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$100K ARR via Twitter / X
41 founders who reached $100K ARR using Twitter / X
Key Statistics
Stories
41
Avg Time
1 year
Fastest
7 days
Solo
44%
Top growth channel
Twitter / X (41)
ML
Marc Lou
From Paris waiter to $250K in 5 months selling a code boilerplate
My journey took me from being a Paris waiter to an $80,000/month solopreneur over seven years of persistence. After 17 failed projects, I found succes...
$240K/yr·$100K ARR in 5 months·Solo
Info productDeveloper tools🇫🇷 FR
DP
Danny Postma
How I made $100K in 2 weeks with an AI headshot tool
After selling my previous AI company Headlime for seven figures, I took time off in 2021. I was growing increasingly bored when an idea struck me: why...
$3.6M/yr·$100K ARR in 14 days·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇳🇱 NL
Adam Wathan
From open source to $2M+ with Tailwind UI
We built Tailwind CSS as an open source project, then launched Tailwind UI as a commercial product. It made over $500K in the first three days. Bui...
$700K/yr·$100K ARR in 1 month·Team
SaaSDeveloper tools🇨🇦 CA
Thibault Louis-Lucas
Shipped 11 products in 4 months, then built $3.5M ARR tool
Before Taplio succeeded, I shipped 11 products in 4 months. The key was speed and willingness to move on from failures. The Shipping Mindset I r...
$3.5M/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Justin Welsh
From SVP panic attack to $5M/year solo with 89% profit margin
I was SVP of Sales when I had a panic attack from burnout. I quit to build a solo business. Now I make $5M/year with 89% profit margin and zero ads....
$6.4M/yr·$100K ARR in 4 years·Solo
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
TD
Tyler Denk
Morning Brew Engineer Builds Newsletter Platform to $1M MRR
Tyler Denk joined Morning Brew in 2017 as the second employee, where he led product, growth, and engineering. The Opportunity After building the...
$32M/yr·$100K ARR in 4 years·Team
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Sahil Bloom
Private Equity Analyst Builds 800K Newsletter During COVID, $70K/Month
Sahil Bloom was working at a private equity firm when March 2020 hit. Instead of 70+ hour weeks, he was suddenly at home. COVID Opportunity He h...
$840K/yr·$100K ARR in 2 years·Solo
Info productContent creation🇺🇸 US
Dickie Bush
Writer Creates 30-Day Challenge, Grows to 4,000 Students and Millions in Revenue
In December 2020, Dickie Bush tweeted: 'is anyone interested in doing a daily writing challenge for 30 days?' Rapid Validation Six days after th...
$500K/yr·$100K ARR in 6 months·Team
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
David Perell
Writer Launches Online Writing Course, $200K+ from First Two Cohorts
David Perell launched Write of Passage in April 2019 with ~150 students at $600. He ran it with Tiago Forte. Instant Success Even the first coho...
0$100K ARR in 3 months·Team
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
Kieran Drew
Ex-Dentist Turned Copywriter, $142K Course Launch at $297
Kieran Drew quit dentistry on 2 September 2021 to write online full time, and launched High Impact Writing in May 2023. Premium Pricing He launc...
$100K ARR in 7 days·Solo
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
Yasser Elsaid
College Student Reaches $64K MRR in 6 Months with AI Chatbot Platform
Just a few months ago I was in my 4th year of college, interning at FAANG companies like Meta and Tesla. Then I placed my side hustle in front of the...
$8M/yr·$100K ARR in 4 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Daniel Vassallo
How I quit my $500K Amazon job and built $1M in revenue through small bets
Left Amazon with 150 Twitter followers. Three years later, $1M in cumulative revenue from info products and community.
$1M/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Solo
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
Jay Clouse
How a newsletter grew into a $500K/year creator business in 3 years
Started with a blog nobody read. Rebranded to Creator Science and built to $500K/year through newsletter, podcast, and community.
$800K/yr·$100K ARR in 3 years·Solo
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
Pieter Levels
Pieter Levels Builds Photo AI to $150K/Month in Under 3 Years
After Nomad List, Pieter built Photo AI using PHP/jQuery to $150K/month - 87% profit margin, 100% bootstrapped.
$100K ARR in 3 years·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🌍 Remote
Francesco Di Lorenzo
Francesco Di Lorenzo Launched Typefully to 1000 Users in One Day
Francesco and co-founders launched Typefully on Product Hunt and Hacker News, getting 1,432 signups on day one. Now at $100K+ MRR.
