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Louis Pereira
AudioPen
Louis Pereira built AudioPen, a voice-to-text app, in a 12-hour hackathon and grew it to $15K-$20K a month solo, all in public on X.
$17,500/mo
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Danny Postma
HeadshotPro
Danny Postma launched HeadshotPro solo and grew the AI headshot tool to a widely reported $300K a month, driven mostly by SEO and affiliates.
$300,000/mo
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Julia Pintar
Flownote
Julia Pintar scaled her AI note-taker Flownote from $2K to $10K MRR in under 30 days, organically, on short-form video.
$10,000/mo
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Daniel Vassallo
Small Bets
Daniel Vassallo left Amazon and built a portfolio of small products to $620K in revenue in 2024 (about $51,667 a month), then sold his Small Bets community to Gumroad for $3.6M, all posted publicly on
$51,667/mo
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Yasser Elsaid
Chatbase
Yasser Elsaid bootstrapped Chatbase past $8M ARR (about $667K a month) with no outside funding, starting solo.
$667,000/mo
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Tony Dinh
TypingMind
Tony Dinh builds in public and reports TypingMind, his advanced front-end for ChatGPT and other models, at roughly $130K a month.
$130,000/mo
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Rexan Wong
Text Behind Image
At 16, Rexan Wong vibe-coded Text Behind Image in a few hours, went viral to 300K users, and turned it into about $1K a month.
$1,000/mo
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Rob Hallam
SuperX
After five failed products, Rob Hallam grew SuperX to $23K MRR in six months, telling the story in public the whole way.
$23,000/mo
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Rashid Khasanov
Angel Match
After a $220K startup failure, Rashid Khasanov built Angel Match to about $37K MRR, anchoring a $42K/mo portfolio.
$37,000/mo
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Justin Welsh
The Saturday Solopreneur
Justin Welsh built a one-person business to over $12.5M in lifetime revenue at 90% margins selling courses and a newsletter, and says he clears $1M+ in profit a year (roughly $92K a month in revenue),
$92,000/mo
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Jack Friks
Post Bridge
After four years of failing online, Jack Friks built Post Bridge to a public $44K a month, all revenue shown live on a dashboard.
$44,136/mo
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Pieter Levels
Photo AI
Pieter Levels (levelsio) built Photo AI, an AI photo generator, largely solo. He publishes live revenue and reports it as one of his biggest earners.
$105,000/mo
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Peter Askew
DudeRanch.com
Peter Askew runs DudeRanch.com, a WordPress directory doing $50,575 trailing-twelve-month revenue (about $4,215 a month) with near-zero costs, as he disclosed on X in August 2025.
$4,215/mo
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Dominik Sobe
HelpKit
Dominik Sobe turned Notion into a help-center product and bootstrapped HelpKit past $10K a month, solo, with sub-2% churn.
$10,000/mo
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David Ondrej
Vectal.ai
David Ondrej built Vectal.ai from zero to $155K ARR and 70,000 users in about a year, then sold it for $1.8 million.
$12,900/mo
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Marc Lou
ShipFast
Marc Lou built ShipFast in seven days and turned it into the anchor of a portfolio that now earns him $45K and up a month, all posted in public.
$45,000/mo
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Sai Krishna
Superblog
Sai Krishna bootstrapped Superblog past $5K MRR solo, on the way to $81K ARR with no ads and no sales calls.
$5,000/mo
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Jon Yongfook
Bannerbear
Jon Yongfook solo-bootstrapped Bannerbear, an image and video generation API, to $1M ARR, about $83K a month, on plain old Rails and jQuery.
$83,000/mo
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Cormac Hayden
Oasis
Cormac Hayden, a self-taught builder using AI coding tools, grew his water-quality app Oasis to about $23K a month in under seven months on the back of viral short-form video.
$23,000/mo
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Ruben Hassid
EasyGen
Six months after launch, Ruben Hassid posted EasyGen at $42,110 MRR, bootstrapped with zero outside investment.
$42,110/mo
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Arvid Kahl
Podscan
Arvid Kahl built Podscan, a podcast monitoring tool, to $10k MRR in three years while documenting every step in public, as he shared on X in November 2025.
$10,000/mo
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Pat Walls
Starter Story
Pat Walls bootstrapped Starter Story past $1M in annual revenue (about $83,333 a month) and calls it a multi-million-dollar profitable business, as he shared on X in early 2026.
$83,333/mo
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Tibo Louis-Lucas
Tweet Hunter + Taplio
Tibo Louis-Lucas grew Tweet Hunter and Taplio to a combined $8M ARR, about $667K a month, before selling both to Lemlist's parent company.
$667,000/mo
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Simon Hoiberg
FeedHive
Simon Hoiberg bootstrapped FeedHive to around $20K a month and kept server costs under $400, proof you do not need a big team or funding.
$20,000/mo
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Samuel Rondot
StoryShort
Ex-optician Samuel Rondot taught himself to code and built StoryShort to about $20K MRR, part of a $28K/mo portfolio.
$20,000/mo
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John Rush
SEObot
John Rush self-reports SEObot, his automated SEO content engine, at around $120K a month, one product in a portfolio he runs under MarsX.
$120,000/mo
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Angus Cheng
Bank Statement Converter
Angus Cheng turned his own money-tracking headache into Bank Statement Converter, a solo, bootstrapped tool doing over $42,000 a month.
$42,175/mo
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Jordan O'Connor
Closet Tools
Jordan O'Connor built Closet Tools, a browser extension that automates Poshmark selling, into a solo SaaS doing about $38K a month, with revenue reaching $756.5K in 2024.
$38,000/mo
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Nico Jeannen
Talknotes
Nico Jeannen taught himself to code, grew Talknotes to $7,000 MRR in 11 months, then sold it for $200,000.
$7,000/mo
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Damon Chen
PDF.ai + Testimonial.to
Damon Chen builds in public and posted crossing $100K a month combined across PDF.ai, his chat-with-documents tool, and Testimonial.to.
$100,000/mo
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Steven Tey
Dub
Steven Tey left Vercel to build Dub, the open-source link and attribution platform, now listed around $1.4M ARR, roughly $117K a month.
$117,000/mo
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