Founder stories
Revenue in 3-6 months
32 founders who reached milestones in 3-6 months
Key Statistics
Stories
32
Avg Time
4 months
Fastest
3 months
Solo
69%
Top growth channel
Twitter / X (10)
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...
$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 4 months·Solo
MarketplaceContent Creation🇺🇸 US
Robin Vander Heyden
ManyPixels
Unlimited Design for $359/Month: Productized Service to $60K MRR
Robin didn't have a job and decided to launch a productized service offering unlimited design work for a fixed fee per month. Rapid Growth He gr...
$100K ARR in 4 months·Solo
Agency / ServiceDesign🇺🇸 US
RS
Roman Sevast
From Crushing VC Rejection to YC: Designer Marketplace $100K ARR in 3 Months
Roman struggled to find the right designer while working on a previous startup. They launched Awesomic with a simple Facebook post. Fast Validation...
$100K ARR in 3 months·Team
MarketplaceDesign🇺🇸 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...
$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...
$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...
$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.
$10K MRR in 5 months·Solo
Info ProductEducation🇺🇸 US
PD
PostBridge Developer
Cross-Platform Social Media Tool Reaches $7K/Month With Just TikTok Marketing
PostBridge reached $7K/month and 100K users with just 1 hour of daily TikTok content creation - zero ad spend.
$1K MRR in 3 months·Solo
SaaSMarketingUnknown
Marc Chapon
Dropshipping Store (Pets Niche)
From Restaurant Manager to $200K in 3 Months with Dropshipping
Marc Chapon quit restaurant management and built a pet store doing $200K in 3 months by dropshipping US/EU products.
$10K MRR in 3 months·Solo
OtherE-commerce🇺🇸 US
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.
$100K ARR in 3 months·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
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.
$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.
$10K MRR in 5 months·Team
SaaSContent CreationAmersfoort, Netherlands
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.
$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.
$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.
$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.
$100K ARR in 3 months·Solo
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.
$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.
$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.
$100 MRR in 3 months·Solo
SaaSContent Creation🇳🇱 NL
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
Cam Trew, Jake Ward, Lara Acosta & Rob Hoffman
Turning an old LinkedIn extension audience into $62K MRR in three months
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.
$10K MRR in 3 months·Team
SaaSMarketing🌍 Remote
AS
Angel Stoevski & Mihael Borchevski
How Footly reached $10K MRR in 90 days with an AI soccer coach
Angel Stoevski and co-founder Mihael Borchevski built Footly around a specific athlete pain: players could record training clips, but they lacked objective feedback and personalized practice plans. The app crossed $10K MRR by its third month.
$10K MRR in 3 months·Team
Mobile AppHealth & WellnessNorth Macedonia
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.
$10K MRR in 4 months·Solo
SaaSContent Creation🇺🇸 US
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.
$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.
$10K MRR in 6 months·Solo
SaaSDeveloper Tools🇺🇸 US
Lorik Morina
How Lorik Morina grew RotateProduct to $6.5K MRR with $20/day ads and Shopify intent
Lorik Morina did not wait for a viral launch. He took a 33-download, zero-MRR first day, layered Hacker News, $20/day Meta ads, Shopify App Store distribution and referral loops, and grew RotateProduct's app revenue to about $6.5K MRR by week 21.
$1K MRR in 5 months·Solo
SaaSE-commerceKosovo
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.
$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.
$1K MRR in 5 months·Solo
SaaSAI / ML
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