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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
Matteo Franceschetti
Eight Sleep hit its $100,000 goal in under 11 hours, then spent a year learning to manufacture
Matteo Franceschetti and three co-founders put a sleep tracking mattress cover on Indiegogo on 27 January 2015. The $100,000 goal was met the same day, and the campaign closed at $1,231,729 from 5,202 backers.
$100K ARR ／ 4 months·チーム
その他健康・ウェルネス🇺🇸 US
Matthieu Rouif
Two weeks from the first commit to a paid app: how Matthieu Rouif started Photoroom
Matthieu Rouif and Eliot Andres shipped the first version of Photoroom, then called BG, fourteen days after the first line of code, with subscriptions already wired in. It now processes more than 7 billion images a year.
初めての顧客 ／ 14 days·チーム
モバイルアプリデザイン🇫🇷 FR
MB
Mike Beckham
Six months of research, then the first Simple Modern bottle sold
Mike Beckham and two co-founders put $200,000 into a drinkware brand competing with Yeti. The first bottle sold about six months later, and 24 million followed in seven years.
初めての顧客 ／ 7 months·チーム
その他Eコマース🇺🇸 US
MC
Mike Cessario
Mike Cessario spent 14 months building an audience for Liquid Death before there was a can to sell
Liquid Death was a Facebook page and a fake commercial for over a year before it was a product. By the time the first cans shipped in January 2019, the brand already had 100,000 followers and less than $10k of paid media behind it.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 year·チーム
その他Eコマース🇺🇸 US
Moiz Ali
Native sold 60 deodorants before it owned a single one
Moiz Ali launched Native on Product Hunt in July 2015 with no inventory, no factory and a formula bought from an Etsy seller. He placed his first production order only after 60 units were already sold.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 days·ソロ
その他Eコマース🇺🇸 US
Peter Askew
He bought an expired domain for $2,200, then went looking for a farmer
Peter Askew won VidaliaOnions.com at auction with a bid he expected to lose, spent a month working out what to do with it, then partnered with a Georgia onion farmer. They forecast 50 orders in season one and shipped over 600.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 month·チーム
その他Eコマース🇺🇸 US
Sam Corcos
How Levels Health went from a $389 beta to a $12,482 month in 158 days
Sam Corcos publishes Levels Health's monthly investor updates in public, so the early revenue line can be read directly instead of reconstructed. It runs $6,774, $4,507, $7,221, $12,482.
$10K MRR ／ 5 months·チーム
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネス🇺🇸 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
Tanay Kothari
Tanay Kothari killed a three year hardware product and had Wispr Flow selling in 91 days
In July 2024 Tanay Kothari shut down the hardware Wispr had spent three years building and cut the team from 40 people to 5. The dictation app that replaced it was in users' hands six weeks later and selling subscriptions by the end of September.
初めての顧客 ／ 3 months·チーム
SaaS生産性🇺🇸 US
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
Volkan Kaya
Seven months on an MVP, then a free side tool brought Versoly its first paying customer
Volkan Kaya and his co-founder spent seven months building a website builder nobody would use for free. A two week side project that hit number one on Product Hunt finally produced customer number one.
初めての顧客 ／ 7 months·チーム
SaaSデザイン🇬🇧 GB
Will Ahmed
Will Ahmed spent three years building WHOOP before its first hundred users
Will Ahmed asked athletes what they wanted and heard one thing, asked what their problems were and heard another, then spent three years building for the second answer.
初めての顧客 ／ 3 years·チーム
その他健康・ウェルネス🇺🇸 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
Eric Smith
How AutoShorts.ai reached $40K MRR with faceless-video automation
Eric Smith built AutoShorts.ai from a personal need for automated short-form videos, got the first paying subscriber on February 1, and reached $20K MRR by April 27 before the source reported $40K MRR on May 13.
$10K MRR ／ 4 months·ソロ
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇺🇸 US
Arthur Yuzbashev
How Arthur turned six Reddit bans into a $6K MRR marketing SaaS
After two failed products and six Reddit bans, Arthur Yuzbashev tracked subreddit behavior in a spreadsheet, turned the pattern into MediaFast, and grew it to roughly $6K MRR with organic distribution.
$1K MRR ／ 3 months·ソロ
SaaSマーケティングBarcelona, Spain
AE
Antonio Escudero
how Antonio Escudero grew RankInPublic to $17k MRR by turning launches into SEO tournaments
Antonio Escudero built RankInPublic into a free tournament launch platform, then turned the same founder audience into a $17k+ MRR SEO directory-submission business.
初めての顧客 ／ 2 months·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇪🇸 ES
Cedric Roberge
How Cedric Roberge took Pep AI to $60K MRR by turning GLP-1 tracking chaos into a subscription app
Cedric Roberge found a fast-growing GLP-1 and peptide tracking niche, launched Pep AI quickly, then combined Reddit validation with creator-led distribution to reach a reported $60K MRR.
$10K MRR ／ 1 month·ソロ
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネス🇺🇸 US
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
AK
Adam Knorr & Ben A. Wise
how Adam Knorr and Ben Wise built InfluenceLab to $5.6k MRR by coaching one narrow niche
Adam Knorr turned years of manual LinkedIn editing for financial advisors into InfluenceLab, a $49/month AI coaching SaaS that reached $5,651 MRR from 119 paying users by selling to a niche he already served.
$1K MRR ／ 9 days·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
NS
Neel Seth
How Neel Seth turned manual Reddit outreach into ReplyDaddy's $1.5K MRR co-pilot
Neel Seth built ReplyDaddy from his own Reddit distribution problem, kept humans in control of every reply, and turned an AI-assisted MVP into a reported $1.5K MRR product.
初めての顧客 ／ 12 days·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇮🇳 IN
ED
Emanuele Di Pietro
How Emanuele Di Pietro turned a midnight Codex remote into Remodex's $10K first month
Emanuele Di Pietro turned a midnight challenge to control Codex from iPhone into Remodex, a local-first open-source remote that reached about $10K revenue in its first month.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 days·ソロ
モバイルアプリ開発者ツールNaples, Italy
Christian Rac & Braylin Byrd
How two Division I track athletes built 3AK Track & Field to verified $10K MRR
Christian Rac and Braylin Byrd turned a 150K-follower track audience into a subscription training app, building with Rork and ChatGPT instead of custom code and later showing $10,045 MRR on TrustMRR.
$10K MRR ／ 8 months·チーム
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネス🇺🇸 US
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