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Here's a list of one-person business/side hustle stories for inspiration and learning

As a solo creator myself, I'm always been obsessing over and on the look out for stories of one-person businesses / side hustles and how they made it.

So I went down the rabbit hole and spent the last weekend searching and curating over 80 stories of indie creators / one person business shared how they started and run their business / side hustle.

Here are some of my personal favorites:

  1. How I run a one-man design agency making $25,000 MRR
  2. My side project made $55,878.77 in 6 months
  3. $120k per year running a one-person newsletter business
  4. My Telegram bot for searching cheap flights reached $1500 in monthly revenue
  5. I started a productized service and went from idea to $10k MRR in 3.5 months

I've organised the stories into 8 different business categories (Eg: SaaS, Blog, Newsletter, Niche Site etc)

If you are interested, you can download this database for free over here.

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Growth
on July 10, 2023
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    Nice compilation, thanks for this.

  2. 1

    Thanks for sharing!

  3. 1

    very useful information

  4. 1

    You did a great job, thanks for sharing

  5. 1

    This list you put together is amazing

  6. 1

    Thanks for the compilation, great for inspiration!

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