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Revenue in 3-6 months
37 founders who reached milestones in 3-6 months
Key Statistics
Stories
37
Avg Time
4 months
Fastest
3 months
Solo
62%
Top growth channel
Twitter / X (13)
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
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
Courtland Allen
Indie HackersHow I built Indie Hackers and sold it to Stripe
I was frustrated with how hard it was to find real information about starting an online business. Everyone talked about raising venture capital, but I...
$1K MRR in 5 months·Solo
MarketplaceContent creation🇺🇸 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
Julia McCoy
19-Year-Old College Dropout Builds Content Agency from $75 to $4M
At 19, Julia McCoy was in college pursuing a degree she didn't want. She taught herself to write by writing hundreds of cheap articles. Finding the...
First customer in 3 months·Solo
Agency / serviceMarketing🇺🇸 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
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...
$1.2M/yr·$10K MRR in 5 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
KC
Kevin Conti
Software Ideas
Paid newsletter to $10K MRR in just 5 months through community engagement
Kevin turned his SaaS research into a newsletter, growing from $0 to $10K MRR in 5 months by building in public on Indie Hackers.
$120K/yr·$10K MRR in 5 months·Solo
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
Hamish McKenzie
Newsletter Platform Co-Founder Lands First Publisher, Who Books Six Figures on Day One
Substack found its first customer in Bill Bishop, whose Sinocism newsletter reached a six-figure annual run rate on its first paid day.
$45M/yr·First customer in 3 months·Team
SaaSContent creation🇺🇸 US
JF
Jack Friks
Cross-Platform Social Media Tool Reaches $7K/Month With Just TikTok Marketing
PostBridge reached $7K/month largely through daily TikTok content creation instead of paid ads.
$462K/yr·$1K MRR in 3 months·Solo
SaaSMarketingUnknown
Marc Chapon
Dropshipping Store (Pets Niche)
From Restaurant Manager to $178K in 3 Months with Dropshipping
Marc Chapon quit restaurant management and built a pet store doing $178,492 in 3 months by dropshipping US/EU products.
$10K MRR in 3 months·Solo
OtherE-commerceMorocco
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
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
Vasco Monteiro
how Vasco Monteiro grew Journalist AI to $70k mrr with YouTube
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.
$840K/yr·$10K MRR in 5 months·Team
SaaSContent creation🇵🇹 PT
Robert Janezic
how a product designer made $53k selling two figma files
Robert Janezic spent six months building a Figma UI kit for Tableau dashboards, then sold it as a one-time download. He says two files brought in $53k over 506 days, all in his spare time.
$37K/yr·$1K MRR in 4 months·Solo
Info productDesign
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
RW
Richard Wang
how richard reached 30k mrr with a reddit marketing tool
After shutting down an AI product nobody wanted, Richard Wang spent a month answering Reddit marketing questions, gathered 300 people who shared the same pain, and only then built Leadmore AI. More than ten of them paid in week one.
$360K/yr·$100K ARR in 3 months·Solo
SaaSMarketing
Ruslan Leteyski
Checkout X
Bootstrapping Checkout X to €600k MRR before Shopify shut it down
Ruslan Leteyski turned a workaround built for a doomed online pharmacy into a one-page Shopify checkout that reached 6,000 merchants and €600k MRR, all without ads or the App Store.
$7.2M/yr·$100K ARR in 3 months·Solo
SaaSE-commerceSofia, Bulgaria
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
David Bressler
how a non-coder built an ai excel tool to $20k in two months
David Bressler spent his paternity leave building an AI Excel formula tool with no-code Bubble, then watched influencers turn it into a fast-growing freemium business.
$500K/yr·$100K ARR in 4 months·Solo
SaaSAI / MLOrlando, Florida
Eddy Vinck
how a part-time dev got blog recorder to $250 mrr in 6 months
Eddy Vinck shipped his first SaaS, Blog Recorder, as a part-time project and reached $250 MRR and $2,000 in total revenue in six months, with his first customer coming from his own developer network.
$3K/yr·$100 MRR in 3 months·Solo
SaaSContent creation🇳🇱 NL
Dru Riley
how Dru Riley took Trends.vc from zero to $20k MRR in under a year
Dru Riley quit a big-data job with savings and a vague plan, burned through three years of side projects, then turned weekly research reports into a one-person newsletter that hit roughly $20k MRR within a year of launch.
$240K/yr·$10K MRR in 4 months·Solo
Info productMarketing🌍 Remote
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
AR
Alex Rainey & Mike Heap
how My AskAI used $5k pre-sales to reach $14k MRR in months
Alex Rainey and Mike Heap tested My AskAI with a $99 pre-sale before the full product existed, generated about $5k from 50+ buyers, then used Product Hunt, word of mouth, and Google search to reach about $14k MRR by May 2023.
