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Ana Vershinina
FlapTrip took eleven months of nights and weekends before its first three paying users
Ana Vershinina and two co founders built a travel planner on evenings and weekends around full time jobs. Eleven days after launch: 700 installs and three PRO subscribers.
初めての顧客 ／ 12 months·チーム
モバイルアプリ旅行Serbia
Brian Chesky
Three airbeds paid the rent, then Airbnb went a year with no traction
Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had paying guests within a week of the idea because a design conference had sold out every hotel in San Francisco. Turning that weekend into a company took a year of failed launches, credit card debt and cereal money.
初めての顧客 ／ 7 days·チーム
マーケットプレイス旅行San Francisco, USA
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Jesse Neugarten
Jesse Neugarten charged from day one and reached $1,500 a month in six months
A non technical founder with a full time job built a flight deals email list on Instapage and MailChimp, priced it at $1, $9 and $19 a month, and had 100 paying members by the end of month one.
$1K MRR ／ 6 months·ソロ
その他旅行🇺🇸 US
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Johannes Reck
Five bookings in two years, three from his mother, then GetYourGuide started over
Two years of building a peer to peer student guide platform produced exactly five bookings, three of them from Johannes Reck's mother. Then a Swiss rafting company called.
初めての顧客 ／ 2 years·チーム
マーケットプレイス旅行🇩🇪 DE
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Marcus Rader
Free beer for Airbnb hosts: how Marcus Rader took four years to get Hostaway to $100k MRR
Investors told Marcus Rader the short term rental niche was too small. He printed a t-shirt reading Free Beer for Airbnb Hosts, stood on a Toronto street corner for an hour, and spent the next four years getting Hostaway to $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue.
$100K ARR ／ 4 years·チーム
SaaS旅行🇨🇦 CA
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Tavishi Gupta
she quit Microsoft to build an ai travel planner and hit 12,000 trips planned
Tavishi Gupta left a salaried job with no backup plan, built Tern from Airbnbs, and grew it to 12,000+ trips planned and paying users in 9 countries with $0 spent on marketing.
$100 MRR ／ 2 years·ソロ
SaaS旅行San Francisco, California
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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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Madhu Pattarambil
how a chemical engineer built a free AI travel planner in 14 days
Madhu Pattarambil, a Sydney chemical engineer with no startup background, shipped a free AI travel app in 17 languages in two weeks, funded entirely by travel affiliate commissions.
初めての顧客 ／ 14 days·ソロ
その他旅行Sydney, Australia
Matt Kepnes
From Hospital Admin to 7-Figure Travel Empire: The Nomadic Matt Story
Matt Kepnes quit his hospital admin job after a trip to Thailand opened his eyes. His travel blog became Nomadic Matt — one of the world's largest travel media brands with over 1 million monthly readers.
$100K ARR ／ 4 years·ソロ
情報商材旅行🌍 Remote
Scott Keyes
From One $130 Flight to 2 Million Subscribers: The Going Story
In December 2013, Scott Keyes found a $130 roundtrip flight from New York to Milan. His friends wanted the next one. Three years later, that email list became Going — a subscription service with 2 million members.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaS旅行🇺🇸 US
Andrew Henderson
How a 22-Year-Old's Tax Bill Built a Global Nomad Advisory Empire
Andrew Henderson built a radio broadcasting empire at 22, then faced a 43% tax bill that changed his worldview. He founded Nomad Capitalist to share what he discovered — and built a 60-person global advisory brand.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·ソロ
エージェンシー / サービス旅行🌍 Remote
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Peter Xu & Harry Yu
Twin Brothers Build Top-Ranked Travel Planning App
Peter Xu and Harry Yu (twin brothers) leveraged their Stripe and Google experience to build Wanderlog, now top-ranked for travel planning.
$1K MRR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaS旅行🇺🇸 US
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Abraham Burak
Digital Nomad Builds $1B eSIM Marketplace to Solve Travel Connectivity
Abraham Burak experienced roaming bill shocks as a digital nomad, then built Airalo - now valued at $1B+ with 20M+ users.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·チーム
マーケットプレイス旅行🇺🇸 US
Scott Keyes
From $130 Flight to $320K/Month: The Going Story
Scott found a $130 round-trip to Milan and turned his flight-finding hobby into a 2M+ subscriber business.
$100K ARR ／ 5 years·チーム
SaaS旅行🇺🇸 US
Jack Sheldon
Jack's Flight Club: From Hobby to 1M+ Members
Jack turned his personal flight hacking hobby into the UK's leading cheap flight service.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·チーム
SaaS旅行🇬🇧 GB
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Bernie Tschirren & Michael Cameron
Rome2Rio: From Side Project to $40M Exit by Solving "How Do I Get There?"
Two ex-Microsoft engineers built the definitive travel search for getting from A to B anywhere in the world.
$10K MRR ／ 4 years·チーム
SaaS旅行🇦🇺 AU
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Mikael Robertsson
Flightradar24: How Two Aviation Geeks Built the World's Flight Tracker
A hobby project tracking aircraft in Sweden became the #1 flight tracking app in 130+ countries.
$10K MRR ／ 8 years·チーム
モバイルアプリ旅行🇸🇪 SE
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Gareth Williams, Barry Smith & Bonamy Grimes
Skyscanner: From Ski Trip Frustration to £1.4 Billion Exit
Three friends frustrated by expensive ski flights built Skyscanner on the side, bootstrapped it to £1,000/day, then sold for £1.4 billion.
$100K ARR ／ 5 years·チーム
SaaS旅行🇬🇧 GB
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Peter Xu & Harry Yu
Twin Brothers Built the Top Trip Planner App After Working at Stripe and Google
Peter and Harry Yu, twin brothers from Yale, built Wanderlog into the top-ranked trip planning app after previous bootstrapped travel ventures and stints at Stripe and Google.
$10K MRR ／ 2 years·チーム
モバイルアプリ旅行🇺🇸 US
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Michael Cameron & Bernie Tschirren
How Two Ex-Microsoft Engineers Built Rome2rio to a $40M Exit
Michael Cameron and Bernie Tschirren built Rome2rio from their parents' living room to 10M+ monthly visitors before selling to Omio.
$100K ARR ／ 8 years·チーム
SaaS旅行🇦🇺 AU
Frederic Lalonde
How Hopper Pivoted from Blog Aggregator to $1B+ Travel App
Frederic Lalonde built Hopper through a scary pivot - from travel blog aggregator to AI-powered booking app with $1B+ in sales.
$100K ARR ／ 10 years·チーム
モバイルアプリ旅行🇨🇦 CA
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Aktarer Zaman
How a 22-Year-Old Built Skiplagged and Beat United Airlines in Court
Aktarer Zaman built Skiplagged at 20, got sued by United Airlines and Orbitz, and won - now helping millions find cheaper flights.
$10K MRR ／ 2 years·ソロ
SaaS旅行🇺🇸 US
Varun Khona
How Headout Grew from 0 to $130M Revenue in Under 4 Years
Varun Khona built Headout from a 500 Startups incubation to $130M+ revenue, pioneering the managed experiences model.
$100K ARR ／ 4 years·チーム
マーケットプレイス旅行🇺🇸 US
Pieter Levels
How I turned a spreadsheet into a $2M+/year business as a solo founder
In 2013, I sold all my possessions, packed a backpack and a laptop, and flew to Thailand to begin my digital nomad life. I was once a lost musician ea...
$10K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaS旅行🌍 Remote
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