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18 Solo founders who succeeded with Product Hunt
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18
Avg Time
1 year
Fastest
1 days
Solo
100%
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Alexander Isora
How I built a landing page builder to $10K MRR as a solo founder
I've created 20+ products over the years. Unicorn Platform was the one that really got off the ground. I don't have any KPI or growth goals. I'm not c...
sold for $400K·$10K MRR in 3 years·Solo
SaaSDeveloper toolsGeorgia
AJ
$1K on launch day to $1M ARR with zero marketing spend
Carrd launched on Product Hunt and made $1K on day one. It grew to over $1M ARR with absolutely zero marketing spend. The Launch Product Hunt la...
$2M/yr·$100K ARR in 3 years·Solo
SaaSProductivity🇺🇸 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/yr·$100K ARR in 2 years·Solo
SaaSDeveloper tools🇳🇱 NL
GR
Guilherme Rizzo
21-Year-Old Self-Taught Brazilian Developer Makes $100K with CSS Extension
I'm from Brazil and built CSS Scan because I always wanted to know what border-radius, box-shadow, or font-family an element I see has. Fast Progre...
$48K/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Solo
Chrome extensionDeveloper toolsBrazil (now Taiwan)
Julien Nahum
Bootstrapped a Notion form builder from $0 to $10K MRR in one year
Julien built NotionForms to solve his own problem, reaching $10K MRR in 12 months through Product Hunt and SEO.
$444K/yr·$10K MRR in 1 year·Solo
SaaSProductivity🇫🇷 FR
Nathan Latka
Podcast Host Turns Interview Data into $150K MRR SaaS in 100 Days
Nathan turned his podcast interview data into Getlatka, reaching $20K/month in 100 days and $150K MRR within a year.
$1.8M/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
P
Prince
21-Year-Old Indian Developer Makes $3.5K in 2 Months Selling AI Chrome Extension Source Code
Prince built Helper-AI and earned $3.5K in 2 months by selling the source code on Gumroad - without a large following.
$1K MRR in 8 months·Solo
Chrome extensionAI / ML🇮🇳 IN
AU
Andres Ugarte
Solo Founder Builds Apple Design Award Finalist Finance App
Andres Ugarte started building Copilot Money in 2018, creating a native iOS finance app that became an Apple Design Award finalist.
$2.9M/yr·$10K MRR in 2 years·Solo
Mobile appFinance🇺🇸 US
AJ
AJ Built Carrd to $1M+ ARR as a Solo Side Project
AJ built Carrd as the most ambitious solo project he had ever taken on, spending about a year on it to test if people wanted one-page websites. Now it powers 3.3M+ sites with 2.2M+ users.
$2M/yr·$100K ARR in 4 years·Solo
SaaSDesign🇺🇸 US
Fabrizio Bianchi
How a Weekend Project Became a 3M+ User Color Tool
Fabrizio Bianchi built Coolors in a weekend in 2014, and it grew to 3M+ users through viral simplicity.
$10K MRR in 4 years·Solo
SaaSDesign🇮🇹 IT
Andrew Mason
Descript: The Groupon Founder Who Built a $550M AI Video Editor by Editing Audio Like Text
After founding Groupon ($16B IPO) and watching it unravel, Andrew Mason built Descript — an AI video editor that lets you edit media by editing text. He acquired a voice-cloning AI startup and rebuilt the product from scratch.
$55M/yr·$100K ARR in 5 years·Solo
SaaSContent creation🇺🇸 US
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.
sold for $200K·$1K MRR in 3 months·Solo
SaaSProductivityBangkok, Thailand
ML
Matthew Lipman
how a designer grew a free SVG tool into a $2k MRR subscription product
Matthew Lipman turned a frustrating gap in SVG tooling into SVGBackgrounds.com, a free resource that a Product Hunt launch pushed from 120 to 16,500 visitors overnight. He added a subscription tier within two months and climbed to $2k+ MRR over eight years.
$24K/yr·$1K MRR in 3 years·Solo
SaaSDesign🇺🇸 US
Viktor Seraleev
how a widget website builder reached its first paying users in one month
Viktor Seraleev built Type.link with a developer friend, collected 400 emails before launch, and hit $134 MRR in his first month charging for bio-link sites.
$2K/yr·$100 MRR in 1 month·Solo
SaaSDesign🌍 Remote
Joe Masilotti
a one-month mvp that sold 14 months later
A Rails developer timeboxed an MVP to 30 days, landed two paying customers in his first 20 minutes on Product Hunt, and sold the product 14 months later.
$2K/yr·$100 MRR in 2 months·Solo
SaaSDeveloper tools🇺🇸 US
Mohd Danish Yusuf
How NoCodeAPI reached $5K MRR by removing backend setup from no-code workflows
Mohd Danish Yusuf turned his own repeated API-integration pain into NoCodeAPI, grew it to $2K MRR in its launch year, then reached $5K MRR before a six-figure acquisition.
$1K MRR in 1 year·Solo
API / developer toolDeveloper tools🇮🇳 IN
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 in 6 months·Solo
SaaSDesign🇨🇦 CA
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.
sold for $100M·First customer in 1 days·Solo
OtherE-commerce🇺🇸 US
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