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Carving out a $6.3k MRR niche in a saturated market

$6.3K MRRPostFast, SendHeron

Crossing $25k MRR on a newsletter that he launched 72 hours after getting laid off

$25K+ MRRExtra Points

From broke and idealess to building a $100k/mo AI services company

$100K MRRZoro

Making $9k/mo with a mobile app until platform risk took its toll

$1.5K – $9K MRRRemodex, Synara

Hitting $1M ARR in two years and working four hours per day

$83K+ MRRsysteme.io

Hitting $40k+ MRR with bottom-of-funnel content until AI search forced her to change tactics

$40K+ MRRSlides With Friends

Pivoting an internal tool into a 7-figure business

$83K+ MRRGleap

Building a $2M ARR product after his $8M ARR product failed overnight

$167K MRRZipchat

Launching countless apps until one gained momentum and hit $3.3.k MRR

$3.3K MRRLeadverse

Analyzing markets for months before finding the right idea and building a 5-figure MRR product

$10K+ MRRSavvyCal

Growing a talent marketplace to $2.5M+/yr after two years of losses

$208K+ MRRThirstySprout, ChoppingBlock.aio

Building for himself and growing his portfolio to $10k+/mo

$10K+ MRRAI Directories

This full-time data scientist built a $7k/mo portfolio of side projects

$6.5K MRRQuestgen.ai, Supermeme.ai, AiArtist.io

Side-hustling for three years before going all-in and hitting $6.4k MRR

$6.3K MRRSocialKit, PostPeer

Exiting his agency and hitting $10k MRR within 60 days of launching his SaaS

$25K+ MRRLancer

Leveraging a marketplace and existing user bases to hit a 5-figure MRR in two years

$10K+ MRRAI Toolbox

Hitting $15k/mo by purchasing defunct domains and building for pre-existing demand

$15K MRROnwardTravel, DirtSignal, PrismClip

Failing 6 times before hitting a 7-figure ARR in 10 months with no code

$83K+ MRRFaceless.video

After five failed products, this founder quit his job and hit $7.5k/mo in 12 months

$7.5K MRRFilip Panoski

A 5-figure-MRR success after a failed product buried him in debt

$10K+ MRRKlipy.ai

Carving out a $1M+/yr niche out of the Microsoft ecosystem

$83K MRRPckgr

Launching an app builder in 2 weeks and hitting $10k MRR within a year

$10K+ MRRAppAlchemy

Building a free Chrome extension in 3 days and turning it into a 5-figure-MRR ecosystem

$10K+ MRRSuperpower ChatGPT

Hitting $15k/mo six months after getting sued and acquired

$15K MRRNinjaPear

Hitting $125k MRR as a solo founder by doubling down on the right segment

$125K MRRZigpoll

Hitting $29k MRR by building an audience first

$29K+ MRRRightBlogger, Refresh

Turning a developer tool into a $50k MRR lifestyle business

$50K MRRShift

Hitting $3.3k MRR in two months while working a full-time job

$3.3K MRRJobric

Building a passion project to 1k users after a $120k exit

$400+ MRRTallow

From $20 ghostwriting gigs to a 6-figure-MRR personal branding agency

$100K+ MRRThe Birdhouse

Building a 5-figure-MRR software review site

$10K+ MRRTool Finder

From physical product to $10k/mo app

$10K MRRFloga

Hitting $35k MRR after struggling to make money online for four years

$35K MRRPost Bridge

From freelancer to 7-figure-ARR productized service

$83K+ MRRDraftss, Deliveryman

Hitting $16k MRR after years of failed products

$16K MRRBlogToPin, Sequenzy

Diversifying to break a $1.6M/yr plateau

$133K+ MRRBarn2 Media

Growing an open-source product to $1.3M ARR in two years

$113K MRRPostiz

Theo Browne on how he's bringing in over $1M/yr as a creator and founder

$100K+ MRRT3 Chat, T3 Code, Ping.gg, UploadThing, PicThing

Building a product in 48 hours and hitting $30k MRR as a non-technical founder

$30K MRRLaunch Fast

Gaining an $11M ARR foothold by taking on an outdated incumbent

$915K MRRRecruit CRM

Finding business-founder fit and bringing in mid-six figures per year

$25K+ MRRBuilder Methods, Clarityflow, The Panel Podcast

From zero to $10k/mo app portfolio in a year

$10K MRRSTOPPR

Building a $4k/mo portfolio after an undiversified marketing strategy tanked his $800k business

$3K+ MRRTappy, Archetype

Dropping everything to seize a 7-figure-ARR opportunity

$83K+ MRRStackby

Bootstrapping a popular Git client to a 7-figure ARR and getting acquired

$83K+ MRRTower

From simple theme to $65k/mo ecosystem

$65K MRRClevision

Partnering up with a content creator to hit $50k/mo

$50K MRRMonAi, Mindr, Re-Frame, Max

Building a portfolio and growing it to $3M/yr via YouTube

$250K MRRIndexsy, LocalRank.so, Trackings.ai, IndexChex, RankTack

Building a $20k/mo portfolio and finally going all-in on a 17-year-old product

$20K MRRBold, Sprint Zero, Pidro

Shattering the 7-figure ceiling after a 4-year plateau

$83K+ MRRDropInBlog

Growing an AI orchestration platform to $3k MRR in 4 weeks

$3K MRRMeerkats

Leaving his VC-backed company to bootstrap a product to $1M ARR in 10 months

$83K+ MRRZernio

Building a $15M+ ARR SaaS from a gap he found at his brick-and-mortar

$1.25MM+ MRRRentman

Building a $1.7M/yr tech-enabled consultancy by productizing a repeatable 2-week service

$142K MRRFletchPMM

Hitting $7M+ ARR thanks to the pressures of bootstrapping

$580K+ MRRKonnect Insights

Growing a fully bootstrapped email-marketing platform to $37M ARR

$3.1MM MRRFlodesk

Maintaining $340k/yr revenue while halving agency workload and headcount

$28K MRRGarcy Studio

Hitting a 7-figure ARR by building a community into his product

$83K+ MRRFocusmate

Hitting $500k ARR in four months

$41K+ MRRKNOWIDEA

Getting fired and using it as motivation to build a successful niche portfolio

$15K+ MRRaiCarousels.com, ResumeMaker.Online, GeneratePPT.com,

Expanding from a micro-SaaS into a 7-figure-ARR business

$83K+ MRRSteady

Hitting a 5-figure MRR with an open-source portfolio

$10K+ MRRLivewire

Building, failing, rebuilding, and then hitting $30k MRR in a year

$30K MRRRightMessage

Growing to an 8-figure ARR in three years with savings-based pricing

$800K+ MRRSpendbase

Growing a GEO tool to a mid-five-figure MRR within a year

$25K – $75K MRRLLM Pulse

Des Traynor on building and growing Intercom to $400M ARR

$33MM+ MRRIntercom, Fin

Growing a blogging side hustle into a 7-figure media brand

$83K+ MRRThe Rideshare Guy, The Driverless Digest

Growing a fully-autonomus business to a $500k/mo in 3 months

$500K MRRPolsia

Competing on price to carve out an $18k MRR foothold

$18K MRRYouform

Building a $15k+ MRR services company to fund SaaS development

$15K+ MRRUmlaut Consulting, Data Maturity Lab

Pivoting to reach a wider audience and hitting a 5-figure MRR

$42K MRRKommodo

Acquiring micro-SaaS products and growing them to $120k MRR

$120K MRRNoosa Labs

Building a fully-agentic engineer and growing it to $500k ARR

$42K MRRpre.dev

From simple newsletter to $4.5M/yr media company

$375K MRRTangle

Hitting $25k+ MRR by making his goals less ambitious

$25K+ MRRScreenshotOne

Quitting his job with no plan and hitting $14.5k MRR with a hybrid agency

$15K MRRAI Podcasting

Building a $30k/mo portfolio within eight months of quitting his $420k/yr job

$30K MRRAI Never Sleeps, Pear

Bootstrapping to 7 figures while competing with best-in-class tools

$83K+ MRROutseta

From broke to $100k MRR in four years

$100K MRRMagai

Staying close to customers and hitting $16k/mo

$16K MRRSEO Utils, Ring Tonic

Hitting $10k+/mo by using an agency as both testing ground and distribution

$10K+ MRRTopliner

Building an AI tool in a half-day hackathon and hitting $20k/mo

$15K – $20K MRRAudioPen

Bootstrapping a $20k/mo AI portfolio after his VC-backed company failed

$20K MRRStarpop, AI Flow Chat

Hitting a $5M+ ARR and selling for $35M

$450K+ MRRSocial Snowball

Building a mobile SDK and expanding it into an 8-figure-ARR portfolio

$4MM+ MRRNutrient

Rebuilding after his ARR plummeted by $600k

$50K+ MRRCrowdTamers

Doubling down on directories to hit $13k/mo

$13K MRROpenAlternative, Dirstarter

Hitting $23k MRR in six months after five failures

$23K MRRSuperX

Building an autonomous business and closing in on $1M ARR

< $83K MRRSwan AI

Bootstrapping an investment bank to $100M+ deal volume

$0 MRRDiscretion Capital, TinySeed

Building an app portfolio to $60k/mo after Apple froze his developer account

$60K+ MRRSarafan Mobile

Getting millions of impressions and hundreds of paying customers in 24 hours

$10K+ MRRFlightcast

From open-source donations to $13k MRR product

$13K MRREmailEngine, Nodemailer

Building a product in 20 hours and growing it to a 5-figure ARR

$1K+ MRRBlogMaker

Taking the leap and building a 6-figure-ARR portfolio

$8.3K+ MRRIACrea, Feedbask, Subclip, Refindie

Validating via services before building a $27k MRR product

$27K MRRGojiberry AI

Getting an multi-million-dollar foothold in a crowded market

$83K+ MRRSignWell

Hitting $10k MRR in six weeks with an AI design tool

$10K MRRSleek

Hitting a 7-figure ARR with a strategic partnership

$83K+ MRROutrank

Growing a portfolio of mobile apps to $185k/mo

$185K MRRPayout

Hitting $10M ARR with RPG-style programming courses

$8.3MM MRRBoot.dev

Growing the first AI-native financial DaaS to a 7-figure ARR

$400K+ MRRFiscal.ai

From $0 to $62k MRR in three months

$82K MRRKleo, Mentions

Realizing his business was a $1M ARR trap

$83K MRRrewired.one, rewired.co, Icebox

Hitting $30k MRR with an AI marketing product

$30K+ MRRLeadmore AI, Modelfox AI

Building a $100M ARR portfolio of products

$8.3MM+ MRRsaas.group

Growing an MVP-building service to ~$15k/mo

$15K MRRUniqueSide, UseArticle

Learning to code and building a $28k/mo portfolio of SaaS products

$28K MRRCapacity, StoryShort, Artemis

From failed app to 30-app portfolio making $22k/mo in less than a year

$22K MRRARTMVSTD

Hitting a 7-figure ARR after one failure and one exit

$80K MRRLeadDelta

Pivoting from product to tech-enabled productized service and growing to $50k/mo

$50K MRRSales.co

Growing a template portfolio to $30k/mo

$30K MRRTemplifica

From ten years of failed products to $10k/mo and five acquisitions

$10K MRRNo Code Founders, Tiny Empires

Turning a neglected, 17-year-old side project into a $26k/mo business

$26K MRR750 Words

Monetizing two open-source projects and hitting a 6-figure ARR

$8K+ MRRTaskforce.sh, BullMQ, Castmill

From single experiment to portfolio of templates bringing in $9k/mo

$15K MRRPentaclay

Building a $51k/mo ecosystem of small apps

$51K MRRSwifteq

$8k MRR within a year after pivoting to productized services

$8K MRRDesignpop

From failed SaaS to $14k MRR software-enabled service

$14K MRRCentori

Building a venture studio from $0 to mid-five figures per month

$50K+ MRREvernomic

Growing a tool to 1.2M registered users with almost zero marketing

$10K+ MRRJDoodle

After two failed products, this founder dogfooded his way to $10k/mo

$10K MRRFlowHunt

Building a successful niche product as a wedge into a bigger market

$8K+ MRRLeadTrackAI, TheSolarAI

After burning through his savings and going into debt, this founder built a $42k MRR portfolio

