Case Studies Database

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

Alex Heiden

Getting acquired twice in a span of two years

Călin Balea

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

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Brady Lowe

From hospitality to growth agency making $3M/yr

Alexandro Martinez Garcia

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

Mattias Geniar

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

Chris Oliver

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

Kyle Gawley

Harnessing social listening to hit $11k/mo

Timo Tzschetzsch

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

Louie Bacaj

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

Corey Haines

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

Gil Hildebrand

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

Anuja Dhawan

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

Alex Lashkov

Getting acqui-hired after seven years of building

André Casal

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

Jordan Gal

From failure to $1M ARR in 8 months

Lukas Hermann

From weekend experiment to $20k/mo business

Jonathan Wilke

Hitting $12k/mo with a boilerplate

Anton Osika

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

Adrian Horning

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

Josef Büttgen

From desperation and dwindling runway to $10k MRR

Mas Hossain

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

Yoni Smolyar

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

George Deglin

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

Chris Badgett

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

Benas Leonavicius

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

Tim Stoddart

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

Alex Rainey

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"

Dom Wells

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

Christopher Gimmer

Hitting a $1.6M ARR plateau but refusing VC funding

Madhu Nadig

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

Igor Ostrovsky

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

David Ly Khim

Building a 7-figure marketing agency

Ben Aston

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

Sam Shepler

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

Craig Hewitt

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

Luke Marshall

Acquiring Baremetrics and setting his sights on $10M ARR

Nick

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

James Layfield

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

Yaro Starak

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

Simon Hamp

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

David Bressler

Getting serious about marketing after hitting $500k ARR

Tham (Sylvia) Nguyen 

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

Ivan Kuckir

Making $3M+ per year with a free product

Ania Wysocka

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

Shawn Rubel

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

Wöhle

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

Iuliia Shnai 

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

Kevin Natanzon

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

Ulric Musset

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

Jesse Pujji

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

Wesley Tian

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

Frank Sondors

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

Pranay Agarwal

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

Roy Lee

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.

Dima Shvets

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

Alex Florescu

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

Daniel Nguyen

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.

Denis Alaev

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

Lucie Barratte

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

Ritika Mehta

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

Ramphis Reyes

From employee to freelancer to $451k/yr agency

Amar Ghose

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

Flo Crivello

Pivoting to a 6-figure MRR AI business

Erikas Mališauskas

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

Yasser Elsaid

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

Joel Griffith

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

Rashid Khan

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

Ryan Darani

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

Josh Spector

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

Vasco Monteiro

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

Adam Nathan

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

Ben Issen

Hitting six figures within three months of launching an AI bootcamp

Yu-An Chan

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

Yana Welinder

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

Colin Gray

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

Eran Galperin

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

James Rose

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

Chris Poka

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

Mike Taber

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

Daniel Dunose

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

Jeremy Redman

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

Emma Lawler

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

Thomas Sanlis

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

Aleem Mawani

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

Keith Perhac

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

Lane Wagner

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

Robin Waite

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

Damjan Dano

Self funding a team of 15 people to get a product to market after 4 years

Isaac Marsh

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

Jim Harrison

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

Kieran Ball

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

Sorin Alupoaie

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

Stephen Walker

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

Ryan Kulp

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

Brad Adkins

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

Dylan Redekop

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

Pete Codes

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

Charlie Clark

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

Sorin Alupoaie

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

Martin Klekner

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

Erwin Lengkeek

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

AJ

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

Jason Chin

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

Adrian Horning

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.

Nick Franklin

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.

Daniel Nguyen

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

Julien Nahum

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

Alex Liu

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

Ernst Mulders

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

Alex Turnbull

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

Lukas Hermann

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

Wyatt Feaster

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

Dmytro Krasun

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

Sumit Kumar

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

Berkay Yavuz

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

Mubashar Iqbal

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

Jonathan Wilke

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

Nicolas Jeanne

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

Tamir Bashkin

$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."

Felix Wong

Leveraging Product Hunt for evergreen side-hustle growth

Florin Pop

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

Joe Previte

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."

Sahil Lavingia

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

Rich Watson

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

Andrew Kamphey

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

Farid Shukurov

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

Jozef Gherman

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

Wilson Bright

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

Jim Raptis

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

Modest Midkus

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

Owen Chen

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

Amine Khaoui

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

Rodrigo Rocco

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

Carwan Rasoal

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."

