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19 Co-Founderss who reached $1K MRR
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Stories
19
Avg Time
9 months
Fastest
2 days
Solo
0%
Top growth channel
Communities (5)
KY
Kalo Yankulov
From idea to exit: How I launched, grew and sold my first micro SaaS
Back in late 2016, we launched HeadReach, a sales tool for lead generation. It's a SaaS that helps you find emails of people you want to sell to. Thin...
$1K MRR in 3 months·Team
SaaSMarketing🇧🇬 BG
DK
Dan Kulkov, Sveta Bay
Couple Makes $60K Helping Solopreneurs with AI Marketing Wrapper
My co-founder and I built FounderPal.ai, an AI marketing strategy tool for solopreneurs. The initial version only incurred a monthly cost of $150....
$215K/yr·$1K MRR in 1 month·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Dagobert Renouf
Left $100K dev job to bootstrap a logo startup with his wife
Dagobert quit his high-paying job to build Logology with his designer wife, growing from $300 to $3K/month using only Twitter.
$1K MRR in 3 years·Team
SaaSDesign🇫🇷 FR
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
LR
Luca Restagno
Software Engineer Turned Solopreneur Shares First Year Journey to $1.5K MRR
Luca documented his solopreneur journey publicly on Twitter, reaching $1.5K MRR in his first year while working a day job.
$1K MRR in 1 year·Team
SaaSProductivity🇮🇹 IT
CM
Chris Mason
From $0 to $1K in Revenue in 30 Days by Validating Before Building
Chris and his co-founder validated demand first by talking to WooCommerce store owners, then built One Click Upsells to $1K in 30 days.
$1K MRR in 1 month·Team
SaaSE-commerce🇺🇸 US
Jon Bittner
Astrophysics PhD Builds Expense Splitting App Used by Tens of Millions
Jon Bittner pivoted from astrophysics to building Splitwise, now used by tens of millions worldwide.
$25M/yr·$1K MRR in 2 years·Team
Mobile appFinance🇺🇸 US
PX
Peter Xu & Harry Yu
Twin Brothers Build Top-Ranked Travel Planning App
Peter Xu and Harry Yu (twin brothers) leveraged their Stripe and Google experience to build Wanderlog, now top-ranked for travel planning.
$1M/yr·$1K MRR in 1 year·Team
SaaSTravel🇺🇸 US
BE
Berk Elmas
how sketch logo ai reached $8.4k in four months on seo and a product hunt launch
A bootstrapped AI logo tool that hit $8.4k in four months through a Product Hunt launch and a relentless SEO and backlink grind.
$36K/yr·$1K MRR in 1 month·Team
SaaSDesign🇹🇷 TR
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
BW
Ben Waterman
how a non-technical finance pro built strabo to $1k mrr with no-code and seo
Ben Waterman left a finance job to build a personal finance dashboard with no coding background, starting in Bubble and reaching $1K MRR with 1,100 monthly active users.
$12K/yr·$1K MRR in 9 months·Team
SaaSFinanceLondon, UK
PH
Peter Hrbacik
how Peter Hrbacik turned KWFinder into a $223k/mo SEO suite
After years of failed prototypes and freelance work, Peter Hrbacik built KWFinder in about a month, launched it to Hacker News and Reddit, and grew the simple SEO tool into Mangools, a bootstrapped suite reporting roughly $223k/month by 2018.
$2.7M/yr·$1K MRR in 5 months·Team
SaaSMarketing🇸🇰 SK
GR
Geoff Roberts, Dimitris Georgakopoulos, Dave Wong
Building the Shopify for SaaS on a 15-year timeline
Geoff Roberts and the Outseta team spent three years getting to about $1.5K MRR, then kept building an integrated SaaS stack until it became a low seven-figure business.
$996K/yr·$1K MRR in 3 years·Team
SaaSDeveloper tools🇺🇸 US
Mattias Geniar & Freek Van der Herten
Building website monitoring from two operators' blind spots to $1.5K MRR
Mattias Geniar and Freek Van der Herten turned their developer-plus-sysadmin blind spots into Oh Dear, a website monitoring SaaS that reached more than $1.5K per month within its first production months.
$18K/yr·$1K MRR in 6 months·Team
SaaSDeveloper tools🇧🇪 BE
Anatoly Pashias & Nick Nicolaou
How Motionvid.ai used a 21-day MVP and AppSumo launch to reach $7.8K MRR
Anatoly Pashias and Nick Nicolaou built Motionvid.ai from a filmmaker's motion-design bottleneck, launched a 21-day MVP through AppSumo, and grew the AI video tool to about $7.8K MRR without relying on paid ads.
$93K/yr·$1K MRR in 8 months·Team
SaaSContent creationLimassol, Cyprus
VD
Vitalii Dodonov
How Stanley for X hit $4K MRR in 48 hours by bottling a ghostwriter's system
Vitalii Dodonov and the Stanley team turned a 10-day build sprint, a ghostwriter's playbook, and a Product Hunt/X launch into 777 signups and $4K MRR in 48 hours.
$1K MRR in 2 days·Team
SaaSContent creation🇨🇦 CA
AK
Adam Knorr & Ben A. Wise
how Adam Knorr and Ben Wise built InfluenceLab to $5.6k MRR by coaching one narrow niche
Adam Knorr turned years of manual LinkedIn editing for financial advisors into InfluenceLab, a $49/month AI coaching SaaS that reached $5,651 MRR from 119 paying users by selling to a niche he already served.
$68K/yr·$1K MRR in 9 days·Team
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
Santanu Dasgupta
How Meerkats AI reached $3K MRR in 4 weeks by selling agentic GTM work
Santanu Dasgupta turned two decades of GTM pain into Meerkats AI, an agentic marketing platform that found early customers through agency outreach, education and LinkedIn posts instead of a broad launch.
$36K/yr·$1K MRR in 28 days·Team
SaaSMarketingBengaluru, India
AB
Alex Bouaziz
Deel rebuilt its product in ten days and hit $5,000 a month by demo day
Deel's first product had no buyers. A pivot ten days before Y Combinator's demo day put 290 contractors and $5,000 a month on the board.
$1B/yr·$1K MRR in 2 months·Team
SaaSFinance🌍 Remote
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Avg Time9 months
Fastest2 days
Technical79%
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