$42K MRRAngel Match, Investor Hunt, Journalist Hunt, Pur Social

How a sucker punch and a broken jaw led to a 5-figure MRR business

$10K+ MRRNVSTly

Building a mobile app portfolio to $15k+/mo

$15K+ MRRHabitKit

Sunsetting two businesses, exiting another, and joining a 5-figure-MRR business as cofounder

$10K+ MRROutmap, Uploadcare

This founder grew his product to $6M ARR by taking advantage of being small

$500K MRREdusign

Joining a technical co-founder and growing the product to $45k MRR

$45K+ MRRSimple Analytics, Unihosted, Leadsontrees

Dialing in an AI product's ICP and growing it to $400k ARR

$33K MRRRunbear

Carving out a small niche in a big market and bringing in $10k+ MRR

$10K+ MRRInbox Zero

Leaving an antiquated industry to grow an AI-native platform to a 7-figure ARR

$300K+ MRRSupademo

From full-time job to full-time maker and back to a job again — with a side hustle

$2K MRRBlackTwist

After losing his job, this founder grew a portfolio of indie hacking tools to $10k/mo

$10K MRRMakerBox, FounderPal. Lead Magnet Examples

This founder grew his site's monthly traffic to 120k before building a $30k MRR product

$30K MRRStandOut CV, LinkQuest

From freelance tester to 7-figure MRR testing platform

$1MM+ MRRTestlio

Building an SEO product to $14k MRR in a crowded market

$14K MRRSiteGuru

Acquiring a micro-SaaS and quitting his job after years of side hustling

$12K+ MRRCloakist, Sotion

The challenge of building a 7-figure business with first-mover advantage is educating the market

$83K+ MRRParakeeto

Bootstrapping a portfolio of products to a 7-figure ARR

$83K+ MRRDesignmodo, Siter, Static, Pulsetic, Unspam, Absurd

Getting acquired twice in a span of two years

$83K+ MRRClosify, Payd

Teaching himself to design and building a $25k/mo productized design service

$25K MRRContrast Studio

From hospitality to growth agency making $3M/yr

$250K MRRTaste Network

Building a $10k/mo B2B SaaS boilerplate for multi-tenant apps

$10K MRRSaaSRock

Growing a web monitoring tool to $1M ARR by building in public

$83K+ MRROh Dear

Filling the gap of AI security and nearing a 7-figure ARR

< $83K MRRPangea

From free Ruby-on-Rails course to 7-figure ARR ecosystem

$83K+ MRRGoRails, Hatchbox

Harnessing social listening to hit $11k/mo

$11K MRRGravity, Alertly

The journey from $0 to $10k to $0 and back to $10k MRR again

$10K+ MRRSetter AI

Quitting his venture-backed startup to make $300k/yr from small bets

$25K+ MRRMotivation Stack LLC

Reluctantly building a productized agency and hitting $1M/yr in two years

$83K+ MRRConversion Factory

From layoff to $15k/mo agency and $9k/mo M&A marketplace

$24K MRRMicrons, Quanti Coders

Leaving a funded startup and bootstrapping to $1M/yr in 18 months

$62K+ MRRSubscribr

Hitting a high 6-figure ARR thanks to first-mover advantage and an AI tech moat

$41K+ MRRDubverse

Getting acqui-hired after seven years of building

$14K+ MRRLinguix

Paying the bills with a $13k/mo business while testing product ideas

$13K MRRLaunchFastPro, Casal Innovations Lda.

From failure to $1M ARR in 8 months

$83K+ MRRRosie

From weekend experiment to $20k/mo business

$20K MRRStagetimer

Hitting $12k/mo with a boilerplate

$12K MRRSupastarter

Hitting $100M ARR in eight months with an AI software builder

$8.3MM+ MRRLovable

Growing a scraping API to $10k+MRR in 12 months

$10K+ MRRScrape Creators

From desperation and dwindling runway to $10k MRR

$10K MRRSetter AI

Hitting a 7-figure ARR by adding value in niche communities

$83K+ MRRQueue

This chronic side hustler just hit $26k in 30 days

$26K MRRBrainrot

From game development and bug bounties to a $40M/yr product

$3.3MM+ MRROneSignal

Pivoting from an agency to a $961k/yr product

$80K MRRLifterLLMS

Funding his experiments with a $130k/yr micro agency

$11K MRRTalkThrive

From media brand to agency to $1.4M/yr holdco

$100K MRRQuantum Leads

Bootstrapping to $40k MRR after his VC-backed startup failed

$40K MRRMy AskAI

Hitting $2M ARR in two years even though he was "late to the AI party"

$167K MRRAdaptify

Going from building to buying and hitting $12M/yr

$1MM MRROnfolio

Hitting a $1.6M ARR plateau but refusing VC funding

< $83K MRRSnappa, GoodMetrics

Hitting a 7-figure ARR within a year by building the first AI-native option in a crowded market

$83K+ MRRFlagright

Closing in on $50M with an AI coding agent by building for next year

< $4MM MRRAugment Code

Building a 7-figure marketing agency

$83K+ MRROmniscient Digital

From blogger to $21M/yr media tech powerhouse

$1.75MM+ MRRBlack & White Zebra

Hitting a 5-figure MRR within a year by giving his AI coding tool away for free

$10K+ MRRRepo Prompt

Upleveling from productized services to tech-enabled services and hitting $5M/yr

$466K MRRTestimonial Hero, Product Hype

Starting with a productized service and building a 7-figure product around it

$83K+ MRRCastos

Acquiring Baremetrics and setting his sights on $10M ARR

< $800K MRRBaremetrics

Hitting $1.2M ARR within a year with productized design services

$100K+ MRRBaked Design, Movevirtual

Creating a manual process and turning it into a 7-figure AI product

$83K+ MRRSamplify

Building an agency from $0 to $2M/yr

$167K MRRInboxDone

Building the impossible and making $100k in the first three months

$50K MRRNativePHP

Getting serious about marketing after hitting $500k ARR

$42K+ MRRFormula Bot

Hitting $500k ARR in two years by staying close to her customers

$42K MRRMindPal

Making $3M+ per year with a free product

$250K MRRPhotopea

Building an app with zero experience and growing it to 3M+ downloads

$10K+ MRRRootd

From $0 side hustle to $20M/yr powerhouse

$1.67MM MRRVecteezy

From life-changing exit to a $200k/mo business teaching AI competency

$200K+ MRRMindstone

After 11 failed products, this founder hit $45k MRR in a little over a year

$45K MRRPapermark

Hitting a 7-figure ARR by taking on deepfakes and fraud

$200K – $300K MRRFacia

After making $1M+ from consumer apps, this founder jumped ship and went all in on B2B AI SaaS.

$8.5K+ MRRCreatorKit

Killing his AI product after growing it to $250k ARR within a year

$20K MRRMarblism

Building a $30M/yr portfolio after an 8-figure exit

$250K MRRGrowth Assistant, Aux Insights, Unbloat

Building one of the first AI-headshot products and hitting $900k/mo in 3 years

$900K MRRAragon

Building a product with AI in four days and hitting $12k in four weeks

$29K MRRTrendFeed, CodeSpring, ChatIQ

Quitting his job and growing an AI product to $3M ARR in 12 months

$250K MRRSalesforge

Hitting $35k/mo and 1M+ followers by focusing on content first

$30K – $35K MRRPrompt-Genie, Map-This, Looplytic

Hitting $12k MRR just 11 months after turning a free side project into an AI business

$12K MRRMockey

From zero to $1M ARR in 36 days by publicly messing with Big Tech

$110K MRRInterview Coder

This founder isn't a designer, but he built a $150k MRR design service anyway.

$150K MRRWizard Venture, Magier

Hitting 250M+ downloads with a mix of virality and cutting-edge tech

$0 MRRReface

Pivoting a too-technical product into a $50k/mo business

$55K MRRShortPixel, FastPixel

Making $30k/mo from an AI product with a perpetual license

$18K – $34K MRRBoltAI, PDF Pals, KTool

After 10 years of building side hustles, this founder built a $25M+ ARR success.

$2MM – $8MM MRRCAKE.com

From $0 to $3.5M ARR by pivoting from data analysis to API-based data delivery

$250K – $290K MRREODHD APIs

Living the creative lifestyle she always dreamed of thanks to multiple revenue streams

$2.4K MRRLogology

From failed startup to 5-figure MRR agency with an AI product

$10K+ MRRBy Default

From employee to freelancer to $451k/yr agency

$38K MRRARCTOS, NoomShot, FounderStories

From a cleaning side hustle to a $3M/yr SaaS for cleaning services

$250K MRRZenMaid

Pivoting to a 6-figure MRR AI business

$100K+ MRRLindy

Getting out of the freelancing game by building a $100k+ MRR Shopify app portfolio

$100K+ MRRKaching Appz

From viral side project to a $5M/yr B2B AI platform

$417K+ MRRChatbase

Growing an open-source side hustle to $2M ARR

$167K MRRBrowserless

Pivoting a simple messenger into a $50M ARR customer service automation platform

$4.2MM MRRYellow

Growing the first-ever AI product design tool to $3.5M ARR and getting acquired

$292K MRRUizard

Acquiring an AI micro-SaaS and building it to $58k MRR within two years

$59K MRRCuppa

Using a newsletter to build a $20k/mo consulting business

$20K MRRFor The Interested, Clients From Content

Growing an AI product to $70k+ MRR within a year via YouTube

$70K+ MRRJournalist AI

Hitting $5M ARR in a saturated market by doubling down on branding

$416K+ MRRBlaze

Hitting six figures within three months of launching an AI bootcamp

$30K+ MRRSide School

Hitting a 7-figure ARR within two years by focusing on quality and letting the product speak for itself

$80K – $800K MRRHeptabase

Using "quadratic funding" to make a living building free software

$13K MRRNexth, ETH Gas Tracker, useWeb3, Music Journal

50,000 teams use this founder's product because she saw the AI wave coming and timed her launch accordingly

$100K+ MRRKraftful

Building a $1M/yr podcasting SaaS after "accidentally" becoming a podcaster

$80K+ MRRAlitu, The Podcast Host

How a risk-averse founder hit $500k/yr while playing it safe

$40K MRRRemote Work Prep

Exiting his first B2B SaaS for a life-changing $32.5M

$241K+ MRRGymdesk

Stuck at $300k ARR until pivoting to an unlikely industry took his product to the next level

$83K+ MRRContent Snare

Growing a productized service to the coveted milestone of $10k MRR

$9.8K MRRDesignPulse

Years after selling MicroConf, Mike Taber is making $24k MRR from his products while building yet another.