Thibault (Tibo) Louis-Lucas

How Tibo Louis-Lucas went from bankruptcy to an eight-figure exit

Cecilia Razak, Mason Hipp

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

Jozef Gherman

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

Martin Baun

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

Ron Johnson

How Ron Johnson grows his agency with strategic acquisitions

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

Kristin Jacobs

How Kristin Jacobsen sold his online financial services business for six figures

Mark Whitman

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

Andrei Chira

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

Elliot Boucher

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

Vedran Rasic

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.

Ping He

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."

Elliot Boucher

Becoming the market leader with 10x fewer features

Max Sinclair

How Ecomtent reached $100k ARR and got funded

Manuel Astudillo

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

John Doherty

Growing two productized services to $40k+ MRR

Robin Waite

How Robin Waite sold his design agency and built a six-figure coaching business

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."

Viktor Hanacek

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

Luca Restagno

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

Luca Restagno

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

Juanjo Valiño

Hitting $3.4k with 6 months of runway left

William Paul

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

David

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

Oleg Kulyk

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

Justin Welsh

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

Maciej Cupial

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

Jiayuan Zhang

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

Jen Yip

Chasing passion (over profit) to $34k MRR

Rafal Zawadzki

“Buy time and move fast.”

Stas Kulesh, David Kravitz

From internal tool to $50k MRR

Maciej Cupial

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

Karl Weber

From layoff to $5k MRR in one month

Masud Hossain

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

Daniel Pirciu

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

Jay Clouse

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

Sergey Kyune

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

Moritz Hofmann

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

Sveta Bay, Dan Kulkov

Winning SEO by building free AI tools

Elie Steinbock

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

Eric Lam

“Work on your business; not in it.”

Liz Hermann, Lukas Hermann

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

Nicholas Robb

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

Philipp Keller

This side hustler gave away 50% of his belongings

Kevin Indig

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

Micha Mazaheri

"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

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

Elvis Sun

49% MRR growth in 24 hours with one pricing change

 JJ Englert

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

Tom Hunt

$0-3M ARR: My 7 Biggest Mistakes

Tim Bennetto

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

Julien Collet

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

Yossi Segev

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

Marc Andre

Making $2M building and selling blogs

Arjun Jain

Hitting $144k ARR within 5 months

Aurelio Volle

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

Bilal Tahir

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

Gergo Vari

Hitting 9 figures after 20 years of bootstrapping

Chad Sakonchick

A 2.5 million revenue startup built with no-code

Jay Tan

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

Iron Brands, Adriaan van Rossum

How we launched Simple Analytics AI

Kevin McArdle

To get acquired, remove yourself.

Moniet Sawhney

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."

Andrew Pierno

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

Martin Donadieu, Marc Lou

I sold my AI tool for $35,000

Ivan Kuckir

Generating $200K monthly revenue with an online photo editor

Stas Kulesh

How KarmaBot Made $62k In 1 Month

Daniel Peris

"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

Andrew Pierno

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

Marc Louvion

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

Daniel Ch

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

Rushab Jain

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).

Ken

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

Iron Brands

"Product-market fit is a gut feeling."

