Stories Database on Indie Hackers

Petar Georgiev · Indie Hackers

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

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

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

Emanuele Di Pietro

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

Aurélien Amacker

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

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

Pivoting an internal tool into a 7-figure business

Ruslan Leteyski

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

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

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

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

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

Ramsri Goutham Golla

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

Jonathan Geiger

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

Ivan Nedelkovski

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jason Zigelbaum

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

Hitting $29k MRR by building an audience first

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

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

Maddox Schmidlkofer

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

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

Francesco D'Alessio

Building a 5-figure-MRR software review site

Umberto Mezzadra

From physical product to $10k/mo app

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

From freelancer to 7-figure-ARR productized service

Mykola Polotnianko

Hitting $16k MRR after years of failed products

Diversifying to break a $1.6M/yr plateau

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

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

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

Sean Mallapurkar

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

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

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

Louis-David Paul-Hus

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

Dropping everything to seize a 7-figure-ARR opportunity

Tobias Günther

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

From simple theme to $65k/mo ecosystem

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

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

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

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

Santanu Dasgupta

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

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

Roy van den Broek

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

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

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

Rebecca Shostak

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

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

Taylor Jacobson

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

Yatharth Sejpal

Hitting $500k ARR in four months

Fernando Pessagno

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abhishek Chakravarty

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

Günter Richter

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

Harry Brodsky, Khanan Grauer

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

Pascal Levy-Garboua

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

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

From simple newsletter to $4.5M/yr media company

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

Adithyan Ilangovan

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

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

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

From broke to $100k MRR in four years

Staying close to customers and hitting $16k/mo

Arsen Ibragimov

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

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

Alexander Van Le

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

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

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

Rebuilding after his ARR plummeted by $600k

Piotr Kulpinski

Doubling down on directories to hit $13k/mo

Hitting $23k MRR in six months after five failures

Amos Bar-Joseph

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

Bootstrapping an investment bank to $100M+ deal volume

Viktor Seraleev

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

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

From open-source donations to $13k MRR product

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

Pauline Clavelloux

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

Validating via services before building a $27k MRR product

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

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

Eugene Zolotarenko

Hitting a 7-figure ARR with a strategic partnership

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

Hitting $10M ARR with RPG-style programming courses

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

From $0 to $62k MRR in three months

Torben Anderson

Realizing his business was a $1M ARR trap

Hitting $30k MRR with an AI marketing product

Building a $100M ARR portfolio of products

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

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

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

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

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

Anatolii Dmitrienko

Growing a template portfolio to $30k/mo

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

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

Manuel Astudillo

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

Kazi Mohammed Erfan

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

Building a $51k/mo ecosystem of small apps

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

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

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

Gokul Chandrasekaran

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

Yasha Boroumand

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

Neel Bhattacharya

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

Rashid Khasanov

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

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

Sebastian Röhl

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

Igor Debatur, Felix Gourdeau

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mattia Righetti

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

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

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

Kristel Kruustük

From freelance tester to 7-figure MRR testing platform

Rick van Haasteren

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

Bruce McLachlan

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

Marcel Petitpas

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

Andrian Valeanu

Bootstrapping a portfolio of products to a 7-figure ARR

Getting acquired twice in a span of two years

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

From hospitality to growth agency making $3M/yr

Alexandro Martinez Garcia

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

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

Oliver Friedrichs

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

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

Harnessing social listening to hit $11k/mo

Timo Tzschetzsch

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

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

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

Ilya Novohatskyi

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

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

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

Getting acqui-hired after seven years of building

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

From failure to $1M ARR in 8 months

From weekend experiment to $20k/mo business

Hitting $12k/mo with a boilerplate

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

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

From desperation and dwindling runway to $10k MRR

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

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

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

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

Benas Leonavicius

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

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

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

Dominic Zijlstra

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

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

Christopher Gimmer

Hitting a $1.6M ARR plateau but refusing VC funding

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

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

Building a 7-figure marketing agency

From blogger to $21M/yr media tech powerhouse

Eric Provencher

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

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

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

Acquiring Baremetrics and setting his sights on $10M ARR

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

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

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

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

Getting serious about marketing after hitting $500k ARR

Tham (Sylvia) Nguyen

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

Making $3M+ per year with a free product

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

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