$20K – $26K MRRBlueTick, FounderCafe, InboxFusion

Building a standalone AI product as a competitive advantage for his $3.6M/yr service business

$300K MRRDataDiggers, Brainactive

From $15/hr to $2M/yr in six years with "beef as marketing"

$167K MRRTaskMagic, Mailead

Finding product-market fit in a fast-paced and competitive market

< $10K MRRVelvet

Increasing revenue by 3x by pivoting a simple directory into a Product Hunt alternative at the right moment

$6.7K MRRUneed

Crossing 8 figures in ARR by operating a funded YC company like a bootstrapped product

$833K+ MRRStreak

Accidentally becoming a founder with two exits under his belt

$100+ MRRFounder Gigs

Building a 7-figure SaaS by sacrificing immediate income for future revenue

$100K+ MRRSegMetrics

Growing a back-end development curriculum from a side project into a $441k MRR business

$441K MRRboot.dev

Making $30k+/mo as a business coach after a high-speed meltdown

$20K – $25K MRRFearless Business

From refusing to charge for his products to making $500k+ ARR

$42K+ MRRPostpone

Self-funding to get from side project to full-time business in 4 years

$500 MRRAqtos

Intentionally tanking the revenue of a $1M+ ARR lead-gen agency to improve profit margins and quality of life

$67K – $75K MRRLead Cookie

Growing a productized service to $9k MRR in 1.5 years while working a full-time job

$9K MRRJim Designs

Breaking out of an accounting career by building a portfolio of no-code products and services

$5K+ MRRBullet Launch, The NoCode Solopreneur, Create With

Bootstrapping a portfolio of apps to $28k MRR after angel investment killed his SaaS

$28K MRRSwifteq

Building a $10k/mo newsletter with 75k subscribers in 4 years

$10K MRRProduct Strategy, Klu

After 8 years in B2B SaaS, Ryan Kulp made $200k in 5 months with his first hardware product.

$140K+ MRRTRMNL, Fera, GetReviews, Hacker House

From employee to fractional CMO and marketing creator making $6k/mo

$2.5K – $11K MRRKickstart Side Hustle

Creators are using faceless videos to gain millions of followers

$0 MRR

Growing a productized service to $10k MRR in 18 months with no audience or network

$10K MRRDesignfly

Taking his broad-appeal newsletter and making it super niche earned this creator $125k+

$500 MRRGrowth Currency

Pete Codes quit the worst job imaginable to build a business to $10k/mo with zero experience

$5K – $10K MRRNo CS Degree, High Signal

Solo founder carved a $25k/mo niche out of a saturated market by undercutting the competition

$25K MRRLiinks

26-year-old dropped everything to build a better life. 17 years later, he's making $29k MRR.

$24K MRRSwifteq

“I’m building an ancient Greek cinematic world. Here’s how Blender courses and social media are funding it.”

$3K – $5K MRRMartin Klekner, Heroes of Bronze

How I leveraged social media and built in public to hit $4k/mo with my browser extension

$4K – $5K MRRTailscan

Growing Carrd to $2M ARR in a crowded market with zero marketing by limiting features

$167K MRRCarrd

From 0 to $20k/mo and 356k followers by building Notion templates in public

$20K MRREaslo

Here's how I made $20k in three days with a web scraping course

$7K MRRThe Ultimate Web Scraping Course, Scrape Creators

I grew an SEO agency to $20k/mo. Now I want to hit $10m ARR with backlink automation.

$20K MRRMagicSpace SEO, SEOAudit.me, LinkDR

Growing ChartMogul to ~$10M ARR via strategic partnerships

$667K – $1MM MRRChartMogul

Here's how Tibo sold two products for $8M, and why he'll never do it again.

$28K MRRrevid.ai, feather.so, superx.so

How going viral on X helped this solopreneur reach $15k/mo with his native AI apps

$5K MRRBoltAI, PDFPal, KTool

Growing a simple Notion extension into a $37k/mo form-builder business

$37K MRRNoteForms, OpnForm, AirFormTable

25-year-old marketer quits his job to launch his MVP: "I can live on any amount as long as I'm doing what I love."

$400 MRRAutoAE

We built a $12k/mo AI chatbot generator while exploring England with our baby

$8K – $12K MRRChat Thing

Saving lives and making a side income with an emergency aircraft tracking app

$2K – $4K MRRAirAssist, WaterBomber

Alex Turnbull grew Groove to $5M ARR. Here's how he plans to grow his new product to twice that much.

$417K MRRGroove, Helply

Turning a simple B2B solution into a $15k MRR SaaS by exploiting a market niche

$15K MRRStagetimer

26-year-old gets comfortable with yet another failure by limiting risk

$0 MRRArmor Wallet

How building in public got my habit-tracking mobile app to $15k/mo

$7.8K MRRHabitKit, Liftbear

How Emmanuel Straschnov created a new market and grew Bubble to 3M+ users

$1.67MM – $8.33MM MRRBubble

These digital nomads bootstrapped three SaaS startups to over $7.5k/mo while exploring the globe

$7.5K+ MRRLeave Me Alone, Ellie, StartKit.AI

Turning a side hustle into a startup studio for best-in-class apps making $6k/mo

$6K MRROscar Stories, Branding5, FragDas PDF

33-year-old prepares to leave his job, house, and everything else behind

$110 MRREmail Emu

Building a money management SaaS without a coding background

$1K MRRStrabo

Working towards financial independence with an API SaaS while raising a family

$8.5K MRRScreenshotOne

Growing a payments SaaS to $13k MRR as digital nomads on opposite sides of the world

$13K MRRCheckout Page

Bootstrapping a fintech product to $108k MRR by limiting it to a small market

$108K MRRParqet

Making $30k/mo but strategically operating at a loss

$30K MRRAdsby

Making $10k+/mo as a full-time founder after building 120 side hustles

$10K MRRMubs, GuestLab, MicroAssets, Once.Tools, SideprojectsMVP

Growing a side hustle into a $10,000/month SaaS boilerplate business

$10K MRRsupastarter

How a travel influencer and an indie hacker launched a voice AI SaaS in two weeks

$99 – $3.5K MRRSetterAI

Turning cold email into a $90k MRR business while traveling the world

$90K MRRSales.co

Getting acquired for $200k within 11 months by leveraging Facebook ads

$1.2K – $15K MRRSales Popup, Maker Ads Guide

$27,577/mo in passive income from a lifestyle business: "My partner jokes that I’ve been trying and failing to run out of cash."

$28K MRRAdelante, Thank You GPT, ClearSight

Leveraging Product Hunt for evergreen side-hustle growth

$750 MRRZlides, Abstract

How Florin Pop became an influencer and grew a portfolio of edutainment products to $5,000/mo

$5K+ MRRiCodeThis

Becoming an influencer with 42k followers but struggling to find product-market fit

$300 MRRVim for VSCode, TS Course, Cowork With Friends

38-year-old gets $660k pre-seed funding after two exits: "Starting a business is the only way to become rich from scratch."

$7.2K MRRPlugBear

How Sahil Lavingia ditched venture capital and grew Gumroad to $20M/yr

$1.67MM MRRGumroad

34-year-old finds financial freedom through day trading and uses it to build a $10k/mo fintech product

$7K – $10K MRRNVSTly

Takuya Matsuyama leveraged viral content to grow his SaaS to $10k+ MRR and become a YouTube influencer

$10K+ MRRInkdrop

Building a $5k/mo lifestyle business by leveraging lifetime deals

$5K MRRBetter Sheets

29-year-old founder making $12k/mo is trying to build the next unicorn

$10K+ MRRBeep

Building an AI side hustle to $8,638/mo in an unfamiliar industry

$9.4K MRRIACrea, NextJSDirectory

30-year-old founder launches an AI product and goes from broke to financial freedom with $190k MRR

$190K MRRStealthGPT, AIBypass, RapidResume, AIDetect

From $0 to $15k MRR by taking a product from a crowded Web2 market and building it for Web3

$15K MRRBlockSurvey

How a young entrepreneur hit $32k MRR with product-led growth and SEO

$32K MRRSenja

Here's how Jim Raptis left the VC funding world behind and built a portfolio of bootstrapped products with $6.5k+ MRR

$6.5K MRRMagicPattern, BrandBird, SuperMotion

This guy makes $20k/month selling Notion templates. Here's how you can do it with any online product.

$20K MRRNotion Template Marketplace

How TikTok's first engineer spends $3M in funding for his $5k MRR open-source project

$5K MRRILLA Cloud

The SaaS growth strategy that helped a first-time founder build a real estate investment SaaS to ~$9k/mo

$7K – $9K MRRBrightInvestor

27-year-old founder only needs $106/mo to get by. You can cut costs too.

$1.3K MRRMoAIJobs, Chat My Brain, Wandpen, Real Work From Anywhere

From epic startup failure to a successful $16,345/mo portfolio by creating a business template

$16K MRRAngel Match, Investor Hunt, Pitch Deck Database, Journalist Hunt

27-year-old founder keeps costs at $1/mo to achieve financial freedom faster

$0 MRRDymolab

Growing a fintech product to $12k/mo by leveraging Discord

$8K – $12K MRRNVSTly

SaaS growth tactics that grew a simple product to $40k MRR in 18 months

$40K MRRSupademo, Freshline

47-year-old freelancer has 10 side hustles and 8 of them are making money

$15K+ MRR

From $0-$14k/mo with a tech-for-good recruitment platform

$14K MRRGenvalues

45-year-old founder takes on $1M+ in debt: "It's a calculated investment in stability and growth."

$0 MRRAlternative AI

This founder used parts of her failed first business as building blocks for a product now making $40k MRR

$40K MRRSlides With Friends

Growing from $0 to $186k MRR in 15 months

$190K MRRStealthGPT, AIBypass, RapidResume, AIDetect

35-year-old nomad puts 85% of his wealth into Bitcoin to escape a collapsing financial system: "Get out while you can."

$7K MRRGoleko, BaunIT

After two exits, Dmitry Dragilev built his latest product to $12k MRR pre-launch. Here's how.

$12K MRRTopicRanker

From $0 to $45k/mo by ditching the marketplace and selling products on his own platform

$45K MRRThemeSelection, PixInvent

32-year-old lawyer quits to become an indie hacker and lives on just $286 per month

$210 MRRProductLogz

Acquiring a marketplace and growing revenue from $3M to $5M within a year

$272K MRRSkyhook, Sauce, SerpsBot, KeyClusters

From illegal immigrant working odd jobs to $11k/mo web hosting platform

$11K MRRSimplenet

Only taking home €75k/yr with a $4.5M/yr business

$380K MRREdusign, AppScho

Funding a new project by selling $500k in lifetime deals

$25K MRRLeadDelta

Durable distribution channels that led to $50k MRR

$50K MRRTaro

"Start with something straightforward." A pre-revenue founder shares all of his business and living expenses.

$0 MRRWill AI Do This?, Sudoku for Kindle

Growing a portfolio of products to $255k/mo with good, old-fashioned SEO

$255K MRR48hourslogo, LogoAI, uBrand, Linktopia

"If you don't have a good grasp of your inflows and outflows, you don't have a sustainable business."

$50 MRRFlowsage

Becoming the market leader with 10x fewer features

$380K MRREdusign, AppScho

Monetizing an open-source project ($18k MRR)

$24K MRRTaskforce.sh, BullMQ, Castmill

Growing two productized services to $40k+ MRR

$40K MRREditorNinja

"If money is your only goal, you’ll fall short.”

