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Alex Bouaziz
Deel rebuilt its product in ten days and hit $5,000 a month by demo day
Deel's first product had no buyers. A pivot ten days before Y Combinator's demo day put 290 contractors and $5,000 a month on the board.
$1K MRR ／ 2 months·チーム
SaaS金融🌍 Remote
Andrew Gazdecki
From cold emails to $200,000 ARR in exactly one year, and profit five years later
Andrew Gazdecki seeded a two sided marketplace with cold calls and cold emails, hit $200,000 in ARR exactly one year after launching on Product Hunt, and reported his first profitable year in 2025.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·ソロ
マーケットプレイス金融
Kristo Käärmann
Wise launched with a one pound fee and had customers moving money in seven days
TransferWise went live on 24 January 2011 with a flat one pound fee and one TechCrunch post. Seven days later the founders reported customers moving money between eight countries.
初めての顧客 ／ 7 days·チーム
マーケットプレイス金融🇬🇧 GB
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
Taimur Abdaal
Causal went 18 months with nobody paying, then landed a first customer at $300 a month
Taimur Abdaal and Lukas Köbis quit their jobs in 2019 to build a better spreadsheet. Users called it cool and left. The first paying customer only arrived in early 2021, after they booked 40 demos in a single month and ran a free pilot.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaS金融🇬🇧 GB
Tom Blomfield
How Tom Blomfield got Monzo to a million customers without buying them
Monzo shipped a loss making prepaid card as a stand-in for a bank account, put the first 500 into customers' hands 271 days after founding, and reached a million customers in September 2018 with no meaningful ad spend.
初めての顧客 ／ 9 months·チーム
モバイルアプリ金融🇬🇧 GB
Victor Cardenas
Slash sold a $100 a month card to sneaker resellers and hit $5m ARR in 11 months
Victor Cardenas and Kevin Bai spent a year failing before a handful of sneaker resellers told them exactly what to build and what they would pay. Eleven months after that pivot, Slash was at $5 million in ARR.
$100K ARR ／ 11 months·チーム
SaaS金融🇺🇸 US
Yahya Mokhtarzada
Two years free, then the last chance subscription that saved Truebill
Truebill spent two years as a free app whose founders assumed nobody would pay a subscription to cancel subscriptions. The premium tier they shipped as a last resort converted at 3.5 times what Yahya Mokhtarzada expected.
初めての顧客 ／ 2 years·チーム
モバイルアプリ金融🇺🇸 US
IN
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
KK
Kyle Konstnar
How Kyle Konstnar took HandyPay to $1K MRR in under 60 days
Kyle Konstnar stopped waiting for SEO and landing-page tweaks, went directly to spas, salons, and service businesses, and turned HandyPay into a $1K MRR payments tool in under 60 days.
$1K MRR ／ 2 months·ソロ
SaaS金融Jamaica
SK
Sumit Kumar
how Parqet reached 15k MRR in a year by serving only German investors
Sumit Kumar built a portfolio tracker to scratch his own itch, then kept it deliberately narrow: one country, one language, one currency. That focus took Parqet to €15k MRR in its first year.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaS金融Hamburg, Germany
CH
Crystal Harrison
how a bookkeeper of 25 years shipped a tax tool for freelancers without writing code
Crystal Harrison spent almost 25 years watching freelancers get blindsided by tax bills. She used an AI dev tool to build SnapTax in evenings and weekends, and reached her first 3 paying customers eight weeks after launch.
初めての顧客 ／ 21 days·ソロ
SaaS金融Austin, Texas
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
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
BW
Ben Waterman
how a non-technical finance pro built strabo to $1k mrr with no-code and seo
Ben Waterman left a finance job to build a personal finance dashboard with no coding background, starting in Bubble and reaching $1K MRR with 1,100 monthly active users.
$1K MRR ／ 9 months·チーム
SaaS金融London, UK
Codie Sanchez
Contrarian Thinking: How Codie Sanchez Built a 750K-Subscriber Newsletter and $100M+ Business Portfolio from Scratch
Codie Sanchez went from Goldman Sachs to building Contrarian Thinking — a newsletter that hit 10K subscribers in 30 days. She parlayed that audience into courses, community, and a holding company that now does 9 figures in revenue.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·ソロ
情報商材金融🇺🇸 US
Nick Huber
Sweaty Startup: How Nick Huber Built a $150M Self-Storage Empire from a College Side Hustle
Nick Huber started Storage Squad at Cornell, expanded to 25 college towns, then caught the self-storage bug. He used Twitter to raise $20M+ and scale to 63+ properties worth $150M+, while building Sweaty Startup into a media brand.
$100K ARR ／ 9 years·チーム
その他金融🇺🇸 US
TC
Tim Chen
How Tim Chen Turned $800 and a Credit Card Spreadsheet into a $500M+ Revenue Public Company
Tim Chen invested $800 to build NerdWallet, a credit card comparison site. Obsessive SEO grew it to 20M+ monthly visitors, $500M+ revenue, and an IPO in 2021.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·チーム
その他金融🇺🇸 US
Jesse Mecham
Broke College Student Builds Spreadsheet Into Multi-Million Dollar Business
Jesse Mecham built a simple spreadsheet to manage money with his wife. That spreadsheet became YNAB, now used by millions worldwide.
$10K MRR ／ 5 years·ソロ
SaaS金融🇺🇸 US
Jon Bittner
Astrophysics PhD Builds Expense Splitting App Used by Tens of Millions
Jon Bittner pivoted from astrophysics to building Splitwise, now used by tens of millions worldwide.
$1K MRR ／ 2 years·チーム
モバイルアプリ金融🇺🇸 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
KS
Kirk Simpson
From Near Bankruptcy to $400M Exit: Building Wave Accounting
Kirk Simpson built Wave from a free accounting tool to a $400M acquisition by H&R Block, surviving being 10 days from bankruptcy along the way.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·チーム
SaaS金融🇨🇦 CA
Waseem Daher, Jeff Arnold & Jessica McKellar
Three-Time Founders Built the Best Bookkeeping Service After Oracle Called Out Their Internal Tool
After two successful exits to Oracle and Dropbox, these MIT friends built Pilot into the largest startup-focused bookkeeping firm by doing all the bookkeeping themselves first.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaS金融🇺🇸 US
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