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11 founders who reached $10K MRR using Other
I'm a 29-year-old software engineer from Germany who left my full-time job to dedicate one year to building my own projects. The Grind My MRR gr...
Data Fetcher recently hit $10k MRR. It's still 100% bootstrapped with one full-time team member (me!). Background I studied engineering at unive...
A non-technical founder went from idea to first customer in 4 days and five figures in 30 days using no-code tools and TikTok.
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.
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.
John Brewton spent nine months publishing to barely a thousand readers, then a single proof post timed to a small coaching offer flipped his Substack into a six-stream business on track for $200k.
Cam Trew, Jake Ward, Lara Acosta and Rob Hoffman rebuilt Kleo from an old LinkedIn extension audience into an AI content workflow that reached $62K MRR in three months without ads or Product Hunt.
Paul Vengeons, Nicholas Dulait, and Léo Leducq turned an SEO coaching relationship into ChatSEO, then used beta calls, founder-led audience, free tools, and personalized organic distribution to reach about €14K MRR in roughly three months.
Matthew Miller turned his vibe-coding livestream into BridgeMind, an agentic development ecosystem that reached about $14.8K MRR by day 165 through public building, community and dogfooding instead of paid acquisition.
Sorin Alupoaie did not start Swifteq by chasing a giant SaaS idea. He watched Zendesk support teams repeat the same painful workflows, shipped tiny apps around those pains, and grew a portfolio to €20K+ MRR.
Preetam Nath and Sankalp Jonna turned a two-week Shopify App Store MVP into SuperLemon, a WhatsApp commerce tool that passed $25K MRR with 20,000 merchants and a two-person team.
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