$1.1K MRRColdClicks, Pixel

How I successfully grew Metana to $104K in revenue in just under 3 months

$30K MRRMetana.io

"Don't be afraid to let your ideas fail."

$34K MRRFormWise

"It's funny how much money free things can make."

$10K MRRPicjumbo

I sold my 4th SaaS as a solopreneur. The backstory.

$7.8K MRRShipped.club

I sold my 4th SaaS as a solopreneur. The backstory.

$1 MRRuserdesk, hivoe, inbox

Hitting $3.4k with 6 months of runway left

$3.4K MRRWrapFast

$600 MRR in 6 weeks for our AI email personalization tool

$600 MRRColdClicks

I made $500 in a month with a product built using 3 no-code free tools

$500 MRRsendgoodemails

Maintaining steady growth during times of war ($20k MRR)

$20K MRRScrapingAnt

Growing to $6.8M and 1M followers in 5 years

$25K MRRJustin Welsh, The Saturday Solopreneur

Wasting $300k on the way to $20k/mo

$26K MRRCalendesk

How we built an AI search engine for devs that makes $30k/mo

$30K MRRDevv

Chasing passion (over profit) to $34k MRR

$34K MRRLunch Money

“Buy time and move fast.”

$1.8K MRRSpell, Chatwith, Actionize, Plugin.surf, Gobble.bot

From internal tool to $50k MRR

$50K MRRKarma Bot

Claiming a $20k/mo piece of a crowded market

$20K MRRCalendesk

From layoff to $5k MRR in one month

$5K MRRCapsule

How Masud Hossain grew Queue to $1 million+ revenue in three years

$134K MRRQueue

Productized service: Got my 1st client (€2500/m) with 100% upfront payment

$2.5K MRRGrowthPulse Studio

How Jay Clouse makes $600k in 2023 from the Creator Economy

$50K MRRThe Lab, Creator Science, Upside

“Don’t make a move until you know how you’ll measure the impact.”

$10K MRRSinging Carrots

Going from €1.5M/yr to zero and getting back on the horse

$80 MRRAlways Open, Robo Reimburse

Winning SEO by building free AI tools

$20K MRRMakerbox, FounderPal

“They won’t write my net worth on my grave.”

$900 MRRInbox Zero, ShareMint, Draft Fantasy

“Work on your business; not in it.”

$32K MRRExploding Ideas, Sleepy Sound

Lukas and Liz make $10k a month selling countdown timers

$10K MRRStageTimer

How Nicholas Robb built a six-figure business around his lifestyle to beat burnout

$30K MRRDesign Hero & Life By Design

This side hustler gave away 50% of his belongings

$3K MRRBackl.io, SEO Kickstarter

The flywheel that's getting Kevin Indig close to his $1M/yr goal

$100K MRRGrowth Memo

"Selling my business was a mistake.”

$50K MRRPaw

Breaking Down the Costs of a Bootstrapped SaaS with $11,000 Monthly Revenue

$11K MRRKeepthescore.com

Our AI personal assistant SaaS just hit $6k MRR with almost 0 paid marketing. Here's how we did it!

$6K MRRolympia.chat

Building an AI product before it was cool ($500k ARR)

$42K MRROneTake AI

Noah Kagan on building a million-dollar business in a weekend for free

$6.67MM MRRAppSumo

49% MRR growth in 24 hours with one pricing change

$400 MRRhttps://www.presspulse.ai/

A filmmaker built a SaaS product with no-code and sold it for $15k

$200 MRRJump Studios

$0-3M ARR: My 7 Biggest Mistakes

$250K MRRframe.so

Tim Bennetto – The Solo Founder Who Built a $74k MRR Social Media Tool After Teaching Himself to Code

$74K MRRPallyy

Getting from freelancer to agency to product ($50k MRR)

$50 MRRUpvoty, Zero to SaaS, Feedefy

From 0 to 25k€: First year as a solopreneur creating a scheduling app

$2 MRRsheduled.so

How after 4 failed projects, I made $1,000 in 40 days

$1 MRRSEO Stuff

The yearlong process of selling a business for $3.5M

$140K MRRBootstrapped Bites

$50,000 revenue in one year

$3 MRRHabitkit, Liftbear, Windiary

Making $2M building and selling blogs

$67K MRRFlip My Site, Founder Reports

Hitting $144k ARR within 5 months

$12K MRRpre.dev

From $7k to $25k: My Second Year Of Non-Technical Founder In Review

$25 MRRWP Umbrella

From $300 to $2,500 MRR: My 2023 Journey as a Solopreneur

$2 MRRGPT Hotline, YOU-TLDR, PlainScribe, Shorts Generator

Hitting 9 figures after 20 years of bootstrapping

$8.33MM+ MRRLensa

A 2.5 million revenue startup built with no-code

$84 MRRBetter Legal

How I launched my new product and made $7k in 5 days

$7 MRRZylvie.com

How we launched Simple Analytics AI

$25 MRRSimple Analytics

To get acquired, remove yourself.

$850K MRRBig Band Software

My first win as an indie hacker, $100 MRR to $4k sale on autopilot: full breakdown

$100 MRRblocs.me

"Success sucks. All the fun happens along the way."

$18K MRRUnicorn Platform

"Stop building. Start buying." Andrew Pierno on building over 40 products.

$40K MRRXO Capital

I sold my AI tool for $35,000

$2 MRRMakeLanding

Generating $200K monthly revenue with an online photo editor

$200 MRRPhotopea

How KarmaBot Made $62k In 1 Month

$62K MRRKarma Bot

"The key is to invest little, launch fast, and kill fast."

$141K+ MRRPICKASO, iPadizate, Cantanding, The Open Projects, TheTool, DimeQuien

Lessons from bootstrapping my side project to $10,000 monthly revenue

$10 MRRKeep the score

Building a $1M ARR portfolio of side hustles with a full-time job

$81 MRRXO Capital revenue, Cold Email Studio, Super Send

Marc Louvion’s unconventional approach to marketing that grew Ship Fast to $43k monthly revenue in 2 months

$43 MRRShip Fast

Distribution is more important than product

$5K MRRSignHouse, CH Group

Generating $1,500 in 3 months for an AI tool, then selling it for $30k

$500 MRRVisualizeAI

10 tools we are using at our SaaS (5k/month) built with no-code

$5 MRRAudionotes

Hitting 100k ARR from an AI tool that was first built to solve an internal problem (scoping out projects is annoying).

$8 MRRpre.dev

How I made $1,023 within 10 days of product launch

$3 MRR1photoai

Building an AI startup That Does $425k ARR: 57 Business Questions Worth Asking

$27 MRROne Take AI

Bootstrapping to $10k MRR with 2 employees: Here is StageTimer's story

$5 MRRStageTimer

"Product-market fit is a gut feeling."

$24K MRRSimple Analytics, Fiks

$12,000 in 4 months with zero marketing spend

$3 MRRPodnotes

From laid off to creating my SaaS and generating $8K MRR with my productized service

$8 MRRBreew

The SaaS Growth lever than took me from $10k to $60k MRR with no employees

$60 MRRThe Saas Bootstrapper

Tony Dinh hit $22k in 11 days by decoupling input from output

$45K MRRTyping Mind, DevUtils, Xnapper

How I made $27k in 2 months from 2nd Startup

$17 MRRMida.so

I sold 2 micro startups in 2023—here's what I learned

$530 MRRGame Widget, Habits Garden

My AI SEO SaaS Just Launched to $3k MRR With Zero Paid Ads

$3 MRRPost Cheetah

8 Lessons I learned from Tally

$60 MRRTally

10 years without making a single dollar online

$8.3K+ MRRNo Code Founders, Tiny Empires

Case Study: ShipFast made $63K in Revenue in 60 Days

$0 MRRShipfa.st

Hitting $20k MRR in 6 months without marketing

$23K MRRMagai

From $0 to $10 Billion. The story of Notion

$80 MRRNotion

Building a $74k MRR product as a rookie coder

$74K MRRPallyy

"They say it's a dark pattern. That's a cowardly, lose-win way of doing business." Jay Tan talks growing to $30k/mo.

$30K MRRZlappo

$70k MRR within three years through product-led growth. Marie Martens shares her flywheel.

$70K MRRTally

Selling a $1M+ ARR business, but struggling to find product-market fit with his next product. Valentin Pichard shares his journey.

$5K MRRNaker

Kyle Nolan finally turned his side hustle into his main hustle at $200k ARR (but kept his job)

$17K MRRProjectionLab

How being arrested for cyber crimes led to a $100k MRR business. Steven Goh shares his growth journey

$100K MRRProxycurl

An Acquisition Marketplace built with No-Code with $3,000 MRR

$3 MRRTiny Acquitions

Buying and growing SaaS products to a total of $50M ARR. Tim Schumacher shares how he does it.

$4.17MM MRRsaas.group

From $400/mo to $188,000/mo in 3 years. Marko Saric of Plausible tells us how he did it.

$188K MRRPlausible Analytics

Mac Martine shares how he ideated, bootstrapped, and white-labeled his way to $58k MRR

$58K MRRCastanet

How I accidentally created a generative AI tool that's made $73,000 in 2 months

$36 MRRAudiopen

Building 6 products in 6 months, and selling 5 of them — Muhammad Taimoor's 3-tier model11

$7K MRRVocally

Leveraging no code and influencers to hit $3k MRR in 2 months — David Bressler of Excelformulabot

$3K MRRExcelFormulaBot

Getting MRR before you build — Daniel Abebe on how he hit $530 MRR with nothing (not even a landing page)

$530 MRRHuggyStudio

Where to reinvest your revenue — Phil McParlane on going full-time and outsourcing SEO

$1K+ MRR4dayweek

Idea to profitable software product in 5 days: Hieu Nguyen on MVPs and LTDs

$1K MRRRebit, Get Started, Captain Stack, ishim

How I Launched and Grew My Startup by 500% During the COVID Crisis

$2.6K MRRThankbox

How I Went from Making Websites for Fun to Ramen Profitability

$200 MRRPayRequest

How I Went from Near-Bankruptcy to Running an $88k MRR Business

$88K MRRCG Cookie, Mavenseed, Blender Market

How My Least Marketed Game Became My Most Viral Success

$300 MRRRosa's Garden

How Reinventing Spreadsheets Got Me to 4K Customers in Under 1 Year

$40K MRRStackby

How I Turned My Freelance Frustrations into a $4k MRR App

$4K MRRSocialBu

How a COVID-19 Lockdown Inspired Me to Start My Business, and Grow It

$10K MRRSupercreative

How I'm Using My Senior Year of College to Build a No-Code App

$2.5K MRRDiscord Bot Studio

Why freemium pricing is the secret to $4k MRR for my productized service

$3.5K MRRLogolix Free, Logolix Pro

Making $8K/mo by Solving the Information Problem in Politics

$7.9K MRRTangle

How I Used Influencers to Market My Offshoot Product

$336K MRRCG Cookie, Blender Market, Mavenseed

How I Stay in Love with My Side Project

$250 MRRSacramento, Stones of Solace

How I Grew My Business to Six Figures With SEO

$12K MRRSelectSoftware Reviews

How I Found Side Project Success Without Using Big Name Apps

$710 MRRSongRender

Creating Successful Indie Games With an Art Background

$400 MRRUnearth U

How Profit-Sharing and Reinvesting Helped My Business Grow to $40k MRR

$40K MRRDesignmodo

Why I Created a Third Party App for My Day Job's Product

$3K MRRPipechat

Why expanding my product catalog helped me reach $40k MRR

$44K MRRStencil Stop

Building a Hobby Project That Pays for Itself

$420 MRRscreenshotapi.net

The Solo Founder Growing a Social Media Empire

$5K MRRCulture Crave

How Building Better AI Makes My Marketing Easier

$4K MRRContentyze

How We Found Profitability In An Ultra-Specific Niche

$3.5K MRRJiga

How I Keep My Side Project Manageable And Profitable

$1.5K MRROnline Solitaire

Growing a Subscription Newsletter by Teaching Others to Do the Same

$500 MRRBlogging Guide

How I Started a Business While Starting a New Family

$1K MRRGhostwriter AI

How We've Grown in a Competitive Space by Eating Our Own Dogfood

$4.1K MRRStock Alarm

Scratching My Own Itch Let Me Quit My Day Job and Bootstrap Full Time

$3K MRRStandard Resume

Reaching Ramen Profitability as a Comic Artist Turned Self-Taught Dev

$450 MRRThe Character Creator

How I Run a Revenue-generating Newsletter Without Burning Out

$400 MRRDev Tips

How we grew our high school hustle into an agency making over $1 million per month