$10K MRR in 4 months·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇬🇧 GB
Eric Smith
How AutoShorts.ai reached $40K MRR with faceless-video automation
Eric Smith built AutoShorts.ai from a personal need for automated short-form videos, got the first paying subscriber on February 1, and reached $20K MRR by April 27 before the source reported $40K MRR on May 13.
$1.2M/yr·$10K MRR in 4 months·Solo
SaaSContent creation🇺🇸 US
Farid Shukurov
How Farid turned his slow X growth problem into a $2K MRR AI posting coach
Farid Shukurov struggled to grow on X, studied viral posts manually, then turned that workflow into SupaBird, an AI growth suite that reached $2,057/month mostly through organic channels.
$25K/yr·$1K MRR in 5 months·Solo
SaaSMarketingBerlin, Germany
Arthur Yuzbashev
How Arthur turned six Reddit bans into a $6K MRR marketing SaaS
After two failed products and six Reddit bans, Arthur Yuzbashev tracked subreddit behavior in a spreadsheet, turned the pattern into MediaFast, and grew it to roughly $6K MRR with organic distribution.
$84K/yr·$1K MRR in 3 months·Solo
SaaSMarketingBarcelona, Spain
Matthew Miller
How Matthew Miller livestreamed BridgeMind to $14.8K MRR in 165 days
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.
$178K/yr·$10K MRR in 6 months·Solo
SaaSDeveloper tools🇺🇸 US
Alex Nguyen
How Feynman AI reached $6K MRR by turning lectures into study workflows
Alex Nguyen built Feynman AI after seeing an international student struggle to follow lectures abroad. A one-month web MVP, fast user feedback, TikTok-style social distribution and App Store search took the solo education app to over $6K MRR in four months.
$72K/yr·$1K MRR in 4 months·Solo
Mobile appEducationHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Wilson Wilson
How Ferndesk reached $2K MRR by making help docs update themselves
Wilson Wilson turned stale SaaS help centers into an AI agent workflow and reached $2K MRR after 228 days by compounding weekly product work, customer conversations, and founder-led content.
$24K/yr·$1K MRR in 5 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML
Brian Balfour
Brian Balfour ran Reforge on customer money for five years before he raised anything
Reforge started as a weekend side project Brian Balfour ran while still at HubSpot. Five years later it was profitable with eight figures of revenue, and only then did he take outside money.
$30M/yr·First customer in 4 months·Solo
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
Jason Leow
How Jason Leow's coding practice turned into Plugins For Carrd
Jason Leow built tiny Vue apps to teach himself to code, then noticed they filled gaps in Carrd. Three months of free plugins later he charged for the first one, and year one closed at $1,099.
$5K/yr·$100 MRR in 4 months·Solo
OtherDesign🇸🇬 SG
Matteo Franceschetti
Eight Sleep hit its $100,000 goal in under 11 hours, then spent a year learning to manufacture
Matteo Franceschetti and three co-founders put a sleep tracking mattress cover on Indiegogo on 27 January 2015. The $100,000 goal was met the same day, and the campaign closed at $1,231,729 from 5,202 backers.
$100K ARR in 4 months·Team
OtherHealth & wellness🇺🇸 US
Sam Corcos
How Levels Health went from a $389 beta to a $12,482 month in 158 days
Sam Corcos publishes Levels Health's monthly investor updates in public, so the early revenue line can be read directly instead of reconstructed. It runs $6,774, $4,507, $7,221, $12,482.
$21.1M/yr·$10K MRR in 5 months·Team
Mobile appHealth & wellness🇺🇸 US
Tanay Kothari
Tanay Kothari killed a three year hardware product and had Wispr Flow selling in 91 days
In July 2024 Tanay Kothari shut down the hardware Wispr had spent three years building and cut the team from 40 people to 5. The dictation app that replaced it was in users' hands six weeks later and selling subscriptions by the end of September.
First customer in 3 months·Team
SaaSProductivity🇺🇸 US
Zach Yadegari
Cal AI went from a high school classroom to nearly $300k a month in 98 days
Zach Yadegari announced Cal AI on Product Hunt in April 2024 as a 17 year old high school junior. Ninety eight days later he reported nearly $300,000 in monthly revenue, and in March 2026 MyFitnessPal bought the app.
$50M/yr·$100K ARR in 3 months·Team
Mobile appHealth & wellness🇺🇸 US
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