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

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

Daniyal Chughtai

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

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

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

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

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

Sebastian Volkis

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

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

Kushank Aggarwal

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

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

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

Maximilian Fleitmann

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

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

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

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

Nenad Milanović

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

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

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

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

From employee to freelancer to $451k/yr agency

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

Pivoting to a 6-figure MRR AI business

Erikas Mališauskas

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

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

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

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

Tony Beltramelli

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

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

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

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

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

Hitting six figures within three months of launching an AI bootcamp

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

Wesley (wslyvh)

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

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

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

Marissa Goldberg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sharath Kuruganty

Accidentally becoming a founder with two exits under his belt

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

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

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

Grant McConnaughey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michal Kankowski

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

Stephen Flanders

Creators are using faceless videos to gain millions of followers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ilias Ism, Lewis Carhart

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

Growing ChartMogul to ~$10M ARR via strategic partnerships

Thibault (Tibo) Louis-Lucas

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

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

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

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."

Gemma Vincent, Jozef Maxted

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

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

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

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

Stefan Savevski

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

Sebastian Röhl

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

Emmanuel Straschnov

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

Danielle Johnson, James Ivings

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

Dima Rubanov, Matthias Neumayer

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

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

Ben Waterman, Michael Magdongon

Building a money management SaaS without a coding background

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

Sander Visser, Andy Nelson

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

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

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

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

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

Josef Buettgen, Timo Nikolai

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

Ryan Doyle, Jakob Greenfeld

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

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

$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."

Leveraging Product Hunt for evergreen side-hustle growth

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

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

Snow Lee, Liam Hwang

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

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

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

Takuya Matsuyama

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

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

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

Pauline Clavelloux

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

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

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

Wilson Wilson, Olly Meakings

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

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

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

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

Donato Callahan, Drew McCluskey

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

Nithursan Mehendran

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

Rashid Khasanov, Marat Tynarbekov

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

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

Rich Watson, Meow

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

Joseph Lee, Koushik Marka

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

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

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

Neel Bhattacharya

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

Cecilia Razak, Mason Hipp

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

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

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

Dmitry Dragilev

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

Ajay Patel, Vrushank Brahmakshatriya

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

Priyanka Prasad

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

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

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

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

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

Rahul Pandey, Alex Chiou.

Durable distribution channels that led to $50k MRR

Diego Kiedanski

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

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

Apostolos Dedeloudis

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

Becoming the market leader with 10x fewer features

Manuel Astudillo

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

Growing two productized services to $40k+ MRR

William Paul, Igor Kiss

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

Harsha Abegunasekara

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

Justin Jagiello, Javier Velazquez, Shawn Greenway

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

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

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

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

Hitting $3.4k with 6 months of runway left

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chasing passion (over profit) to $34k MRR

“Buy time and move fast.”

Stas Kulesh, David Kravitz

From internal tool to $50k MRR

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

From layoff to $5k MRR in one month

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

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

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

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

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

Sveta Bay, Dan Kulkov

Winning SEO by building free AI tools

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

“Work on your business; not in it.”

Liz Hermann, Lukas Hermann

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

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

This side hustler gave away 50% of his belongings

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

"Selling my business was a mistake.”

Caspar Von Wrede

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

Vika Loskutova, Obie Fernandez

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

Sébastien Night

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

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

49% MRR growth in 24 hours with one pricing change

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

$0-3M ARR: My 7 Biggest Mistakes

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

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

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

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

Spencer Patterson

The yearlong process of selling a business for $3.5M

Sebastian Röhl

$50,000 revenue in one year

Making $2M building and selling blogs

Hitting $144k ARR within 5 months

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

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

Hitting 9 figures after 20 years of bootstrapping

Chad Sakonchick

A 2.5 million revenue startup built with no-code

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

Iron Brands, Adriaan van Rossum

How we launched Simple Analytics AI

To get acquired, remove yourself.