$1.1MM MRRHappy Cog

How I Used My Small Successes to Bootstrap My Biggest Project Yet

$3.4K MRRRent Round

How I'm Delivering Enough Value with My Newsletter to Charge for it

$700 MRRInfluence Weekly

How I Grew a Profitable Newsletter after Failing to Monetize My Blog

$1.9K MRRDealflow.es

No Code. Many Competitors. Here's How I Still Make $10k/Mo.

$10K MRRContentellect

How I Bucked Tradition and Found Success in a Crowded Market

$2.7K MRRUnicorn Platform

How I'm Making a Living Building Resources for Self-taught Devs

$2.3K MRRNo CS Degree, Bootcamp Index, No CS OK

I Couldn't Find Startup-focused Youtubers. So I Turned Myself into One

$3K MRRWill Kwan

How We Created a Profitable Game, Just to Prove That We Could

$500 MRRCard Crusade, Barnard's Star

How I Grew My Retirement Project to Profitability

$31K MRRQuotaGuard

How I Grew My App to $14k/Mo by Using Other Apps' Data

$14K MRRHello Code, Exist

How the App I Built for My Own Wedding Grew to a 2.5k/Mo Business

$2.5K MRRHitchd

How I Used Wordpress and Online Video to Bootstrap to $11k/mo

$11K MRRVimeography, Andoto

How We're Growing Our Business by Solving Our Own Problems in Public

$1K MRRSquarecat, Leave Me Alone

Leaving a Low-Autonomy Design Career to Build a Product Business

$15K MRRLogo Package Express

Growing to $10m and Selling the Business We Launched in High School

$1MM MRREasyBib, Solitaired

The Business Idea That Got Me Out of $30K in Nursing School Debt

$20K MRRObjection Co

How I've Built and Grown a Conglomerate of Indie Businesses

$250K MRRSaaS.group, DeployBot, Juicer, Snip.ly

How I Built a Thriving Business by Never Planning Ahead

$17K MRRRebel Book Club

Quitting My VC-Backed Startup to Become an Indie Hacker

$9K MRRCGWire

Bootstrapping to $12,000/mo as a Non-Technical Founder

$12K MRRRemotive

Growing a Tech Interview Prep Business from $0 to $300K in One Year

$25K MRRExponent

How I Gained Traction and Became Profitable After Almost Quitting

$4.5K MRRPage Flows

How I'm Using Neuroscience to Build a Successful Newsletter

$800 MRRNess Labs, Teeny Breaks, Maker Mind

How We Turned Two Failures into a $2,500 MRR Success

$2.5K MRRScrapingBee

How Our Personal Project Has Almost Replaced Our Freelancing Income

$4K MRRQuickAdminPanel

How We're Gaining on Big Competitors by Serving Small Niches

$25K MRRPHPJabbers.com, VEVS.com

Why I Don't Focus on Generating a Quick Profit

$2.2K MRRHealthchecks.io

I Ran My Side Hustle During Work Hours. Now It Makes Millions.

$500K MRRFlux, Floify

Solving a Problem to Help Every Company While Staying Efficient

$10MM+ MRRNextiva

Growing a Sustainable Business Despite a Tough User Market

$10K MRRSutori

From Hobby Product to 3,000 Users/Month

$500 MRRMillennial Moderator

From Internal Tool to $85K/month SaaS Product

$85K MRRPayKickstart

Overcoming Poverty to Plan and Build a $20K MRR Business

$20K MRRDesignPac

Quitting Facebook to Bootstrap a SaaS Business

$45K MRRCanny

Leveraging a Social Movement for My Growing Side Hustle

$500 MRRAnarchoCoffee

From Amazon seller to SaaS startup founder making $6,500/mo

$6.5K MRRAZLabels

How I Jumpstarted Product Growth by Taking the Full-Time Plunge

$1.5K MRRSecrets, Survs

Bootstrapping to $7.5MM by Letting My Product Speak for Itself

$625K MRRJivoChat

Overcoming the Expectation of "Free" to Build a Profitable Product

$1.8K MRRNight Eye

Solving a Problem for Myself (and 80,000 Other Users)

$610 MRRRequestly

Bootstrapping from Idea to $2MM ARR in Three Years

$250K MRRChili Piper

How I Grew My SaaS to $1K MRR by Rewarding Early Adopters

$1.1K MRRCheckly

From Offhand Side Project to $600K in Just 12 Months

$50K MRRGitScrum

How Building to Earn Drove My Product to $7.3K MRR in One Year

$5K MRRKarma, Sliday

Growing to $40K MRR by Doing Influencer Marketing the Right Way

$40K MRRStone, Bookblock

Reaching Ramen Profitability by Doing One Tiny Thing Well

$350 MRRHappyfeed

How I Capitalized on an Established Market and Grew to $3K/mo

$3.2K MRRPQINA, Doka.js, FilePond

How I Found Opportunity in Another Product's Deprecation

$3.4K MRRImage-Charts

Finding the Right Audience and Bootstrapping to 5,000 Users

$1.2K MRRSiteGuru

How a Few Wrong Turns Led Our Product to $1,000/Month

$1K MRRDashly

Escaping the "Trough of Sorrow" and Growing to $5K/Month

$5K MRRConvertify

Making $15K/Month By Switching My Freemium Product to Paid

$15K MRRfullPage.js

How Surprising Feedback Led to a Change of Plans and $5.5K MRR

$5.5K MRRTripetto

How I Scratched My Own Itch and Discovered an Untapped Market

$1K MRRSmile Bright Media, Linguix

How I Built a Better Team and Grew Revenue to $50K MRR

$50K MRRSysteme.io

Converting My WordPress Solution into a $500/Month Side Project

$560 MRRSimple Giveaways

Becoming the first customer of my own e-commerce business and growing to $20k per month

$20K MRRUbuntu Baba

How Building My Own WordPress Solution Evolved into $24K MRR

$24K MRRFlyPlugins

Changing Business Models to Find Sustainable Growth

$1K MRRPaddle Logger

How Talking to Customers Grew My Business to $70K/Month

$70K MRRReferral Rock

From Burnout to $2,300 MRR in 18 Months

$2.3K MRRCharged

What I've Learned from Buying a Business Instead of Founding One

$1.8K MRRIntroCave

How I Stopped Underpricing and Reached a 90% Profit Margin

$2K MRRGet Invited, Gravity, Everview

How We Make $12K/Month by Starting a Conversation

$12K MRRmkdev.me

Bootstrapping my "company of one" without a line of code

$22K MRRMakerpad

Bootstrapping My Daydream into a $20K/Month Business

$20K MRRAnchor Hosting

How I Kept My MVP Lean and Reached $15K/Month

$15K MRRPingBid

How Launching a Membership Model Grew Our Revenue by 300%

$55K MRRMoonlight

Overcoming Technical Roadblocks to Achieve $1 Million ARR

$70K MRRE-junkie

Hustling Hard to Build a $20K/Year Product

$1.7K MRRZeptolytics, Zepto

How We Bootstrapped an Open-Source Project to $120k/Month

$120K MRRimg.ly, PhotoEditor SDK

How We Built a $1k/Mo Passion Project While Working Full Time

$1K MRRWater Cooler Trivia

Bootstrapping a SaaS to Fill a Key Market Gap

$30K MRRJustReachOut

Pausing Our Digital Agency to Build a $20k/mo WordPress Plugin

$20K MRRPowerPack for Beaver Builder, IdeaBox Creations, WooPack, PowerPack for Elementor, WPfomify

How I Turned Design Castoffs into a Profitable Community Marketplace

$400 MRREpicPxls, EpicCoders

How I Aligned My Side Project with a New Full-Time Career

$250 MRRKeyCuts, Cooperatize, Coda

How I Beat Maker Paralysis with an $800/mo Side Project

$800 MRR1Kprojects

How a Software Testing Problem Led Me to 26% Monthly Growth

$150K MRRLambdaTest

How I bootstrapped my side project into a $20k/mo lifestyle business

$20K MRR750 Words

Generating $10,000 Per Month from a Freemium Business Model

$10K MRRCozmoslabs, TranslatePress

How I Fell in Love with Typography and Literally Wrote the Book on It

$2.1K MRRBetter Web Typography for a Better Web

How I'm Balancing Multiple Companies, My Family, and a Passion Project

$14K MRRairfocus, WeLevel

Confronting My Fears in the Hope of Retiring Early

$3K MRRPure React, Pure Redux

How I Went from Bartender to Side Hustler to CEO by Doing What I Love

$2K MRRLast Call Trivia, Last Call Trivia Flex

Growing a Spin-Off Business to a Standalone Success

$51K MRRKontentino

How Building a Community Helped Us Grow to 10,000 Users

$7K MRRPlutio

How I Overcame Rejection and Built a Business by Focusing On Community

$11K MRRHireClub

How I Quit School and Learned to Launch a Successful Product

$4K MRRCustomerly

How We Reached $50k/mo Despite Some Big Mistakes Along the Way

$49K MRRPlain Jane

I Started Gumroad as a Weekend Project and Now It’s Making $350k/Mo

$350K MRRGumroad

How I Learned to Code, Quit My Job, and Bootstrapped a Solution

$18K MRRJoin It

Bootstrapping a Hardware Product to 7 Figures Despite Student Debt

$100K MRRConduct Science, Qolty, Maze Engineers

Quitting Our Jobs to Follow Our Callings

$1K MRRHallow

How We Went From Problem to Product by Building for Ourselves

$22K MRRStatful

Pushing Past Imposter Syndrome to Turn My Passion Into a Business

$14K MRRScribly.io

How I Went Looking for Inspiration, Found It & Launched Successfully

$700 MRRVisaList

How I’ve Grown a No-frills Service to $4,000/Mo in Revenue

$4K MRRSolidGigs

How "Slow and Steady" Is Getting Us to Our Goal of Ramen Profitability

$300 MRRBurner Mail

How Taking Back My Privacy Inspired a Product That Became a Business

$13K MRRGraphite

Disrupting the Healthcare Industry while Balancing a 9 to 5

$1K MRRSQRL

How I Noticed a Gap, Built a Solution, and Made It My Side Gig

$1.5K MRRHTML Email

How I Turned Knowledge (and Joblessness) Into a Profitable Product

$1.2K MRRProbabilistic Programming Primer

My Desire to Learn from My Customers and How It Led to a New Business

$2K MRRFeedier

Building a Tool to Help Me Focus, and How It Became My Third Business

$2K MRRCheckli

How We Grew to $6K MRR while Maintaining our Health and Sanity

$6K MRRBoxy Suite, Boxy, Sblack

From Frustration to Saas, How I Turned a Tough Task into a Business

$3K MRRReftab

How I Hit $115k/mo with a Status Quo Improvement

$115K MRRGMass

How I Got In Shape and Started a Side Hustle in the Process

$0 MRRDevLifts

Taking the Leap Despite Looming Debt, and Figuring It Out As I Go

$1.2K MRRTee Tweets

10 Years Honing My Product as a Solo Entrepreneur

$9K MRRSciter

How A Close Call with Bankruptcy Became My Inspiration for an App

$1.1K MRRPoindexter

My Journey from Unemployed to Entrepreneur and Y Combinator Alum

$6.9K MRRRevenueCat

How I Built a Scalable Product that Fuels My Business (and Vice Versa)

