Founder stories
$10K MRR via Twitter / X
22 founders who reached $10K MRR using Twitter / X
Key Statistics
Stories
22
Avg Time
1 year
Fastest
7 days
Solo
82%
Top growth channel
Twitter / X (22)
Pieter Levels
How I turned a spreadsheet into a $2M+/year business as a solo founder
In 2013, I sold all my possessions, packed a backpack and a laptop, and flew to Thailand to begin my digital nomad life. I was once a lost musician ea...
$10K MRR in 1 year·Solo
SaaSTravel🌍 Remote
Tony Dinh
How I made $22K in 7 days with a ChatGPT UI tool
On March 1st 2023, OpenAI announced the ChatGPT API. Right on that day, I came up with the idea to create a new UI to solve my own pain points with th...
$10K MRR in 7 days·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇻🇳 VN
Jon Yongfook
BannerbearMy 2-year journey to $10K MRR as a solo founder
When I quit my job in January 2019, I had a 2-year runway. For almost 1 year I made no money and burned through my savings. That's because I was doing...
$10K MRR in 2 years·Solo
API / Developer ToolDeveloper Tools🇯🇵 JP
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...
$10K MRR in 1 year·Solo
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 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...
$10K MRR in 1 year·Solo
SaaSDeveloper Tools🇺🇸 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...
$10K MRR in 2 months·Solo
MarketplaceE-commerce🇺🇸 US
Samy Dindane
Built MVP in 3 days, grew to $23K MRR in 2 years
Hypefury started as a weekend project. I built the MVP in 3 days after spotting a gap in Twitter tools. Two years later, we hit $23K MRR and kept grow...
$10K MRR in 2 years·Team
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Lenny Rachitsky
Ex-Airbnb PM Launches Newsletter, $360K ARR in Year One
Lenny Rachitsky launched his newsletter about a year before going paid. When he introduced paid subscriptions, he had 15,000 free subscribers. Pric...
$100K ARR in 2 years·Solo
Info ProductContent Creation🇺🇸 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...
$10K MRR in 2 years·Solo
Info ProductContent Creation🇺🇸 US
Adrian Horning
Psychology Major Becomes "Web Scraping Guy", Hits $10K MRR
I was a psychology major in college. One day I learned about Uber and decided I wanted to be in tech. So I moved to San Francisco, attended a coding b...
$10K MRR in 1 year·Solo
API / Developer ToolAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Bhanu Teja
24-Year-Old From India Reaches $10K MRR in 1 Month with AI Chatbot
I had around 10,000 Twitter followers and frequently mentioned I would be launching a new AI product soon. I didn't have high expectations. Multi-P...
$10K MRR in 1 month·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Dustin W. Stout
From Zero to $20K MRR in 163 Days with All-in-One AI Tool
After following the BuildInPublic journey of many indie makers, I decided this was the approach I was going to take. Slow and Steady I didn't w...
$10K MRR in 5 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Rosie Sherry
How a community expert built her second $10K/month business teaching what she knows
After building Ministry of Testing to $1.2M, Rosie started Rosieland to teach community building. Reached $10K/month in 2.5 years.
$10K MRR in 2 years·Solo
Info ProductEducation🇬🇧 GB
Steph Smith
Doing Content Right
Trends Content Lead Launches Course, $40K in First Month
Steph leveraged her experience leading content at The Hustle to launch Doing Content Right, earning $40K in the first month.
$10K MRR in 1 month·Solo
Info ProductEducation🌍 Remote
Jon Yongfook
Jon Yongfook Bootstrapped Bannerbear to $10K MRR After 12 Failed Startups
After 12 startups in 12 months challenge, Jon found his calling in automated image generation and bootstrapped Bannerbear to $50K+ MRR.
$10K MRR in 1 year·Solo
API / Developer ToolDesign🇯🇵 JP
Justin Moore
From $5M in Sponsorships to Teaching Creators How to Land Deals
Justin Moore made over $5M in sponsorships himself before building Creator Wizard to help other creators do the same.
$10K MRR in 3 years·Solo
Info ProductContent Creation🇺🇸 US
Guillermo Rauch
V0: How Vercel's CEO Built an AI UI Generator Used by 3M+ Developers
Guillermo Rauch, a self-taught developer who never finished high school, built Next.js and Vercel. Then he used AI to make his own platform accessible to 100M+ potential users.
$10K MRR in 1 year·Solo
SaaSDeveloper Tools🇺🇸 US
Zeno Rocha
Resend: Open Source First to $5M ARR with a 22-Person Team
Zeno Rocha spent $25K on a domain, launched an open-source email library, built a 6,338-person waitlist in 7 weeks, then turned it into $5M ARR — the "Stripe of email."
$10K MRR in 1 year·Team
API / Developer ToolDeveloper Tools🇺🇸 US
Victor Perez
Krea AI: A Localhost Demo That Made $10K Before Launch — 20M Users with a Team of 8
Victor Perez and Diego Rodriguez dropped King of Spain scholarships at Cornell to build Krea AI. A localhost demo posted on Twitter generated $10K in subscriptions in 24 hours. They grew to 20M users with just 8 people.
$10K MRR in 2 years·Team
SaaSDesign🇺🇸 US
Juanjo Valiño
how juanjo valiño turned a repeated-code problem into a $15k month with wrapfast
After shipping 15+ iOS apps, Juanjo bundled the boring repeated code into a SwiftUI boilerplate called WrapFast, made $750 on day one, and rode a Black Friday surge to his first $15k month.
$10K MRR in 9 months·Solo
OtherDeveloper ToolsGalicia, Spain
Mattia Pomelli
how sleek.design reached $10k mrr six weeks after launch
Mattia Pomelli and two friends repurposed an earlier design tool into Sleek, an AI mobile app designer, and reached $10k MRR within six weeks of launch without spending on ads.
$10K MRR in 1 month·Team
SaaSDesign🌍 Remote
Dominik Sobe
how dominik sobe turned notion into a $3k mrr help center business
A self-taught Austrian developer needed a help center for his app, hated every option, and built one on top of Notion instead. HelpKit hit $3K MRR and 130+ customers within roughly a year.
$10K MRR in 3 years·Solo
SaaSProductivity🌍 Remote
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Quick Stats
Stories22
Avg Time1 year
Fastest7 days
Technical86%