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Vasco Monteiro
how Vasco Monteiro grew Journalist AI to $70k mrr with YouTube
After selling his SEO marketplace Vettted, Vasco Monteiro built Journalist AI and grew it past $70k MRR in under a year, with almost all of the growth coming from YouTube.
$10K MRR ／ 5 months·チーム
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇵🇹 PT
JB
John Brewton
how john brewton grew a quiet substack into a $200k business in six months
John Brewton spent nine months publishing to barely a thousand readers, then a single proof post timed to a small coaching offer flipped his Substack into a six-stream business on track for $200k.
$10K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
情報商材コンテンツ制作
Elliot Sowersby
the WooCommerce plugin that earned almost nothing for 3 years, then became a full-time business
Elliot Sowersby spent three years building Coupon Affiliates with little to show for it. A decade later it is his biggest source of income and plugins make up over 90% of his revenue.
$10K MRR ／ 8 years·ソロ
SaaSEコマースYorkshire, United Kingdom
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
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
AF
Andrew Fennell
how a recruiter grew standout cv to £40k mrr on seo alone
Andrew Fennell knew nothing about SEO when he launched StandOut CV. A decade of slow, compounding content and careful link building took the CV builder past 23,000 paying customers and £40K MRR with no paid ads.
$100K ARR ／ 5 years·ソロ
SaaS生産性🇬🇧 GB
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
Juanjo Valiño
how juanjo valiño turned a repeated-code problem into a $15k month with wrapfast
After shipping 15+ iOS apps, Juanjo bundled the boring repeated code into a SwiftUI boilerplate called WrapFast, made $750 on day one, and rode a Black Friday surge to his first $15k month.
$10K MRR ／ 9 months·ソロ
その他開発者ツールGalicia, Spain
MN
Mako Nguyen
how mako nguyen took robopost to a self-reported $55k mrr in a year on meta ads
A solo software engineer in Japan built a social media scheduler in two months, then leaned hard on Meta Ads to grow Robopost to a self-reported $55k MRR in its first year.
$100K ARR ／ 7 months·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇯🇵 JP
JI
James Ivings
how leave me alone reached $10k mrr by unsubscribing people from spam in the open
James Ivings and Danielle Johnson launched a one-click email unsubscribe tool on Product Hunt in 2019, then grew it to around $10k MRR while publishing every metric on a public open-startup page.
$10K MRR ／ 7 years·チーム
SaaS生産性🌍 Remote
Ramon Berrios
how ramon berrios bootstrapped castmagic to $1m arr in under 9 months
Ramon Berrios and his co-founders built Castmagic to fix their own podcast workflow, then bootstrapped it to $1M ARR in under nine months with no outside money.
$100K ARR ／ 7 months·チーム
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇺🇸 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 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
Sina Sinry
how sina sinry built flibbo to $55k mrr without writing code
A former Shopify dropshipper wrapped top AI models into one mobile app and grew it to around $55K MRR and 500K+ users, all without coding himself.
$100K ARR ／ 3 months·ソロ
モバイルアプリコンテンツ制作MENA region
RW
Richard Wang
how richard reached 30k mrr with a reddit marketing tool
After shutting down an AI product nobody wanted, Richard Wang spent a month answering Reddit marketing questions, gathered 300 people who shared the same pain, and only then built Leadmore AI. More than ten of them paid in week one.
$100K ARR ／ 3 months·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング
Ruslan Leteyski
Checkout X
Bootstrapping Checkout X to €600k MRR before Shopify shut it down
Ruslan Leteyski turned a workaround built for a doomed online pharmacy into a one-page Shopify checkout that reached 6,000 merchants and €600k MRR, all without ads or the App Store.
$100K ARR ／ 3 months·ソロ
SaaSEコマースSofia, Bulgaria
MD
Mat De Sousa
how mat de sousa bootstrapped widebundle to $25k mrr as a student
After three failed Shopify apps, an engineering student built a bundling app in two weeks and grew it to $25,134 MRR in under a year with no paid ads.
$100K ARR ／ 10 months·ソロ
SaaSEコマース🇫🇷 FR
OZ
Orel Zilberman
after 600 days and zero dollars, writestack became a $110k a year tool for substack writers
Orel Zilberman burned through roughly $70,000 and a dozen failed products before a tool for Substack creators finally started paying. Here is how he got there.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇮🇱 IL
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
PA
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
AV
Aurelio Volle
how a lawyer and a developer bootstrapped wp umbrella to $110k mrr
Aurelio Volle and his co-founder lived on French unemployment support while reinvesting every euro into WP Umbrella, a WordPress maintenance tool that grew to $110K MRR without outside funding.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaS開発者ツール🇫🇷 FR
Gil Hildebrand
how Gil Hildebrand bootstrapped Subscribr to $10k MRR in 100 days
After an unprofitable VC-backed crypto startup, Gil Hildebrand picked a calmer market, presold 50 lifetime deals to a 1,000-person email list, and reached $10k MRR within 100 days of launching Subscribr.
$100K ARR ／ 3 months·チーム
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇺🇸 US
Nic Polotnianko
how nic polotnianko grew blogtopin to $15k mrr after four years of failed products
A Ukrainian software engineer spent four years shipping products that went nowhere, then built a Pinterest automation tool to scratch his own itch and grew it past $15k MRR.
$10K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSマーケティングDnipro, Ukraine
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
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