$3K MRRThePodcastHost.com, Alitu

Moving Beyond Self-Doubt to Write a Handbook Grossing Over $50k

$400 MRRThe Coworking Handbook

How I Risked It All by Building a $24k/mo Business With My Spouse

$24K MRRPaperform

How We Started Strong in a Tumultuous Marketplace

$25K MRRCryptoSuite

From Laid-Off to Industry Trailblazer with $16MM in Gross Revenue

$1.61MM MRRMonetizeMore, PubGuru

Taking On an Entrenched Dating Monopoly with Passion and A/B Testing

$1K MRRSweet Pea

My Side Hustle’s Journey from Boom to Bust to (Hopefully) Boom Again

$7K MRRMovingCompanyReviews.com, Scripted.com

Bootstrapping My Side Project into a $1.4MM SaaS Business

$120K MRREverhour, Weavora

Building a Business out of My Own Self-Improvement Project

$9K MRRDailyWritingTips.com

Leaving Gainful Employment for a Passion Project

$4.5K MRRAmio.io

How I Started a Business With Two Lines of Code

$380 MRRSimple Analytics

Growing a Product for Marketers With the Help of an Industry Insider

$730 MRRContento

How We Combined Our Skills and Passions to Build a Business

$5K MRRBooctin

Turning the Worst Part of My Job into a Successful SaaS

$26K MRRScopeLeads

How I Took a Risk to Achieve My Dream of Building a Product Business

$5K MRRFeedCheck, TheWebMiner

Growing My First App to Profitability With No Marketing Experience

$700 MRRQotoQot

Using My Biggest Struggle as the Launchpad for a Successful Business

$700 MRRFocusmate

Quitting My Miserable Day Job to Build and Grow a Profitable Business

$53K MRROneUp

Growing My Side Hustle to Hundreds in Monthly Revenue Without Code

$200 MRRPear

How I Overcame My Gaming Addiction and Built a Business to Help Others

$8K MRRGame Quitters

Eating Our Own Dogfood to Grow a Productized Service to Profitability

$47K MRRLead Cookie

Turning Frustration into a $35k/mo Product that Helps Teachers Excel

$35K MRRFeedbackPanda

How We Overcame Failure to Bootstrap a Company Generating Millions

$200K MRRMobi Lab

How Shifting Market Demands Inspired Us to Build Our First App

$1.5K MRRVeme.ly

Growing a Knowledge-Sharing Community to Six Figures in Ten Months

$31K MRRFrom The Future, NK Tech, semantic.io, Traffic Think Tank

Growing My Side Project to Profitability Despite a Three-Hour Commute

$200 MRRMentorCruise

The Market Lacked the Tool We Wanted. So We Built it Ourselves.

$1.5K MRROh Dear!

Building an Award-Winning Product With No Previous Business Experience

$500 MRRInterviewBuddy, InterviewBuddy Pro

How a Serial Entrepreneur Turned a Problem into a Profitable Business

$50K MRRHelpmonks, Razuna

Focusing on Quality over Quantity to Increase Revenue by $10k/yr

$8K MRRAlkalab, Woffice, Feedier

Generating $7,500/mo Teaching the Craft That We Love

$7.5K MRRCreator Arcade

How Viral Marketing Has Upped Our Monthly Revenue to $53,000

$53K MRRNIPYATA!

Using Insight and a Mailing List to Make $1.5k/mo from a Side Project

$1.5K MRRWPComplete

Scaling a One-Man Operation into a Million-Dollar Business

$90K MRRHuman Proof Designs

How We Saved Australians $100K by Working Evenings for Three Months

$300 MRRGroceryGetter

Getting Out of a Rough Financial Spot to Build a Successful Agency

$10K MRRWegacha

How I Built a Health and Happiness Community with Bots and Humans

$500 MRRMindful Makers

Turning a Discouraging Launch into a Profitable Growth Story

$1.5K MRRPastel

Riding Out Failures to Bootstrap a $220k/mo SaaS Company

$220K MRRMangools, KWFinder, SERPChecker, SERPWatcher, LinkMiner, SiteProfiler

How We Quit Our Jobs to Bootstrap and Grow Our Own Business

$35K MRRFollowup Edge

How We've Launched and Grown Our First Profitable SaaS Business

$5K MRRUserGuiding

From Idea to Profitable Business on the GitHub Marketplace and Slack

$3.5K MRRPull Reminders

Making Sales at Launch by Solving a Common Problem in a Better Way

$1.5K MRRUserInsights

Going All in With Our Savings to Build a Business on a New Platform

$6K MRRStanduply

How I Automated My Salary Job, Quit, and Launched My Own Startup

$1K MRRSkaffolder

Growing a Bootstrapped Side Project from $20,000 to $250,000 a Month

$250K MRRLiveAgent, Post Affiliate Pro

Overcoming My Insecurities to Make $600/mo in Truly Passive Income

$600 MRRExcel for Marketers, Ladder

How I Built and Began to Grow My Company without Spending My Savings

$35K MRRNightwatch, RankTrackr

How We Solved Our Own Problem and Brought the Solution to the Market

$1.8K MRRLeadChat, PoweredLocal, Bankfeeds.io

Growing to $4,000/mo by Scrubbing Embarrassing Content from the Web

$3.8K MRRScrubber

Building Levels.fyi in Coffee Shops and Growing to Profitability

$5K MRRLevels.fyi

Pushing My Side Project Forward in the Face of Real-Life Obstacles

$1.1K MRRSanityCheck

Generating $300/mo in Passive Income With an API for Proxy Servers

$300 MRRSpinProxies

Growing to $40,000/mo Helping Developers Ace Programming Interviews

$40K MRRAlgoExpert

Building and Growing a WordPress Plugin for Managing Online Reputation

$2.5K MRRStarfish Reviews, WordXpress

How I Learned From Past Mistakes to Build a Revenue-Generating Product

$1K MRRWriteMapper

Building a Directory of Tools and Resources for Non-Technical Makers

$490 MRRNoCode, BetaTesta

Quitting My Job and Going Full Time to Grow My SaaS Company

$1.4K MRRInputKit

Navigating the Challenges of Growing a Virtual Phone System

$50K MRRNinja Number

How a Just-for-Fun Instagram Account Inspired Us to Build a Business

$5.5K MRRTwoo, Katt.

How We've Grown a Profitable Cryptocurrency Education App

$800 MRRAltcoin Fantasy

How My Newsletter for Developers Generates Subscription Revenue

$2K MRRVersioning

Building and Growing a Marketing Automation Tool for WordPress

$10K MRRWP Fusion, Very Good Plugins, Fatal Error Notify

From $0 to $10k/mo with a Geoparsing/Geocoding API in Under Two Years

$10K MRRgeocode.xyz

Moving Quickly into the Crypto Market and Seeing Explosive Growth

$450K MRRCryptoProfitBot

Avoiding Feature Creep and Growing a Profitable Coding Newsletter

$2.9K MRRDaily Coding Problem

Growing to $5k/mo by Filling a Technology Gap in the Fitness Industry

$5K MRRMartial Arts on Rails

Getting Ahead of the Cryptocurrency Wave and Generating Early Revenue

$30K MRRCBlocks

Going to Market with the Crypto Portfolio App I Wanted for Myself

$1K MRRBitfolio

How Transparency and Good Timing Helped Me Capitalize on New Tech

$5.8K MRRReact Native Starter Kits

Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry With Rigorous Experimentation

