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Ramsri Goutham Golla
How Questgen.ai became a $4K MRR slow-cooked AI quiz SaaS
Ramsri Goutham Golla turned years of AI question-generation research, Medium posts, GitHub code, and a Udemy course into Questgen.ai, a solo edtech SaaS that reached about $4K MRR without a viral launch.
初めての顧客 ／ 2 years·ソロ
SaaS教育Hyderabad, India
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Kylan O'Connor, Jayden Francis, Justin Rausch & Parker May
How RidePal turned a niche mountain-biking app into 35 paying Android customers on day one
RidePal did not start with a broad fitness app. The team built directly for mountain bikers, shared beta versions in rider communities, and saw 35 paying Android customers on launch day.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 days·チーム
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネスSan Francisco, United States
Alex Nguyen
How Feynman AI reached $6K MRR by turning lectures into study workflows
Alex Nguyen built Feynman AI after seeing an international student struggle to follow lectures abroad. A one-month web MVP, fast user feedback, TikTok-style social distribution and App Store search took the solo education app to over $6K MRR in four months.
$1K MRR ／ 4 months·ソロ
モバイルアプリ教育Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Abhishek Chakravarty and Davis Baer
How Youform reached $18K MRR by becoming the affordable Typeform alternative
Abhishek Chakravarty spotted Typeform users looking for a cheaper form builder, sold his adjacent chatbot product, and built Youform into an $18K MRR freemium SaaS with pricing people could understand.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaS生産性India / USA
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Jason Zigelbaum
How Zigpoll reached $125K MRR by owning Shopify feedback surveys as a solo founder
Jason Zigelbaum turned ecommerce feedback pain into Zigpoll, stayed solo, and compounded to about $125K MRR by doubling down on Shopify merchants, agency operators, pricing fit, and customer-led product requests.
初めての顧客 ／ 7 days·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
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Giacomo "Peldi" Guilizzoni
Selling wireframing software before the official launch
Peldi Guilizzoni launched Balsamiq as a one-person wireframing tool, got a sale before launch, and passed $100K in total revenue in less than five months.
初めての顧客 ／ 0 days·ソロ
SaaSデザインBologna, Italy
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Michele Hansen
A side-project API that only needed to cover server costs
Michele and Mathias Hansen launched Geocodio as a side project in January 2014. A roughly $30 first month covered their small DigitalOcean server bill and proved strangers would pay.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 month·チーム
API / 開発者ツール開発者ツール🇺🇸 US
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Goutham Jay
From 100 followers to $1K MRR with a testimonial SaaS
Goutham Jay began building Famewall in public in February 2022, won the first paying customer in March, and crossed $1K MRR in September 2023.
$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇮🇳 IN
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Justus Mulli
Three fast AI launches, then $1K MRR with SQL for data teams
Justus Mulli shipped BlazeSQL after two abandoned AI products, won the first subscriber two months after launch, and crossed $1K MRR within about six months.
$1K MRR ／ 6 months·ソロ
SaaSAI / ML🇩🇪 DE
Dan Willoughby
How a broken Slack install button turned into $2K MRR
Dan Willoughby left Tellspin as a landing page with a broken Slack install button, then built the MVP only after users hunted down his email. One year later it had 100 customers and $2,033 MRR.
$1K MRR ／ 9 months·ソロ
SaaS生産性Utah, USA
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Chetan
How Chetan grew Schedo to $5K MRR after a $12 first customer
Chetan built Schedo because scheduling tools felt dated, validated it through communities and his own meetings, and turned a local window-cleaning customer paying $12/month into proof that the product could sell.
初めての顧客 ／ 6 months·ソロ
SaaS生産性🇮🇳 IN
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Yasha Boroumand
how Yasha Boroumand dogfooded FlowHunt to $10k/mo
After two failed URLSlab attempts, Yasha Boroumand turned FlowHunt into an AI-agent builder, used the product to automate its own SEO engine, and grew to $10k/month with $6k recurring subscriptions plus $4k one-off credits.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 month·チーム
SaaSAI / ML🇸🇰 SK
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Alex Rainey & Mike Heap
how My AskAI used $5k pre-sales to reach $14k MRR in months
Alex Rainey and Mike Heap tested My AskAI with a $99 pre-sale before the full product existed, generated about $5k from 50+ buyers, then used Product Hunt, word of mouth, and Google search to reach about $14k MRR by May 2023.
$10K MRR ／ 4 months·チーム
SaaSAI / ML🇬🇧 GB
Fernando Pessagno
Turning a ten-day build-in-public challenge into a $5K MRR creator tool
Fernando Pessagno built aiCarousels in a 10-day public challenge, got five paying users on launch day, and later grew the AI carousel maker to $5K MRR.
$1K MRR ／ 6 months·ソロ
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇸🇪 SE
Dan Shipper
how dan shipper's newsletter audience funded a $1.2m suite of ai apps
Dan Shipper grew Every from a paid newsletter into four in-house AI products doing about $1.2M ARR, using the audience he built as the launch channel for everything that followed.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·チーム
SaaS生産性New York, USA
Nico Jeannen
how nico jeannen grew talknotes from an idea to a $200k exit in a year
Nico Jeannen built TalkNotes after a bad experience with Google Docs transcription, soft-launched it on Twitter, hit number one on Product Hunt, and sold it for $200,000 about a year later.
$1K MRR ／ 3 months·ソロ
SaaS生産性Bangkok, Thailand
Nicolas Cole & Dickie Bush
how Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush grew Write With AI to $400k a year
A side project to catch the ChatGPT wave became a paid Substack newsletter doing roughly $30k a month, built on quarterly product drops and a founding member tier.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
情報商材教育🇺🇸 US
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Ethan Tian
how textideo's solo founder reached $18k a month with one ai content editor
Ethan Tian bootstrapped Textideo, an all-in-one AI editor for video, copy, and illustrations, to a self-reported $18,000 a month by listing everywhere, shipping constantly, and letting creators dictate the roadmap.
$10K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSコンテンツ制作
Sebastian Volkis
how a nontechnical founder got 11,300 ChatIQ users in his first month
A nontechnical founder used a six-month YouTube audience and a no-code Bubble MVP to launch an AI support chatbot to 11,300 users and roughly £3,500 MRR in 30 days.
$10K MRR ／ 2 months·ソロ
SaaSAI / ML🇬🇧 GB
Jack Friks
how jack friks built post bridge to $11k mrr by undercutting bloated schedulers
Tired of paying for overpriced social schedulers, Jack Friks shipped his own simple tool in about a month and built it in public to roughly $11k MRR.
$100K ARR ／ 7 months·ソロ
SaaSマーケティングOshawa, Ontario, Canada
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John Rush
how john rush turned an internal seo tool into a $1m arr ai agent
John Rush built SEObot to automate SEO for his own 24 projects, then opened it up and reached roughly $1M ARR within a year of its public launch.
$100K ARR ／ 3 months·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🌍 Remote
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
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Berk Elmas
how sketch logo ai reached $8.4k in four months on seo and a product hunt launch
A bootstrapped AI logo tool that hit $8.4k in four months through a Product Hunt launch and a relentless SEO and backlink grind.
$1K MRR ／ 1 month·チーム
SaaSデザイン🇹🇷 TR
Eric Alli
how a solo theme maker stacked productized services to reach $20k mrr
Eric Alli sold themes for over a decade, watched WordPress sales dry up, then rebuilt on Ghost and reached $20k a month, with custom build services making up three quarters of it.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·ソロ
情報商材デザインSan Francisco, USA
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