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

Alexander Isora

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

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

Martin Donadieu, Marc Lou

I sold my AI tool for $35,000

Generating $200K monthly revenue with an online photo editor

How KarmaBot Made $62k In 1 Month

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

Caspar Von Wrede

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

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

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

Distribution is more important than product

Rushab Jain, Vatsal Sanghvi

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

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

Arjun Raj Jain, Adam Elkassas

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

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

Sébastien Night

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

Lukas Hermann, Liz Hermann

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

"Product-market fit is a gut feeling."

$12,000 in 4 months with zero marketing spend

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marie Martens, Filip Minev

8 Lessons I learned from Tally

10 years without making a single dollar online

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

Hitting $20k MRR in 6 months without marketing

Akshay Kothari, Ivan Zhao

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

Building a $74k MRR product as a rookie coder

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

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

Valentin Pichard

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

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

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

Stephen Campbell

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

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

Marko Saric, Uku Täht

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

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

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

Muhammad Taimoor

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

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

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

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

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

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

Geert Jan Sloos, Bram

How I Went from Making Websites for Fun to Ramen Profitability

Wes Burke, Jonathan Williamson

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

Charlotte Grunsven

How My Least Marketed Game Became My Most Viral Success

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jonathan Williamson, Wes Burke

How I Used Influencers to Market My Offshoot Product

Delphine, AKA Dziff

How I Stay in Love with My Side Project

Phil Strazzulla

How I Grew My Business to Six Figures With SEO

How I Found Side Project Success Without Using Big Name Apps

Creating Successful Indie Games With an Art Background

Andrian Valeanu

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

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

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

Building a Hobby Project That Pays for Itself

Zach Williamson

The Solo Founder Growing a Social Media Empire

Przemek Chojecki

How Building Better AI Makes My Marketing Easier

Yonatan, Assaf, Adar

How We Found Profitability In An Ultra-Specific Niche

How I Keep My Side Project Manageable And Profitable

Casey Botticello

Growing a Subscription Newsletter by Teaching Others to Do the Same

Ester Liquori, Mauro Bennici

How I Started a Business While Starting a New Family

Yahia Bakour, Ruud Visser, Morgan Howell

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

Riley Tomasek, Sari, Sinan

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

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

How I Run a Revenue-generating Newsletter Without Burning Out

Matt, Lee Goldberg

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

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

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

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

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

How I Bucked Tradition and Found Success in a Crowded Market

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

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

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

How I Grew My Retirement Project to Profitability

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

Ollie Rozdarz, Isuru

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

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

Danielle, James

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

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

Neal Taparia, Darshan "Darsh" Somashekar

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

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

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

How I Built a Thriving Business by Never Planning Ahead

Quitting My VC-Backed Startup to Become an Indie Hacker

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

Stephen, Jacob Simon

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