$40K MRREndcrawl

Growing a Window-Management App for Mac to $1,500/mo

$1.5K MRRFenêtre

Starting and Growing a Conference for Internet Entrepreneurs

$35K MRRMicroConf

How We Turned Coding Screencasts into a Million-Dollar Business

$275K MRRegghead.io

How I Productized a Skill That Others Were Willing to Pay For

$10K MRRwpSaaS

Finding Inspiration Abroad, Shipping Fast, and Growing to $50k/mo

$50K MRRManyPixels

Growing a Profitable Podcast on Software Engineering

$45K MRRSoftware Engineering Daily

Turning My Expertise with Asana into a Profitable Side Business

$800 MRRAsana Superheroes

How We've Grown the Product that Scratched Our Own Itch

$100K MRRUploadcare, RIDERS, Whitescape

Transitioning from Design Shop to Subscription-Based Plugin Business

$24K MRRBarn2 Media

Capitalizing on New Tech to Grow Our Apparel Business to $1,000/mo

$1K MRRDULO

Growing a Social Proof Marketing Platform to $88k/mo in Revenue

$88K MRRFomo

How I Pivoted and Found Product-Market Fit Selling Online Jewelry

$9K MRRVivalatina

How Starting Small Helped Me Build a Server Backup Company

$1.1K MRRSnapShooter

Making Millions in Revenue by Helping Indie Artists Get Paid

$1.2MM MRRRepost Network

How I Built and Grew PeakFeed to $500/mo in Revenue

$500 MRRPeakFeed

Growing a Lead Generation App to $150,000 in Monthly Revenue

$150K MRRLeadsBridge

How I Bootstrapped a Site Builder to $6,000 in Monthly Revenue

$5.5K MRRPagestead

How I've Grown My Headless Browser Business to $1,000/mo

$1K MRRbrowserless

Building, Growing, and Selling an Education Technology Business

$40K MRRHelpTeaching.com, BigMailer.io

Building and Launching a Search Engine for Geek Merchandise

$2.7K MRRDiscoverGeek, OtziShirts

Growing a Body Measurement App to $3,000 in Monthly Revenue

$3K MRRBody Tracker

Growing a Facebook Preview Editor to $1,600/mo

$1.6K MRRShareKit.io

Growing a Web Marketing Tool for Real Estate Agents to $100k/mo

$100K MRRWeb4Realty

How to Build a Million-Dollar WordPress Plugin Business

$191K MRRSandhills Development

$25,000/mo Connecting Online Businesses With Growth Experts

$25K MRRCredo, EditorNinja

How to Make Recurring Revenue Managing WordPress Sites

$15K MRRWP Buffs, WPMRR

Social Media Platform as a Service: Growing to $8k/mo

$8.3K MRRMySocialApp

Growing a Sound Effects App for Mac to $1,000/mo

$1K MRRmenuBUS

How to Grow a Wedding Place Card Business to $400/mo

$400 MRRPlace Card Me

Rails and Revenue: How to Build a Screencast Business

$15K MRRGoRails, Hatchbox.io

The Million-Dollar Pivot: Cell Phone Unlocks as a Service

$400K MRRdoctorSIM

How a Rails Programming Book Generated Thousands in Revenue

$6K MRRPhoenix for Rails Developers

How I Built a Cryptocurrency Trading App That Makes $4k/mo

$3.5K MRRACrypto

How I Leveraged Partnerships to Build My Online Course Audience

$6K MRRNo Shame Income

Building a Service That Motivates Others to Write Every Day

$3K MRRWriteaday

Turning a Programming Retreat into a $35,000/mo Business

$35K MRRHacker Paradise

Finding a Niche and Launching a Gay Video Chat Platform

$370 MRRPotato Labs, Banana

Growing to $4,000/mo by Utilizing Several User Outreach Methods

$4K MRRToolwatch.io

Generating $25,000/mo Offering Wikis to Company Slack Teams

$24K MRRTettra

Living Off Our Savings and Growing Our SaaS to $740/mo

$14K MRRDependabot

Pivoting From a Digital Agency to a $3k/mo SaaS Company

$3.3K MRRWidgetic

Generating $70,000 Per Month Through Organic Growth Methods

$70K MRRYet Another Mail Merge

How to Create and Market a Resume-Building Service

$590 MRRResume Beacon

Growing an Interviewing Platform for Programmers to $170k/mo

$170K MRRCoderPad

Growing a SaaS App on the Amazon Platform to $550/mo

$590 MRRJungleFlip

Channeling Our Love of Social Media Into a Profitable Business

$240+ MRRKapwing

Making 6-Figures Helping Developers Add E-Commerce to Their Sites

$33K MRRSnipcart

How a New Father Built an iOS App For Other New Parents

$100 MRRBaby Growth Chart Percentile

How a Point-of-Sale SaaS Business Makes $900/mo

$970 MRRQuail

Growing My B2B Real Estate Crowdsourcing Tool to $25k/mo

$25K MRRSpace Jam Data

Leveraging 3rd-Party Platforms to Stay Ahead of the Competition

$15K MRRPremiumCoding

Using Excel Experience to Build a Profitable Online Community

$4.5K MRRTrumpExcel.com, Productivity Spot

How a Hobbyist Game Developer Launched a Game That Generates $2,500/mo

$2.5K MRRCogmind

How I Regained Momentum After a Post-Launch Traffic Slowdown

$6K MRRSociety Socks

Why I Spent Thousands on Early Customers, and How It Paid Off

$25K MRREditionGuard

Going Against a VC-Funded Competitor to Grow to $400/mo

$400 MRRPostcard Panda, WrestlingIQ

I Used to Get Distracted by Email. So I Built a Tool to Stay Focused.

$1.2K MRRInbox When Ready

Creating a $100,000/mo Business That Helps People Learn to Code

$100K MRRBubble

Building a Company to Meet My Own Needs and Selling It in 2017

$10K MRRPayfunnels, Proof

Building a Community by Capitalizing on a Growing Trend

$0 MRRBotList

Growing My E-Commerce Product to $1.5k/mo in Twelve Months

$1.5K MRRSnappies

The Productivity App That Helped to Build and Grow Itself

$450 MRReverydayCheck

How to Build and Grow Your Own Workout App for Mobile Devices

$4.2K MRRHercules

Selling to Developers by Building for Ourselves First

$2.8K MRRCool Code, RunCloud.io

Failing to Find a Developer, and Building the Product Myself

$7.2K MRRWeddingLovely

Making $2,000/mo Disrupting Investment Bank Recruiting

$2K MRRThe Lobby

Using Viral Tools to Attract Customers and Make $1.7M/year

$145K MRRJitbit

Reaching $300/mo in the Fourth Month With a Fun Side Project

$330 MRRPongUp

How Life Abroad Helped Me Launch to $1,500 in Half a Year

$1.5K MRRDollar Flight Club

How I Followed the Money to Build a $3k/mo Office Showcase

$3K MRROfficelovin'

Overcoming Feature Creep and Growing Revenue to $43,000/mo

$43K MRRDemio

Validating in the Field and Bootstrapping to $7,500/mo

$7.5K MRRVacayrx

Growing to $5k/mo Through Clever Marketing and Validation

$5K MRRStay22

Using a Multifaceted Marketing Strategy to Grow to $960/mo

$1K MRRContent Snare, Aktura Technology, Silver Siphon

Growing a Consulting Business into a Virtual Assistant Company

$275K MRRWorldwide101

In It for the Long Haul: Growing From 20¢/day to $110,000/mo

$110K MRRI Want That Flight

Leaving My Equity Trading Career to Build a WordPress Business

$30K MRRMH Themes

Launching a Profitable Startup Without Technical Founders

$400 MRRGetMeToEurope.com

Growing a Hemp Oil Business to $70,000/mo in the First Year

$70K MRRPopulum

Building a Co-Founder Dating App to Solve My Own Problem

$2K MRRFounder2be

Building and Growing a Tool That Motivates Writers to Write

$1.3K MRRBlankPage

Waiting Until Our Idea Was Validated to Write a Line of Code

$17K MRRrmotr.com

Making $6k/mo Taking a Scientific Approach to Chess Education

$6K MRRChessable

A Crash Course on What It Takes to Produce Online Courses

$5K MRR-1

How My Self-Published Book Solved Niche Problems to Reach #1 on Amazon

$3K MRRPractical Golf

Brennan Dunn's Quest to Sell SaaS Without an Audience

$78K MRRDouble Your Freelancing, Planscope, RightMessage

My Journey Going From Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur

$1.5K MRRGoDesignerGo

Building and Growing an Innovative Carpool Business

$1K MRRRidj-it

Building a Solution to a Problem I Found at a Local Fitness Club

$27K MRRPunchpass

How Becoming Too Popular Endangered My WordPress Business

$16K MRRProteusThemes

A Newsletter for Driving Traffic Became My Top Revenue Source

$3K MRRSidebar

Finding a "Ready-Made" Audience and Growing to $20,000/mo

$20K MRRArkServers.io

Using Trial and Error to Grow ClusterEngine to $20,000/mo

$20K MRRClusterEngine

Building a 7-Figure Business by Becoming a Definitive Resource

$100K MRRExamine.com

Using My Coding Blog to Validate and Attract Paying Customers

$2K MRRDSM Website Plugins, SociableKIT

Turning an Internal Company Tool to a $6,500/mo Side Business

$6.5K MRRBugfender, Mobile Jazz

Divide and Conquer: Growing to $170k/mo by Delegating Tasks

$170K MRRMatboard and More

Marketing Across Many Channels to Generate $3k/mo in Revenue

$3K MRRPubler

Designing and Shipping the Cards Against Humanity for Startups

$1.5K MRRDisrupt Cards

How a Previous Failure Helped Me Build a $5k/mo Business

$5K MRREpic Plugins, Epic Themes

Identifying Consumer Demand Before Building My Travel Service

$125K MRRSourced Adventures

Passing $1M/yr by Leveraging the Power of Word-of-Mouth Referrals

$120K MRRShoppe

Shipping Fast and Growing My Side Project to $550/mo

$600 MRRKernl.us

Using Data-Driven Marketing to Grow My Business to $8,000/mo

$8K MRRFlystein

Clarifying Our Messaging and Launching a Novel Business Idea

$500 MRRCrowdraising

Building a $3,000/mo Review Service as a Solo Founder

$3K MRRReview Signal

Building and Launching an Invoice Payment System

$100 MRRForum Education, Felix

Besting the Competition and Building a $40k/mo Review Site

$44K MRRSite Builder Report

Growing an App That Simplifies Email Marketing to $1,500/mo

$1.5K MRRBuildMyEmails

Using SEO to Grow My Niche Mapping Company to $2,000/mo

$2K MRRFree Vector Maps

Scott's Cheap Flights: From Small Side Project to Booming Business

$320K MRRScott's Cheap Flights

How I Validated My Idea and Got 1,000 Email Subscribers in a Month

$800 MRRGourmet Pup Club

Growing by Staying Scrappy, Affordable, and Approachable

$10K MRRIntrinio

Filling a Gap in the Market and Growing Revenue to $60,000/mo

$60K MRRMailbird

Growing a Revenue Analytics Platform to $83,000/mo

$83K MRRBaremetrics

How a Problem at Work Led to a Profitable Product Idea

$1.5K MRRQuickDraw

How I Built a Suite of Mobile Apps That Made Over $240,000

$12K MRRGifShare, GifLab, GifLab+

Learning From Past Failures to Create a $50,000/month Site

$50K MRRThemeIsle

Becoming an expert and writing an e-book that makes $750/mo

$750 MRRAngular on Rails

Overcoming Publishing Hurdles to Build a $10k/mo Tech Magazine

$10K MRROffscreen Magazine

Building a 7-Figure Email Marketing Tool That Solves the Right Problem

$200K MRRSendPulse

Combining Passive Income Dreams to Create a Viable Business

$16K MRRUX Power Tools

How My Professional Poker Skills Helped Me Grow My Agency

$200K MRRLadder

Generating $50k/mo Helping Users Build Outreach Campaigns

$50K MRRNinjaOutreach, Ninja Academy

Turning My Old Skill Into a Profitable Side Project

$420 MRRUXClub.com

Turning My Small Side Project Into a Business Making $40k/mo

$40K MRRCronometer

The Childcare Industry Lacked an Online Presence. I Capitalized.

$300 MRRDaycareIQ, KidGenius

Overcoming Technical Challenges to Sell a $10 App to 20,000 People

$1K MRRConscious Apps, Life Purpose App

Jeff Atwood on Growing Discourse to $120,000/mo

$120K MRRDiscourse

How Sharing Helpful Knowledge Helped Me Grow to $2,500/month

$2.5K MRRWeather Extension

How I Finally Launched a Side Project and Grew It to $800/mo

$820 MRRBugTower

How Narrowing My Focus Helped Me Profitably Solve a Problem

$4K MRRRecurPost

Identifying a Gap in the Market and Reaching #1 on the App Store

$10K MRRSalem Software

How My Side Project has Helped Me Pay the Bills for 10 Years

$150 MRRGifty Weddings

How I Bought a Business I Knew Nothing About and Doubled Its Revenue

$20K MRRLighting Shoes

Turning My Web Design Knowledge Into a Profitable Book

$1.2K MRRUI Breakfast, Tiny Reminder

Generating $1,000/mo Making Marketing Tools for Developers

$1K MRRAppToolkit.io

The Product and Marketing Strategies We Used to Surpass $20,000/month

$20K MRRSaferVPN

Using Low-Cost Marketing Strategies to Generate $26k/mo

$26K MRRSnappa

Using Automation to Generate $300/mo in Passive Income

$300 MRRHacker News Books

Generating $3,000/mo in Revenue From Mailing List Subscribers

$3K MRRCash Overflow

Making $2.4k/mo Helping Customers Sell on Amazon

$2.7K MRRAccelerList

Generating $3,000/mo After Quickly Creating a Low-Tech MVP

$12K MRRWorkshop

Reducing Churn for an App That I Love by Talking to Customers

$150 MRRQueryfeed

Growing to $750k/mo by Ignoring VC Pressure to Grow Rapidly

$750K MRRMyClean, Inc.

