allison Seboldt
How a Political Science major built a $2K/month fantasy politics game
Started as a free MVP in 2018. Two years later, first paid customers. One year after that, $2K revenue months.
$1K MRR ／ 3 years·ソロ
SaaS教育🇺🇸 US
Daniel Vassallo
How I quit my $500K Amazon job and built $1M in revenue through small bets
Left Amazon with 150 Twitter followers. Three years later, $1M in cumulative revenue from info products and community.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·ソロ
情報商材教育🇺🇸 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
Rosie Sherry
How an introvert built a $1.2M/year testing community over 12 years
Started as a free forum in 2007. 12 years later: $1.2M ARR from conferences, memberships, and courses.
$100K ARR ／ 12 years·ソロ
その他教育🇬🇧 GB
Jay Clouse
How a newsletter grew into a $500K/year creator business in 3 years
Started with a blog nobody read. Rebranded to Creator Science and built to $500K/year through newsletter, podcast, and community.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·ソロ
情報商材教育🇺🇸 US
Rosie Sherry
How a community expert built her second $10K/month business teaching what she knows
After building Ministry of Testing to $1.2M, Rosie started Rosieland to teach community building. Reached $10K/month in 2.5 years.
$10K MRR ／ 2 years·ソロ
情報商材教育🇬🇧 GB
Marie Poulin
From YouTube Tips to $40K/Month Teaching Notion
Marie discovered Notion in 2018 and started sharing tips on YouTube. When her audience asked for a course, she launched Notion Mastery to $40K/month.
$10K MRR ／ 2 years·ソロ
情報商材教育🇨🇦 CA
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