How I Gained Traction and Became Profitable After Almost Quitting

Anne-Laure Le Cunff

How I'm Using Neuroscience to Build a Successful Newsletter

Pierre de Wulf, Kevin Sahin

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

How Our Personal Project Has Almost Replaced Our Freelancing Income

Veselin Stoilov

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

Why I Don't Focus on Generating a Quick Profit

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

Tomas Gorny, Tracy Conrad

Solving a Problem to Help Every Company While Staying Efficient

Thomas Ketchell, Yoran Brondsema, Jonathan Ketchell

Growing a Sustainable Business Despite a Tough User Market

From Hobby Product to 3,000 Users/Month

From Internal Tool to $85K/month SaaS Product

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

Sarah Hum, Andrew

Quitting Facebook to Bootstrap a SaaS Business

Leveraging a Social Movement for My Growing Side Hustle

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

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

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

Stanislav Dimitrov

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

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

Nicolas Vandenberghe

Bootstrapping from Idea to $2MM ARR in Three Years

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

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

Stas Kulesh, David Kravitz

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

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

Reaching Ramen Profitability by Doing One Tiny Thing Well

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

François-Guillaume Ribreau

How I Found Opportunity in Another Product's Deprecation

Rick van Haasteren

Finding the Right Audience and Bootstrapping to 5,000 Users

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

Lucas Maldonado

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

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

Martijn Wijtmans, Mark van den Brink

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

Alexander Lashkov, Vitaly

How I Scratched My Own Itch and Discovered an Untapped Market

Aurelien Amacker

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

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

Shannon McLaughlin

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

Ben Arellano, Nate

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

Changing Business Models to Find Sustainable Growth

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

From Burnout to $2,300 MRR in 18 Months

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

How I Stopped Underpricing and Reached a 90% Profit Margin

Kirill Shirinkin, Leonid Suschev

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

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

Bootstrapping My Daydream into a $20K/Month Business

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

Emma Lawler, Philip

How Launching a Membership Model Grew Our Revenue by 300%

Overcoming Technical Roadblocks to Achieve $1 Million ARR

Hustling Hard to Build a $20K/Year Product

Daniel Hauschildt, Eray Basar

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

Collin, Nick, Ryan

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

Dmitry Dragilev

Bootstrapping a SaaS to Fill a Key Market Gap

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

Razvan Ciocanel

How I Turned Design Castoffs into a Profitable Community Marketplace

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

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

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

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

Adrian Spiac, Cristian, Madalin

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

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

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

Confronting My Fears in the Hope of Retiring Early

Adam Johnston, Drew Turner

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

Bohumil Pokštefl, Ivan Hanák

Growing a Spin-Off Business to a Standalone Success

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

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

Luca Micheli, Matteo, Daniele

How I Quit School and Learned to Launch a Successful Product

Evan, Duane, Lindsey

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

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

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

Bootstrapping a Hardware Product to 7 Figures Despite Student Debt

Alessandro DiSanto, Erich Kerekes

Quitting Our Jobs to Follow Our Callings

How We Went From Problem to Product by Building for Ourselves

Pushing Past Imposter Syndrome to Turn My Passion Into a Business

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

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

Alexandra Persea, Serge

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

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

Disrupting the Healthcare Industry while Balancing a 9 to 5

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

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

Baptiste Debever

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

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

Fabrizio Rinaldi, Francesco Di Lorenzo

