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Tyler Tringas
How I built a $20K MRR micro-SaaS while traveling
I built Storemapper while traveling as a digital nomad. It started as a simple store locator widget and grew into a stable micro-SaaS business. The...
$480K/年·$1K MRR ／ 6 months·ソロ
SaaSEコマース🇺🇸 US
Adriaan van Rossum
Privacy-First Analytics: From Tenerife Idea to $100K ARR
Adriaan van Rossum came up with the idea for Simple Analytics while on holiday in Tenerife. He wanted to build a privacy-first analytics tool as fast...
$813K/年·$100K ARR ／ 2 years·ソロ
SaaS開発者ツール🇳🇱 NL
Courtland Allen
Indie HackersHow I built Indie Hackers and sold it to Stripe
I was frustrated with how hard it was to find real information about starting an online business. Everyone talked about raising venture capital, but I...
$1K MRR ／ 5 months·ソロ
マーケットプレイスコンテンツ制作🇺🇸 US
Ben Tossell
From Product Hunt employee to building and selling Makerpad
After leaving Product Hunt, I wanted to teach people how to build without code - the skills I had learned myself. The Launch I launched Makerpad...
$1K MRR ／ 1 month·ソロ
情報商材開発者ツール🇺🇸 US
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Maciej Cupial
From Bankruptcy to $100K ARR: A 2.5 Year Struggle
Maciej Cupial from Poland had a background as a programmer and entrepreneur. After a challenging 2.5 years building Calendesk, he finally reached $100...
$179K/年·$100K ARR ／ 2 years·チーム
SaaS生産性🇵🇱 PL
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Mustafa Ergisi
Data Analyst Builds AI2SQL to $1K MRR in 15 Months
Mustafa Ergisi, a former data analyst from Istanbul, was frustrated spending countless hours optimizing SQL queries manually. With a background in mac...
$100K/年·$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
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Mike Perham
How I built a $1M+ business selling open source software
Sidekiq started as an open source project in 2012. I was frustrated with existing Ruby background job solutions and built something better. The Ope...
$2.9M/年·$100K ARR ／ 4 years·ソロ
SaaS開発者ツール🇺🇸 US
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Oleg Shchegolev
Started 2008 with 2 tools, bootstrapped for a decade before one VC round, then NYSE
We started Semrush in 2008 with just 2 tools. We bootstrapped for about a decade, then raised a single $37-40M institutional round in 2018 before goin...
$1.9Bで売却·$100K ARR ／ 15 years·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
Sahil Lavingia
From weekend project to $10M+ in creator payouts
I built the first version of Gumroad in a weekend while working at Pinterest. The idea was simple: let anyone sell anything with just a link. The W...
$17.8M/年·$10K MRR ／ 2 months·ソロ
マーケットプレイスEコマース🇺🇸 US
Marcus Sheridan
$35M in sales from a single article answering "how much does a fiberglass pool cost"
One single article answering "how much does a fiberglass pool cost?" has generated $35M in sales as of February 2026. This became the "They Ask, You A...
$100K ARR ／ 9 years·チーム
エージェンシー / サービスマーケティング🇺🇸 US
AJ Ladwal
How I built Carrd to $1M+ ARR as a solo founder
Carrd started as a side project in 2016. I wanted to create the simplest possible way to build one-page websites. The Concept After years of bui...
$2M/年·初めての顧客 ／ 0 days·ソロ
SaaS開発者ツール🇺🇸 US
Eric Bandholz
Started with $30 Shopify subscription, 1.6M YouTube subscribers
Beardbrand started with just a $30 Shopify subscription. Now we have 1.6M YouTube subscribers. Authenticity beats production quality. $30 Start...
$10M/年·$100K ARR ／ 2 years·チーム
その他Eコマース🇺🇸 US
Jason Cohen
4th bootstrapped company to $1M+, "A Smart Bear" blog built massive authority
WP Engine is my 4th bootstrapped company to hit $1M+. My "A Smart Bear" blog built massive authority that attracted customers and investors. Serial...
$400M/年·$100K ARR ／ 8 years·チーム
SaaS開発者ツール🇺🇸 US
Des Traynor
Wrote 93 of first 100 blog posts, content is majority of acquisition
I personally wrote 93 of Intercom's first 100 blog posts. Content became the majority of our customer acquisition. Now at $300M+ revenue. Founder-L...
$382M/年·$100K ARR ／ 7 years·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇮🇪 IE
Brian Halligan
HubSpot
Coined "inbound marketing", built $38B company from 3 customers
We coined the term "inbound marketing" and built HubSpot into a $38B company. Started with just 3 customers. Earned attention by being helpful. Cre...
$2.9B/年·$100K ARR ／ 10 years·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
Arvid Kahl
From $0 to $55K MRR in 2 years, then a life-changing exit
My partner Danielle was an online English teacher. Every day after teaching, she'd spend hours writing personalized feedback for each student. I watch...
$10K MRR ／ 2 years·チーム
SaaS教育🇩🇪 DE
Brian Dean
Failed with first 5 businesses, created Skyscraper Technique, acquired by Semrush
I failed with my first 5 online businesses before Backlinko worked. Created the "Skyscraper Technique" which became an industry standard. Eventually a...
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·ソロ
情報商材教育🇺🇸 US
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Steli Efti
Found content niche where nobody was writing about sales
Nobody in Silicon Valley was writing about sales. We found that gap and owned it. Switched to recording voice instead of writing to remove friction....
$40M/年·$100K ARR ／ 5 years·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
Nick Francis
Long ball growth strategy: $40 CAC, recouped in the first month
Help Scout's "long ball" growth strategy kept CAC at $40, recouped in the customer's first month. 10,000+ customers with only about $6.8M raised ($800...
$30M/年·$10K MRR ／ 2 years·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
Rand Fishkin
Mom and son startup built Whiteboard Friday into multi-million ARR
Moz started as a mom and son startup. Whiteboard Friday was our worst performing content for 2-3 years, then became our 1 growth driver. The White...
$100K ARR ／ 8 years·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
Tim Soulo
CMO who led Ahrefs marketing to $100M+ ARR with zero sales team
Tim Soulo joined Ahrefs as CMO (Ahrefs was founded by Dmytro Gerasymenko) and led the marketing strategy that grew the company to $100M+ ARR with no s...
$150M/年·$100K ARR ／ 10 years·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇸🇬 SG
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Damon Chen
Building a $10K MRR testimonial tool by building in public
I built Testimonial.to after experiencing the pain of collecting and displaying customer testimonials for my previous projects. Every founder knows so...
$2.4M/年·$10K MRR ／ 11 months·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
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Leo Widrich
Wrote around 150 guest posts in 9 months to reach 100K users
I wrote around 150 guest posts in 9 months, close to one every other day. Content drove 70%+ of Buffer's signups and we hit 100K users in 10 months....
$25M/年·$10K MRR ／ 10 months·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇦🇹 AT
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Alex Turnbull
Journey to $100K blog series with radical transparency built $5M ARR
Our "Journey to $100K" blog series with radical transparency got featured in 100+ publications and built Groove to $5M ARR. Radical Transparency...
$5M/年·$100K ARR ／ 5 years·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
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