Vatsal Sanghvi

$12,000 in 4 months with zero marketing spend

Anthony Riera

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

Marc Martine

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

Tony Dinh

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

Donald Ng

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

Marc Lou

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

Mark Gadala

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

Marie Martens, Filip Minev

8 Lessons I learned from Tally

JT

10 years without making a single dollar online

Marc Louvion

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

Dustin Stout

Hitting $20k MRR in 6 months without marketing

Akshay Kothari, Ivan Zhao

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

Tim Bennetto

Building a $74k MRR product as a rookie coder

Jay Tan

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

Marie Martens

$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

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

Steven Goh

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

Tim Schumacher

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

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

Louis Pereira

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

David Bressler

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

Daniel Abebe

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

Phil McParlane

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

Hieu Nguyen

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

Valentin Hinov

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

Rachit Khator

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

Usama Ejaz

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

Ben Issenmann

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

Austin Repp

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

Jovan Babovic

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

Isaac Saul

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

Jake Lazaroff

How I Found Side Project Success Without Using Big Name Apps

Kara Stone

Creating Successful Indie Games With an Art Background

Andrian Valeanu

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

Daniele

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

Colin

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

Dirk Hoekstra

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

Holger

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

Frederic

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

Umar Hansa

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

Raj Dosanjh

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

Andrew Kamphey

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

Jaime Novoa

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

Marc Bromhall

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

Alex

How I Bucked Tradition and Found Success in a Crowded Market

Pete

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

Will Kwan

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

Lincoln, Jan

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

Michael

How I Grew My Retirement Project to Profitability

Belle, Josh

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

Dave Kiss

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

Michael

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

Curtis Boyd

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

Tim Schumacher

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

Ben Keene

How I Built a Thriving Business by Never Planning Ahead

Frank Rousseau

Quitting My VC-Backed Startup to Become an Indie Hacker

Rodolphe

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

Ramy Khuffash

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

Povilas Korop

How Our Personal Project Has Almost Replaced Our Freelancing Income

Veselin Stoilov

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

Pēteris Caune

Why I Don't Focus on Generating a Quick Profit

Dave Sims

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

Aleksey Weyman

From Hobby Product to 3,000 Users/Month

Mark Thompson

From Internal Tool to $85K/month SaaS Product

SumanJung

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

Sarah Hum, Andrew

Quitting Facebook to Bootstrap a SaaS Business

Jay Caetano

Leveraging a Social Movement for My Growing Side Hustle

Keith Brink

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

Paulo

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

Timur Valishev

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

Stanislav Dimitrov

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

Sachin

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

Nicolas Vandenberghe

Bootstrapping from Idea to $2MM ARR in Three Years

Tim

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

Renato Marinho

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

Stefan Johnson

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

Matt Kandler

Reaching Ramen Profitability by Doing One Tiny Thing Well

Rik Schennink

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

Dmitri

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

Lucas Maldonado

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

Alvaro Trigo

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

Igor Benić

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

David

Changing Business Models to Find Sustainable Growth

Josh Ho

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

Owen

From Burnout to $2,300 MRR in 18 Months

Will Hankinson

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

Kyle

How I Stopped Underpricing and Reached a 90% Profit Margin

Kirill Shirinkin, Leonid Suschev

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

Ben Tossell

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

Austin Ginder

Bootstrapping My Daydream into a $20K/Month Business

Nate Ritter

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

Emma Lawler, Philip

How Launching a Membership Model Grew Our Revenue by 300%

Robin

Overcoming Technical Roadblocks to Achieve $1 Million ARR

Apurva Udeshi

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

Puneet

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

Razvan Ciocanel

How I Turned Design Castoffs into a Profitable Community Marketplace

Al

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

Othmane

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

Asad Khan

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

Buster Benson

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

Matej

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

Malte Scholz

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

Dave Ceddia

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

Leo

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

Ketan Anjaria

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

Sahil Lavingia

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

Mitch Colleran

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

Shuhan He

Bootstrapping a Hardware Product to 7 Figures Despite Student Debt

Alessandro DiSanto, Erich Kerekes

Quitting Our Jobs to Follow Our Callings

Hugo Valente

How We Went From Problem to Product by Building for Ourselves

Dani

Pushing Past Imposter Syndrome to Turn My Passion Into a Business

Hari Krishna

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

Preston Lee

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

Justin Hunter

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

Om Suthar

Disrupting the Healthcare Industry while Balancing a 9 to 5

Lee Munroe

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

Peadar Coyle

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

Marvin Russell

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

Ajay Goel

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

Hiram

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

Colin Gray

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

Ramon Suarez

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

Mohammad

How We Started Strong in a Tumultuous Marketplace

Kean

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

Doug Breaker

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

Mike Kulakov

Bootstrapping My Side Project into a $1.4MM SaaS Business

Daniel Scocco

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

Théo

How We Combined Our Skills and Passions to Build a Business

Lior Ohayon

Turning the Worst Part of My Job into a Successful SaaS

Adrian

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

Cam Adair

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

Jake Jorgovan

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

Veiko Raime

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

Dominic Monn

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

Nitai

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

Dom Wells

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

Shawnjit Singh

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

Joshua Voydik

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

Peter

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

Abi Noda

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

Luca Carducci

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

David Cacik

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

Michael Taylor

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

Aljaž, Matic

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

Michael

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

Ryan Angilly

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

Nick Swan

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

Guan

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

Sam Dickie

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

Tom, Jerry

How We've Grown a Profitable Cryptocurrency Education App