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

Michael Caslowitz, Robert

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

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

J.C. Hiatt, Thad

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

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

Andrew Fedoniouk

10 Years Honing My Product as a Solo Entrepreneur

Brandon Crossley

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

Jacob Eiting, Miguel

My Journey from Unemployed to Entrepreneur and Y Combinator Alum

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

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

Diony McPherson, Dean McPherson

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

How We Started Strong in a Tumultuous Marketplace

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

Sierra Sterling, Michael

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

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

Bootstrapping My Side Project into a $1.4MM SaaS Business

Building a Business out of My Own Self-Improvement Project

Matous Kucera, Jan Donatek

Leaving Gainful Employment for a Passion Project

Adriaan van Rossum

How I Started a Business With Two Lines of Code

Nelson Shaw, Carl Thompson

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

How We Combined Our Skills and Passions to Build a Business

Turning the Worst Part of My Job into a Successful SaaS

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

Ivan Mir, Irina

Growing My First App to Profitability With No Marketing Experience

Taylor Jacobson

Using My Biggest Struggle as the Launchpad for a Successful Business

Davis Baer, Vishal Kumar

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

Andrew Ettinger, Ben Tossell, Csaba Kissi

Growing My Side Hustle to Hundreds in Monthly Revenue Without Code

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

Eating Our Own Dogfood to Grow a Productized Service to Profitability

Danielle Simpson, Arvid Kahl

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

How We Overcame Failure to Bootstrap a Company Generating Millions

Maverick Eguia, Hassan Ahmed

How Shifting Market Demands Inspired Us to Build Our First App

Nick Eubanks, Matt Barby, Ian Howells

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

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

Mattias Geniar, Freek Van der Herten

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

Ujwal Surampalli

Building an Award-Winning Product With No Previous Business Experience

How a Serial Entrepreneur Turned a Problem into a Profitable Business

Baptiste, François Forest

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

Brock Luker, Chris Murphy

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

Will Hench, Andrew Hench, Dan Cedrone

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

Paul Jarvis, Zack Gilbert

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

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

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

Andres Aguerrevere

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

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

Valentin Staykov, Haneef Ghanim, Aloke Pillai

Turning a Discouraging Launch into a Profitable Growth Story

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

Scottie Schneider, Chris Davis, Chris Goss

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

Osman Koc, Muhammet Enginar

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

From Idea to Profitable Business on the GitHub Marketplace and Slack

Terry Godier, George Kepnick

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

Alex Kistenev, Artem Borodin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zuhayeer Musa, Zaheer Mohiuddin

Building Levels.fyi in Coffee Shops and Growing to Profitability

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

Kaustubh Pratap Chand

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

Clément Mihailescu, Antoine Pourchet

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

Tevya Washburn, Anas bin Mukim

Building and Growing a WordPress Plugin for Managing Online Reputation

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

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

Philippe Genois, Jean-Philippe

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

Jennifer Bailey

Navigating the Challenges of Growing a Virtual Phone System

Bregt, Alejandra

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

How We've Grown a Profitable Cryptocurrency Education App

How My Newsletter for Developers Generates Subscription Revenue

Building and Growing a Marketing Automation Tool for WordPress

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

Nibaru, Collibhoy (Colin), Jrod (Jared)

Moving Quickly into the Crypto Market and Seeing Explosive Growth

Avoiding Feature Creep and Growing a Profitable Coding Newsletter

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

Auston Bunsen, PK Banks, Mario Aguayo

Getting Ahead of the Cryptocurrency Wave and Generating Early Revenue

Francesco Pretelli

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

William Candillon

How Transparency and Good Timing Helped Me Capitalize on New Tech

Alan Grow, John "Pliny" Eremic

Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry With Rigorous Experimentation

