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16 Co-Founderss who succeeded with Product Hunt
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Stories
16
Avg Time
3 years
Fastest
1 days
Solo
0%
Top growth channel
Product Hunt (16)
Marie Martens
Built a $3M ARR form builder with 800,000+ users and an 8-person team
Tally grew to more than 800,000 creators and $3M ARR with an 8-person team (4 full-time, 4 part-time). The secret? Product-led growth with viral loops...
$5M/yr·$100K ARR in 5 years·Team
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Justin Jackson
From $33 to $30K MRR in 1 year - achieved 5-year goal in 12 months
Transistor went from our first $33 customer to $30K MRR in just one year. We achieved what we thought would take 5 years. Product Hunt Success W...
$4.5M/yr·$10K MRR in 1 year·Team
SaaSContent creation🇺🇸 US
Grant Lee
60K users in 8 months, then 60K more in 1 week after adding AI
Gamma grew steadily to 60K users over about 2.5 years. Then we added AI, and over the following 2.5 years grew to 70M users. Now at $100M ARR. The...
$100M/yr·$100K ARR in 6 years·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Joe Thomas
Near bankruptcy to 10M users after pivoting based on Product Hunt launch
We were near bankruptcy when we launched on Product Hunt. 3,000 signups in 24 hours saved the company. We pivoted from usability tests to video record...
sold for $975M·$100K ARR in 4 years·Team
SaaSContent creation🇺🇸 US
Ivan Zhao
Rebuilt the product 4 times, moved to Japan, now $567M ARR
We rebuilt Notion 4 times before it worked. At one point, we moved to Japan to rewrite the entire tech stack. Now we're at $567M ARR with 30M+ users....
$600M/yr·$100K ARR in 8 years·Team
SaaSProductivity🇺🇸 US
AB
Alex Belogubov
From Failed Launch to $10K MRR and 6-Figure Exit
Alex initially launched Replyze in October 2023 on Product Hunt, but it was unsuccessful. Ready to sell for $20-25K, he received an interesting offer....
$10K MRR in 8 months·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Robin Vander Heyden
ManyPixels
Unlimited Design for $359/Month: Productized Service to $60K MRR
Robin didn't have a job and decided to launch a productized service offering unlimited design work for a fixed fee per month. Rapid Growth He gr...
$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
Agency / serviceDesign🇺🇸 US
Mubashar Iqbal
How building 120+ side projects led to a viral hit with 14M page views
After 80+ failed projects, one finally went viral. 4 million page views in 4 weeks, $4K/month in ad revenue, then sold.
$1K MRR in 2 months·Team
OtherEducation🇺🇸 US
GM
Guillaume Moubeche
Guillaume Moubeche Bootstrapped Lemlist from $0 to $250K ARR in 365 Days
Guillaume and two technical co-founders built Lemlist, reaching $250K ARR in one year with $0 in funding through Product Hunt and AppSumo.
$50M/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
SaaSMarketing🇫🇷 FR
Joshua Xu & Wayne Liang
HeyGen: From Snapchat Engineer to 40K Enterprise Customers with AI Video
Joshua Xu left Snapchat to build HeyGen, growing to 40K+ enterprise customers and $35M+ revenue with AI-generated video avatars.
$57.5M/yr·$100K ARR in 3 years·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Michael Mignano
Democratizing Podcasting: How Anchor Became Spotify for Creators
Michael Mignano built Anchor to make podcast creation free and easy. The platform now powers one-third of all new podcasts and was acquired by Spotify.
sold for $154M·First customer in 1 days·Team
SaaSContent creation🇺🇸 US
Nadav Keyson
Riverside: From a Failed Debating Platform to $80M in Funding — How Two Brothers Built the Go-To Podcast Recording Tool
Nadav and Gideon Keyson, two Dutch-Israeli brothers, failed with a live debating platform nobody watched. They pivoted to remote podcast recording, launched on Product Hunt with 2 paying customers, and landed Hillary Clinton within 6 months.
$31.2M/yr·$10K MRR in 2 years·Team
SaaSContent creation🇺🇸 US
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.
$120K/yr·$10K MRR in 7 years·Team
SaaSProductivity🌍 Remote
Kirill Shevchenko
how Kirill Shevchenko bootstrapped Roundups into a profitable AI side project
After years of failed AI products, Kirill Shevchenko co-founded Roundups, an AI content tool for affiliate marketers, and turned it profitable in a year by pairing a Product Hunt launch with an AppSumo lifetime deal, all while keeping his day job.
$1K MRR in 5 months·Team
SaaSMarketing
NM
Nunzio Martinello
Akiflow won Product Hunt, scrapped the product, then reached $1M ARR
Akiflow's first product was a command bar that made other task apps faster. The founders scrapped it, rebuilt around one inbox and one calendar, and hit $1M ARR in March 2024.
$2.5M/yr·$100K ARR in 4 years·Team
SaaSProductivity🇮🇹 IT
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.
$126K/yr·First customer in 7 months·Team
SaaSDesign🇬🇧 GB
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