$1.4M/yr·$100K ARR in 11 months·Team
SaaSContent creation🇵🇹 PT
Paul Yacoubian & Chris Lu
Copy.ai: Building in Public from $0 to $157K MRR in 10 Months
Paul Yacoubian launched Copy.ai on Twitter and grew to $157K MRR in 10 months by building in public and leveraging GPT-3.
$100K ARR in 10 months·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Kayla Itsines & Tobi Pearce
From Training Women in Parents Backyard to a $400M Fitness Empire
Kayla Itsines started at 18 training women in her parents backyard in Adelaide, created a PDF workout guide that went viral on Instagram, and sold her Sweat app for $400M.
$100M/yr·$100K ARR in 3 years·Team
Mobile appHealth & wellness🇦🇺 AU
Samy Dindane & Yannick Veys
From a Tweet to 7-Figure SaaS: The Hypefury Story
Samy Dindane and Yannick Veys scaled Hypefury from a tweet asking about thread scheduling to a 7-figure bootstrapped business.
$567K/yr·$100K ARR in 2 years·Team
SaaSContent creation🌍 Remote
Maxx Blank, AJ Orbach & Ivan Chernykh
Triple Whale
From Internal Tool to $50M+ SaaS: The Triple Whale Story
The Triple Whale founders built an analytics tool for their own DTC brand, then spun it into a 5,000+ customer SaaS with Shopify as an investor.
$21.6M/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
SaaSE-commerce🇺🇸 US
Zeno Rocha
From Hospital Bed to $250K: How a Dark Theme Became a Design Business
Zeno Rocha created the Dracula color theme in 2013 while hospitalized in Germany, after his laptop was stolen from his hospital room. Seven years and 3 million downloads later, he launched a paid version, and made $5K in 72 hours.
$100K ARR in 1 year·Solo
OtherDesignBrazil → USA
Anton Osika
Lovable: From a Weekend Side Project to $10M ARR in 60 Days
Anton Osika's weekend hack became the fastest-growing GitHub repo ever. After two failed commercial launches, a rebrand to Lovable hit $10M ARR in 60 days with just 15 people.
$200M/yr·$100K ARR in 2 months·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇸🇪 SE
ES
Eric Simons
Bolt.new: From Near-Death ($80K ARR) to $40M ARR in 5 Months
Eric Simons spent 7 years building browser-based dev tools at $80K ARR. When Claude 3.5 Sonnet made AI coding viable, a single tweet launched Bolt.new to $4M ARR in 4 weeks.
$40M/yr·$100K ARR in 3 months·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Aravind Srinivas
Perplexity: How Four AI Researchers Built a $200M ARR Google Competitor
Aravind Srinivas left OpenAI to attack "solved" search with AI. Perplexity launched 7 days after ChatGPT and grew to $200M ARR by shipping faster than anyone thought possible.
$500M/yr·$100K ARR in 2 years·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Brett Williams
DesignJoy: How Brett Williams Built a $1.5M/Year Design Agency of One — Zero Employees, $95/Month in Tools
Brett Williams had been designing since 2009. In 2017 he launched DesignJoy, a subscription design service. Building in public on Twitter from early 2022 filled a 100+ company waitlist in three weeks and let him double his prices. By 2022, he broke $1.5M ARR as a true agency of one.
$1.7M/yr·$100K ARR in 4 years·Solo
Agency / serviceDesign🇺🇸 US
Greg Isenberg
Late Checkout: How Greg Isenberg Built an 8-Figure Holding Company with $0 Outside Capital
After two acquisitions (5by by StumbleUpon, Islands by WeWork) and advisory roles at TikTok and Reddit, Greg Isenberg launched Late Checkout. In three years, it hit 8 figures with zero outside capital.
$10M/yr·$100K ARR in 2 years·Team
Agency / serviceMarketing🇨🇦 CA
Nick Huber
Sweaty Startup: How Nick Huber Built a $150M Self-Storage Empire from a College Side Hustle
Nick Huber started Storage Squad at Cornell, expanded to 25 college towns, then caught the self-storage bug. He used Twitter to raise $20M+ and scale to 63+ properties worth $150M+, while building Sweaty Startup into a media brand.
$100K ARR in 9 years·Team
OtherFinance🇺🇸 US
Jack Butcher
Visualize Value: How Jack Butcher Went from a Honda Factory to $180K/Month Through Daily Visual Posts
Jack Butcher assembled cars at a Honda factory, talked his way into design school, spent 8 years at agencies, then burned out running his own. In January 2019, he started posting simple visuals on Twitter. Within 18 months: $180K/month.