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

Mike Taber, Rob Walling

Starting and Growing a Conference for Internet Entrepreneurs

Joel Hooks, John Lindquist

How We Turned Coding Screencasts into a Million-Dollar Business

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

Robin Vander Heyden

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

Growing a Profitable Podcast on Software Engineering

Bastien Siebman

Turning My Expertise with Asana into a Profitable Side Business

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

Katie Keith, Andy Keith

Transitioning from Design Shop to Subscription-Based Plugin Business

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

Ryan Kulp, Justin

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

Nicolas Tranchant

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

How Starting Small Helped Me Build a Server Backup Company

Jeff Ponchick, Joey Mason

Making Millions in Revenue by Helping Indie Artists Get Paid

Gregg Blanchard

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

Stefan Des, Alex

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

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

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

Building, Growing, and Selling an Education Technology Business

Tim Osterbuhr, Friederike (Rika) Osterbuhr

Building and Launching a Search Engine for Geek Merchandise

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

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

Kosta Panagoulias

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

Pippin Williamson

How to Build a Million-Dollar WordPress Plugin Business

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

How to Make Recurring Revenue Managing WordPress Sites

Romaric Philogène, Pierre Mavro, Rémi Demol, Aurélien Bocquet

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

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

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

Rails and Revenue: How to Build a Screencast Business

Hugo Meana, Lidia Meana, Alberto Pena

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

How a Rails Programming Book Generated Thousands in Revenue

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

How I Leveraged Partnerships to Build My Online Course Audience

Building a Service That Motivates Others to Write Every Day

Casey Rosengren, Alexey

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

Edmund Mai, Aaron Vasquez

Finding a Niche and Launching a Gay Video Chat Platform

Marc Montagne, Mathieu Nayrolles, Vincent Satiat

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

Nelson Joyce, Andy

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

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

Andrei Potorac, Cristi Necula, Andrei Neamtu

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

Generating $70,000 Per Month Through Organic Growth Methods

How to Create and Market a Resume-Building Service

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

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

Channeling Our Love of Social Media Into a Profitable Business

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

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

Trevor Fountain

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

Jack Clancy, Benji Cohen

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

Aleš Krivec, Aleš Žagar

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

Using Excel Experience to Build a Profitable Online Community

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

How I Regained Momentum After a Post-Launch Traffic Slowdown

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

Matt Sencenbaugh

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

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

Emmanuel, Josh Haas

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

Dave Rogenmoser

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

Seth Louey, Mubashar Iqbal, Ben Tossell

Building a Community by Capitalizing on a Growing Trend

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

The Productivity App That Helped to Build and Grow Itself

Jérémy Mouzin

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

Arif Tukiman, Fikri, Amir

Selling to Developers by Building for Ourselves First

Failing to Find a Developer, and Building the Product Myself

Deepak Chhugani

Making $2,000/mo Disrupting Investment Bank Recruiting

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

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

Jesse Neugarten

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

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

Wyatt Jozwowski, David

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

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

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

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

Growing a Consulting Business into a Virtual Assistant Company

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

Michael Hebenstreit

Leaving My Equity Trading Career to Build a WordPress Business

Nicholas Romano, Kyle Hetherington

Launching a Profitable Startup Without Technical Founders

Gunhee Park, Ola Olusoga

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

Oliver Bremer, Frank, Wolfgang

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

Building and Growing a Tool That Motivates Writers to Write

Santiago, Martin

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

David, John Bartholomew

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

A Crash Course on What It Takes to Produce Online Courses

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

Brennan Dunn's Quest to Sell SaaS Without an Audience

My Journey Going From Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur

Rik Ganguly, Ari Iaccarino, Alex Nikitin

Building and Growing an Innovative Carpool Business

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

Primož Cigler, Jaka Šmid

How Becoming Too Popular Endangered My WordPress Business

A Newsletter for Driving Traffic Became My Top Revenue Source

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

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

Building a 7-Figure Business by Becoming a Definitive Resource

Using My Coding Blog to Validate and Attract Paying Customers

Stefan Klumpp, Jordi Giménez, Aleix Ventayol

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

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

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

Jordan Gonen, Daniel Singer, Jeremy Maluf

Designing and Shipping the Cards Against Humanity for Startups

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

Identifying Consumer Demand Before Building My Travel Service

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

Jack Slingerland

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

Roman Kalyakin, Vlad Protasov

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

Clarifying Our Messaging and Launching a Novel Business Idea

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

Building and Launching an Invoice Payment System

Steve Benjamins

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

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

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

Scott Keyes, Brian Kidwell

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

Ansel Ponce Diama

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

Andrew Carpenter, Joey French, Rachel Carpenter

Growing by Staying Scrappy, Affordable, and Approachable

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

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

How a Problem at Work Led to a Profitable Product Idea

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

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

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

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

Constantine Rozenshtraus

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

Combining Passive Income Dreams to Create a Viable Business

Jon Brody, Michael Taylor

How My Professional Poker Skills Helped Me Grow My Agency

Dave, Mark, Gurpal

Generating $50k/mo Helping Users Build Outreach Campaigns

Ed Vinicombe, Kaspar

Turning My Old Skill Into a Profitable Side Project

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

Craig Pearce, Brandon Parsons

The Childcare Industry Lacked an Online Presence. I Capitalized.

