Stories Database on Indie Hackers

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

From $0 to $62k MRR in three months

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From freelance tester to 7-figure MRR testing platform

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

Building a money management SaaS without a coding background

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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

Durable distribution channels that led to $50k MRR

"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

"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

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

Growing two productized services to $40k+ MRR

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

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

"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.”

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

Winning SEO by building free AI tools

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

“Work on your business; not in it.”

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.”

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

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

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

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

The yearlong process of selling a business for $3.5M

$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

A 2.5 million revenue startup built with no-code

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

How I Went from Making Websites for Fun to Ramen Profitability

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

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

How I Used Influencers to Market My Offshoot Product

How I Stay in Love with My Side Project

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

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

The Solo Founder Growing a Social Media Empire

How Building Better AI Makes My Marketing Easier

How We Found Profitability In An Ultra-Specific Niche

How I Keep My Side Project Manageable And Profitable

Growing a Subscription Newsletter by Teaching Others to Do the Same

How I Started a Business While Starting a New Family

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How I Gained Traction and Became Profitable After Almost Quitting

How I'm Using Neuroscience to Build a Successful Newsletter

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

How Our Personal Project Has Almost Replaced Our Freelancing Income

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.

Solving a Problem to Help Every Company While Staying Efficient

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

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

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

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

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

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

How I Found Opportunity in Another Product's Deprecation

Finding the Right Audience and Bootstrapping to 5,000 Users

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

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

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

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

How I Scratched My Own Itch and Discovered an Untapped Market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bootstrapping a SaaS to Fill a Key Market Gap

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

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

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

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

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

How I Quit School and Learned to Launch a Successful Product

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10 Years Honing My Product as a Solo Entrepreneur

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

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

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

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

Leaving Gainful Employment for a Passion Project

How I Started a Business With Two Lines of Code

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

Growing My First App to Profitability With No Marketing Experience

Using My Biggest Struggle as the Launchpad for a Successful Business

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

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

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

How We Overcame Failure to Bootstrap a Company Generating Millions

How Shifting Market Demands Inspired Us to Build Our First App

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

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

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

Building an Award-Winning Product With No Previous Business Experience

How a Serial Entrepreneur Turned a Problem into a Profitable Business

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

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

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