Turned Our Prototype Into a Product and Growing to $5k/mo

$5K MRRFounderkit

Turning My Consulting Revenue into a $16,000/mo Product

$17K MRRAmplifr, Evil Martians

How Learning to Finish What I Started Helped My Business

$350 MRRInsomnia

Growing My Business by Being Patient Where Others Might Rush

$120K MRRLess Annoying CRM

Building a Profitable Tool for Memorizing Human Anatomy

$800 MRRAnatomonics

How My Collection of WooCommerce Plugins Earn $4,100/mo

$4.1K MRRIconic

Making Money From an Open-Source App by Offering Different Versions

$600 MRRwallabag, wallabag.it

Growing to Over 30 Million Downloads by Marketing Globally

$12K MRRVideoder

The Story of ConvertKit: From $0 to $597,000 in Monthly Revenue

$597K MRRConvertKit

Bootstrapping a Marketplace to $1.3M by Talking to Customers

$110K MRRDesignhill

Building an App for the Solar Industry, Growing to $1,000/mo

$1K MRRPhoton

How John O'Nolan Grew Ghost to $750,000/year

$63K MRRGhost

Sourcing a World-First Product to Bootstrap to Over $15,000/mo

$15K MRRmugpods

Identifying a Simple Problem and Growing a Solution to $6000/mo

$6K MRRCronitor

Growing My Business by Bringing New Tech to Recruiting

$3K+ MRRVettery

How I Built a Business Helping People Evaluate Their Ideas

$1.5K MRRIdeaCheck.io

How to Make $1k/mo Running an Online Science Fiction Magazine

$900 MRRCompelling Science Fiction

Building a $3,500/mo Neural Net for Trading as a Side Project

$3.5K MRRStock Trading Bot

Making $45,000/mo Turning Ideas and Designs Into Hardware

$45K MRRBig Blue Saw

Kickstarting Growth by Fighting for Every Early User

$600 MRROvercharge.tv, Streambook.io

Capitalizing on Market Trends to Gain 15,000 Users and $12k/mo

$13K MRRZencastr

The Principles I've Used to Grow Candy Japan to $15k/mo

$15K MRRCandy Japan

Hitting Sales Hard Early On and Growing to $4,000/mo in a Year

$4K MRRIndex Nuke, 301 Nuke

I Inherited a Failed Startup. Here's How I'm Turning it Around.

$500 MRRHandle

Identifying a $1,000/mo Problem by Analyzing Search Keywords

$1.2K MRRMenumake

Exploring the Benefits of Simplicity and Making Hundreds

$380 MRRSmooz

Growing to $6000/mo Through Outsourcing and Automation

$6K MRRPublishing Push

Supporting a Larger Movement, and Earning Over $1.6k/mo

$1.4K MRRFireFTP, FireSSH

Improving My Business by Moving to Where My Customers Live

$300 MRRHomey

How We Bootrapped Grasshopper to $30M in Annual Revenue

$2.5MM MRRGrasshopper

Lessons Learned From 8 Months of Cold Calling and Feedback

$400 MRRProposeful

Growing to $7500/mo By Talking to Customers via LinkedIn

$15K MRRFundraising Report Card

Overcoming the Challenges and Succeeding on the App Store

$600 MRRHello Weather

Finding Validation and Limiting Focus to the Top Income Channels

$650 MRRSimple Steps Code

Using a Freemium Business Model to Grow Revenue to $17,000/mo

$17K MRRCreative Tim

Breaking into Product Management and Building a Community Resource

$6K MRRProduct Manager HQ

Growing to $50k/mo by Bringing Great Design to eBay Listings

$50K MRRCrazyLister

The Valuable Lessons I've Learned About Launching Quickly

$1.1K MRRPageProofer

Building My Gift Registry Side Project From Scratch to $150/mo

$150 MRRGo Registry Hub

How Focusing on Email Marketing Helped Grow My Business

$15K MRRPaleo Meal Plans

Building an Aggregator for Classifieds That Brings in $1k/mo

$1.1K MRRValue Forest

Growing to $1,300/mo by Finding Solid Distribution Channels

$1.3K MRRHTML Color Codes, Dixon & Moe, Monograph

Keeping Things Lean and Growing My Online Course Business

$1.5K MRRHack Pacific

Turning a Quest for Financial Independence Into a $5k/mo Site

$5K MRRReadability-Score.com

Maintaining a Strong Product Vision to Bootstrap to $75,000/mo

$75K MRRPlanio

Creating an AI-Powered Logo Creator and Earning $70k/mo

$70K MRRLogojoy

Growing Through Automation, Social Media, and Experience

$500 MRRWanqu

Making $3,500/mo Writing Tech Thriller Novels

$3.5K MRR-1

How Smart Tech Choices Helped Me Grow to $700/mo

$700 MRRmicroapps, MoonMail

How I Launched My WordPress Side Project and Make $350/mo

$350 MRRKanban for WordPress

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We're Growing to $10,000/mo

$11K MRRCustomFilterz

Building a Profitable Marketplace for Personalized Jewelry

$15K MRRAuGrav

Making a $2k/mo Side Project by Creating Premium Content

$2K MRRPentesterLab

Building, Maintaining, Growing an Anonymous SMS Business

$800 MRRSMS Privacy

Making $2,000/mo in Passive Income by Talking to Customers

$2.4K MRRTerminerinnerung

How Charging Money for Pro Features Allowed Me Quit My Job

$80K MRRSidekiq, Sidekiq Pro, Sidekiq Enterprise

Turning My Personal Tools Into Profitable SaaS Products

$4.6K MRRLabelGrid, BeatTracker, Promo.ly

Getting My Side Project to $1,500/mo by Listening to Users

$1.5K MRRPangoly

How My RSS Feed Reader Makes $3,000/mo From 500,000+ Users

$2.8K MRRfeeder

Reaching $18k/mo With a Strong Team With Domain Knowledge

$18K MRRHumanPredictions

Serving an Overlooked Niche to Grow a Profitable Tech Job Board

$1K MRROld Geek Jobs

Learning to Code and Building an App That Generates $1,500/mo

$1.5K MRREDM Hunters

Bootstrapping to $30,000/mo by Helping Customers Make Sales

$30K MRRAeroLeads

Growing My "Lifestyle" Business to $130,000/mo in Revenue

$130K MRRHubstaff, Hubstaff Talent

Quitting My Job and Starting a Business Now Making $30,000/mo

$30K MRRVariacode, Tuten

How I Reliably Generate $150/mo From a Data-Management Tool

$150 MRRDelim.co

Building a $55,000/mo SaaS Business Promoting Artists' Music

$55K MRRSubmitHub, Indie Shuffle

The Challenges Behind Building, Launching, Marketing My Product

$3.8K MRRUrlbox

Keeping My Side Project Alive and Profitable for 13 Years

$1.1K MRRDnBRadio, LabelGrid

My Lightning Campaign to Sell Hundreds of Presidential T-shirts

$2.1K MRRSlayary T-Shirts

Growing to $10k/mo by Developing an Innovative Business Model

$10K MRRKapa99.com

Creating a Hit Mobile Game and Reaching #1 on the App Store

$7.5K MRRA Dark Room, The Ensign, A Noble Circle

Working Three Jobs to Fund a Business Now Making $12,000/mo

$12K MRRRockin'Robin

Growing Our Small, In-House Side Project into a Powerhouse Business

$45K MRRQuotient

How I Bought a $100/mo Business and Grew it to $7,000/mo

$7K MRRStatbot

My Approach to Creating, Marketing, Launching Courses

$500 MRRlearn.webdriver.io

How Automating Tasks Helped Me Grow Revenue to Over $125k/mo

$125K MRRhumb.ly, file.io, park.io

How I Grew My App to $2.5k/mo Without Learning to Code

$2.5K MRRCredible

Generating $200/mo From a Small Project I Built for Myself

$200 MRRjQuery Cards

Turning a Small App for Myself Into a $17,000/mo Business

$17K MRRStamp, Ahoy.io

Making Over $500,000 By Building the First Face Swapping App

$18K MRRI Think And Do

Learning From the Competition to Grow Revenue to $600/mo

$600 MRRonboardX

Using SEO to Grow My Small Coding Project Into a Business

$6K MRRWhatSong

Growing an Email Service for Business Invoices to $1K/mo

$1K MRRBox Factura

Building a Low-Maintenance App That Makes Hundreds Per Month

$150 MRRRest

The Distribution Channels I Targeted to Generate $2,000/mo

$2K MRRTiming, PocketCAS

How I Built an $80k/mo Business by Listening to My Audience

$80K MRRMinistry of Testing

Making $4k/mo Turning People's Startup Ideas Into Realities

$4K MRRActionPages, ActionWins

Working Nights and Weekends to Grow My Revenue to $2,300/mo

$2.3K MRRDoorbell.io

The Marketing Techniques Involved in Growing to $4,000/mo

$4K MRRupdown.io

Providing Measurable Value to Customers to Bring in $3k/mo

$3K MRRKeplerBot

How I Grew to $21K/mo by Targeting the Right Niche

$21K MRRStoremapper

Bootstrapping to $70k/mo by Solving Your Own Problem

$70K MRRConferenceBadge.com, Heliom, Missive, Leanticket.com, Medali.st

Making $250/mo From a Simple Tool for Reddit Users

$250 MRRLater for Reddit

Growing an Enthusiastic User Base and Generating $1,600/mo

$1.6K MRRSmartEdit, PageFour

Turning My Popular Open-Source Tool Into a $1,200/mo Product

$1.2K MRRSMG Music Display

Growing an Audio and Video Conversion App to $3,000/mo

$3K MRRAudio/Video Converter Android

How I Grew My Appointment Reminder Business to $12k/mo

$12K MRRAppointment Reminder

How I Converted My Free Plugin to a $700/mo WordPress Business

$700 MRRRSVP Pro plugin

Growing a Server Hosting Business to $1,500/mo

$1.5K MRRAmon

Struggles We Faced Building and Marketing a $4.5k/mo Business

$4.5K MRRShogun

Lessons From Building, Iterating on a Profitable Side Project

$500 MRRSqlSmash

Skipping Class to Build a Popular Music Remixing App

$300 MRRThe Wub Machine

Turning My Love for Productivity Into a Profitable Business

$2K MRRComplice

How a Community Helped Me Build and Sell My Project to Yahoo

$400 MRRWebjay

Bouncing Back From the Brink to make $1000 in My First Week

$32K MRRInstapainting

Learning the Ropes and Building My Own SaaS Business

$0 MRRHR Partner

Risking It All to Follow My Dream as a Solo Founder

$2K MRRCommando.io

How I Supported Myself Full Time by Building a WordPress Plugin

$16K MRRFormCraft

Generating $2,000/mo From an Uptime Monitoring Service

$2K MRRApex Software, Apex Ping

Exhausting My Savings to Build a $2M/year App

$167K MRRTrackin, MobyDish

Bringing in $8k/mo With a Project That Solves a Real Problem

$8K MRRTestingBot

The Highs and Lows of Running a Content-Based Business

$420 MRRThe Simple Project, The Success Manual, Bighow News, Basicversity

How I Built and Sold a Sentiment Analysis API That Made $150k/mo

$150K MRRSemantria

Launching a To-Do List App to $2,200 in Monthly Revenue

$2K MRRTaskforce

Growing a Community for Digital Nomads to $33,000/mo

$33K MRRNomad List