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

Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, Sam Saffron

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

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

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

How Narrowing My Focus Helped Me Profitably Solve a Problem

Trevor McKendrick

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

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

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

Turning My Web Design Knowledge Into a Profitable Book

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

Sagi Gidali, Amit Bareket

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

Christopher Gimmer

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

Using Automation to Generate $300/mo in Passive Income

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

Making $2.4k/mo Helping Customers Sell on Amazon

Robert Williams

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

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

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

Ryan Mickle, Ian Hunter

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

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

How Learning to Finish What I Started Helped My Business

Growing My Business by Being Patient Where Others Might Rush

Building a Profitable Tool for Memorizing Human Anatomy

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

Nicolas Lœuillet

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

Surbhi, Rahul Verma, Varun Verma

Growing to Over 30 Million Downloads by Marketing Globally

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

Varun Aggarwal, Rahul Aggarwal

Bootstrapping a Marketplace to $1.3M by Talking to Customers

Andy Qin, Canzhi

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

John O'Nolan, Hannah Wolfe

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

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

August Flanagan, Shane Harter

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

Adam Goldstein, Brett Adcock

Growing My Business by Bringing New Tech to Recruiting

How I Built a Business Helping People Evaluate Their Ideas

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

Sebastian Dobrincu

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

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

Kickstarting Growth by Fighting for Every Early User

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

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

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

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

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

Matthieu Varagnat

Exploring the Benefits of Simplicity and Making Hundreds

Growing to $6000/mo Through Outsourcing and Automation

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

Improving My Business by Moving to Where My Customers Live

David Hauser, Siamak Taghaddos

How We Bootrapped Grasshopper to $30M in Annual Revenue

Lessons Learned From 8 Months of Cold Calling and Feedback

Zach Shefska, Greg Warner

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

Overcoming the Challenges and Succeeding on the App Store

Finding Validation and Limiting Focus to the Top Income Channels

Alex Paduraru, Cristina Conacel

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

Breaking into Product Management and Building a Community Resource

Maxim, Victor, Or Poran

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

The Valuable Lessons I've Learned About Launching Quickly

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

How Focusing on Email Marketing Helped Grow My Business

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

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

Harry Chen, Xiao

Keeping Things Lean and Growing My Online Course Business

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

Jan Schulz-Hofen

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

Dawson Whitfield

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

Growing Through Automation, Social Media, and Experience

Making $3,500/mo Writing Tech Thriller Novels

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

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

Jason Slater, Linas Vildziunas

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

Building a Profitable Marketplace for Personalized Jewelry

Louis Nyffenegger

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

Building, Maintaining, Growing an Anonymous SMS Business

Michael Herrmann

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

How Charging Money for Pro Features Allowed Me Quit My Job

Michael Ramirez

Turning My Personal Tools Into Profitable SaaS Products

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

Erik Rothoff, Johan, Mattias

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

Elliott Garms, h, David

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

Serving an Overlooked Niche to Grow a Profitable Tech Job Board

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

Pushkar Gaikwad

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

Dave Nevogt, Jared Brown

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

Miguel Fuentes Buchholtz

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

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

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

The Challenges Behind Building, Launching, Marketing My Product

Michael Ramirez

Keeping My Side Project Alive and Profitable for 13 Years

My Lightning Campaign to Sell Hundreds of Presidential T-shirts

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

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

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

Dale Vink, Nathan Carter

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

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

My Approach to Creating, Marketing, Launching Courses

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

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

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

Bartosz Hernas, Mike Hernas, Chris

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

Jonathan Plackett

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

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

Using SEO to Grow My Small Coding Project Into a Business

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

Building a Low-Maintenance App That Makes Hundreds Per Month

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

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

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

Phil Manavopoulos

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

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

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

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

Philippe Lehoux

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

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

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

Martijn Brekelmans

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lessons From Building, Iterating on a Profitable Side Project

Skipping Class to Build a Popular Music Remixing App

Turning My Love for Productivity Into a Profitable Business

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

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

Devan Sabaratnam

Learning the Ropes and Building My Own SaaS Business

Risking It All to Follow My Dream as a Solo Founder

Nishant Agrawal

How I Supported Myself Full Time by Building a WordPress Plugin

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

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

Courtland Allen

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

The Highs and Lows of Running a Content-Based Business

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

Courtland Allen

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

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