$100K ARR in 1 year·Solo
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
Dan Koe
Dan Koe: 6 Failed Businesses, Then $3.3M/Year from Writing 2 Hours Per Day
Dan Koe tried fitness YouTube, dropshipping, a Facebook ads agency, and two e-commerce brands — all failed. Then he started writing on Twitter. Within 4 years: $3.3M/year and 3.4M followers.
$4.1M/yr·$100K ARR in 4 years·Solo
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
JR Farr
How JR Farr Built a Merchant of Record for Indie Developers — Then Got Acquired by Stripe
JR Farr built Lemon Squeezy as a merchant of record for indie developers, found product-market fit after hiring a sales team, then grew fast when Gumroad raised prices. Stripe acquired it in 2024.
$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
SaaSDeveloper tools🇺🇸 US
Shaan Puri & Ben Levy
How Two Founders Grew a Crypto Newsletter to 250K Subscribers in 10 Months — Then Sold It
Shaan Puri had 300K+ Twitter followers. He and Ben Levy launched Milk Road in February 2022. Ten months later, they sold it to Beehiiv.
$100K ARR in 10 months·Team
OtherContent creation🇺🇸 US
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.
$400K/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
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.
$492K/yr·$100K ARR in 7 months·Solo
SaaSMarketingOshawa, Ontario, Canada
JR
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.
$664K/yr·$100K ARR in 3 months·Team
SaaSMarketing🌍 Remote
Matt McGarry
how matt mcgarry turned a newsletter into a 7-figure education business
Matt McGarry launched Newsletter Operator in January 2023 with a tweet and a 1,300-follower audience. Within a year and a half it grew past 25,000 subscribers and supported a 7-figure business built on courses and an agency.
$1M/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Solo
Info productContent creation🇺🇸 US
Olly Meakings
how senja reached $1m arr with a viral testimonial loop
Olly Meakings and Wilson Wilson bootstrapped Senja, a testimonial tool, to $1M ARR in under four years, largely on a product-led viral loop and relentless build-in-public reporting.
$1M/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
SaaSMarketing🌍 Remote
Gil Hildebrand
how Gil Hildebrand bootstrapped Subscribr to $10k MRR in 100 days
After an unprofitable VC-backed crypto startup, Gil Hildebrand picked a calmer market, presold 50 lifetime deals to a 1,000-person email list, and reached $10k MRR within 100 days of launching Subscribr.
$744K/yr·$100K ARR in 3 months·Team
SaaSContent creation🇺🇸 US
Josh Pigford
how josh pigford turned down millions, then sold baremetrics for $4m
Josh Pigford built Baremetrics in days to scratch his own itch, grew it past $1.5M ARR, walked away from a deal that collapsed at the finish line, then sold a year later for $4 million in cash.
sold for $4M·$100K ARR in 5 months·Solo
SaaSDeveloper tools🇺🇸 US
RC
Reilly Chase
how reilly chase landed hostifi's first 11 customers in three weeks
With an IT background but no SaaS experience, Reilly Chase built a UniFi hosting tool, launched it with a single tweet, and found his first 11 paying customers in three weeks by going where Ubiquiti users actually hung out.
$3M/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Solo
SaaSDeveloper tools🇺🇸 US
Gagan Biyani
Maven hit a $4M run rate in three months, then spent two years undoing it
Gagan Biyani tested one live course before writing any software, launched Maven to a $4M course sales run rate in three months, then discovered the customers paying him did not need him.
$100K ARR in 6 months·Team
MarketplaceEducation🇺🇸 US
Javi Lopez
Magnific went from launch to $10M ARR in a year with two people and no ads
Magnific AI opened on 27 November 2023 with a waitlist, two founders and no free trial. Five months later it had 725,000 registered users and Freepik had bought it.
$10.2M/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
SaaSDesign🇪🇸 ES
Josh Comeau
How Josh Comeau pre-sold $577,000 of a half-finished CSS course in one week
A repetitive strain injury pushed Josh Comeau out of a $165,000 engineering job. Seven months later he opened pre-orders for an unfinished CSS course, aimed at $50,000, and closed the week at $577,000.
$100K ARR in 8 months·Solo
Info productEducation
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Stories41
Avg Time1 year
Fastest7 days
Technical66%