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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
AP
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
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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 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
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
Bryce Adams
Bryce Adams quit Automattic to build Metorik and had 10 paying customers in four months
Bryce Adams left a job he loved at Automattic in August 2016 to build the WooCommerce reporting tool nobody else would build. Ten paying stores signed up four months later.
$1K MRR ／ 12 months·ソロ
SaaSEコマース🇦🇺 AU
CI
Cedric Isubol
Fourteen paying users in two weeks, from Facebook groups alone
Cedric Isubol built an AI calorie tracker for the home cooked local food that western nutrition databases do not recognize. Two weeks after the Google Play launch it had 14 paying subscribers and $35 in monthly recurring revenue, with no ad spend and one marketing channel.
初めての顧客 ／ 14 days·ソロ
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネス🇵🇭 PH
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
Chris Meade
Chris Meade emptied a $7,000 401k into volleyball nets and sold them out of a trunk
Chris Meade pulled about $7,000 out of his 401k, spent all of it on inventory, and sold nets off the sand on Venmo. Eight years later CROSSNET had passed $35 million in sales and was acquired.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
その他Eコマース🇺🇸 US
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
DK
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
Derek Sivers
The favor for a friend that became the largest independent music store online
A friend asked Derek Sivers to sell his CD too. He said sure, charged $35 to add an album and $4 per sale, and CD Baby was profitable in its second month.
$100 MRR ／ 1 month·ソロ
マーケットプレイスEコマース🇺🇸 US
Derrick Reimer
Derrick Reimer hit $10K MRR with SavvyCal one year after the first line of code
After walking away from a Slack competitor he had built for a year, Derrick Reimer took on Calendly instead and passed $10K MRR twelve months after starting to write SavvyCal.
$10K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaS生産性🇺🇸 US
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Dom Maskell
Dom Maskell sold 1,500 PDF running plans before Runna was an app
Ben Parker and Dom Maskell quit their jobs in June 2021 to sell personalised running plans as emailed PDFs. The app came eighteen months later, and Strava bought the company in April 2025.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネス🇬🇧 GB
Eric Migicovsky
Beeper charged $10 a month from its first public day
Eric Migicovsky named Beeper in public in July 2020 and launched it on Hacker News 195 days later as a paid chat app at $10 a month. Automattic bought it in April 2024.
初めての顧客 ／ 7 months·チーム
SaaS生産性🇺🇸 US
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
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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
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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
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
Julian Hearn
Two orders on day one: how Julian Hearn started Huel from his garage
Huel's website went live with no buzz at all and took two orders on the first day. Julian Hearn packed them himself, and says revenue reached £9 million two years later.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 days·チーム
その他健康・ウェルネス🇬🇧 GB
Justin Mares
Justin Mares took nearly $500 in two weeks before Kettle & Fire had any bone broth to sell
Before quitting his job in April 2014, Justin Mares put a $29.99 bone broth page online with a PayPal checkout and about $50 of Bing ads. Two weeks later he had taken nearly $500 for a product that did not exist.
$10K MRR ／ 1 year·チーム
その他Eコマース🇺🇸 US
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