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Micro SaaS Report for H1 2023

Most of you know me running Micro SaaS HQ. As a part of building our ecosystem, we also cover a lot of stories around products that bring revenue so that it makes it much easier for founders to see what's working in the market and stay close to the trends.

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Here is the full report for H1 2023

June

  • Our Micro SaaS HQ Pro member, Subro launched microsaasdb a database of profitable saas products that has reached 3k monthly unique visitors. Microsaasdb has been built using the no-code tool Flezr
  • Notification, a WordPress notification plugin by Jakub Mikita reaches $3.7K in monthly revenue.
  • penparrot.com, a ChatGPT-based writing tool, reached $1300 ARR organically in 5 days.
  • Jonathan hits $1K MRR with GetMyMFA, a tool for SMS Multi-Factor Authentication testing.
  • Docswrite by Sandeep crossed $600 MRR without spending money on marketing.
  • Luke Jones reaches $970 in monthly revenue with SponsorLeads - connecting newsletters with sponsors.
  • ChatDox by Rana and Zain reaches $1.5K in monthly revenue.
  • Leon Wei got first paid customer on a $349 annual plan for skills.ai
  • Pirsch Analytics, a privacy-friendly web analytics tool by Marvin and Daniel, hits $3.3K in monthly revenue.
  • Neil Morgan, our Micro SaaS HQ Pro member, launched TextQA, an AI tool to query your content everywhere: chatbot, email, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger, & more
  • Our Micro SaaS HQ Pro member, Justas Oras, launched GeniCV - an AI-Powered CV, Professional Profile and Cover Letter Generator.
  • Musat Alin, also our Micro SaaS HQ Pro member, launched Dialoga - a chat bot builder and CRM for small businesses
  • EmailEngine by Andris Reinman reaches $4.7K in monthly revenue. See the founder’s earlier interview where he shared how he got first 40 paying users from his Open Source work
  • Viralcuts, a productized video creation service by Hunter Hammonds hits $800K ARR in just 2 weeks.
  • VisualizeAI, a Micro-SaaS for interior design, reaches $500 MRR.
  • Mustafa Ercan reaches $10K in monthly revenue with radaar.io, a social media management and collaboration platform.
  • Omar hits 15K MRR with collabify.design, a productized service for UI/UX design.
  • Sébastien Dubois sold over 500 copies of the Obsidian Starter Kit, reaching $700 in monthly revenue
  • HyperSuggest, a keyword research tool by Sebastian reaches $2K in monthly revenue
  • Sai Krishna reached $5K MRR for superblog. See his earlier interview on FounderBeats.
  • Designfly.io by Brad grows to $2.9K in monthly revenue.
  • Databerry.ai by Georges Petrov hits $50K ARR, 100 paying customers and ~1.8K GitHub Stars.
  • Web3Forms, Contact Form API for Static Websites by Surjith reached $5000+ ARR . Surjith’s earlier interview on FounderBeats is here.
  • Mustafa Ergisi gets 300th customer for ai2sql.io
  • Hieu Nguyen reached over $7K for GasbyAI in the past 30 days.
  • Noah Bragg sells Potion for $300K after building it solo for two years. See his earlier interview on FounderBeats.
  • journalist.cafe, a tool for SEO-optimised article generation by Afonso Matos, reaches $3K MRR.
  • Seodity’s founder shares how they made over $270,000 in one month after launching on AppSumo
  • Hugo Posnic hits $1 035 MRR and 210 new users in May for urlr.me - a GDPR-compliant link shortening tool.
  • Klaas reaches $2,394 MRR with webtastic.ai for lead generation.
  • Danish makes $2K in revenue from tablebackend.com - a backend for simple projects
  • Tailscan.com, the developer tool for Tailwind CSS by Erwin crosses $800 MRR with 250+ subscribers.
  • hirevire.com, a video interview tool by Sanat and Nikhil, crosses $900 in monthly revenue.
  • Ilan Cohen shares his journey on FounderBeats on reaching $1K MRR in just one month from a Micro SaaS providing real estate data.
  • ScreenshotOne, A screenshot API by Dmytro Krasun has reached monthly revenue of $2.5K. See the founder’s earlier interview on FounderBeats
  • Joshua Tiernan founder of NoCodeFounders, achieves $300K ARR following a decade of zero income in his bootstrapped journey.
  • Treblle.com , an API management tool reached $10K/month revenue.
  • Louis shares how he accidentally created AudioPen, a generative AI tool that's made $73,000 in 2 months.
  • DataReportive.com, a reporting service powered from your databases, hits $4.3K monthly revenue.
  • Peedu Tuisk reaches ****11K users after one year of launch of hardy.app - a weight lifting and gym workout routine app.
  • Kirill and Artyom hit $11K/month revenue from Skinive.com - an app to identify the risks of skin diseases using smartphone camera
  • scrapingfish.com, a webscraping API hits $5K monthly revenue.

May

  • lessannoyingcrm.com, a CRM for small businesses founded by Tyler King hits $300K+ monthly revenue.
  • Sandeep Acharya reaches $546 MRR from docswrite.com, a tool to automate publishing from Google Docs to WordPress.
  • helpstay.com, a contact platform between hosts and helpers for travel accommodation, reaches $5.3K per month in revenue
  • Maciej Cupial crosses $7K MRR with calendesk.com , an appointments scheduling platform for for business
  • screely.com, a tool to instantly generate design mockups from screenshots has been acquired by designstripe
  • dante-ai.com , custom GPT-powered chatbot builder, hits $7K MRR in less than a month of launch.
  • mrscraper.com, a visual web scrapper by Kai, crosses $300MRR
  • Tally.so hits $60K MRR. See earlier interview of co-founder Marie Martens on FounderBeats
  • Our Micro SaaS HQ Pro member launched Solvemigo - provides access to ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Whisper across devices and platforms through a Telegram bot.
  • Baptiste Arnaud reaches $4,780 MRR from Typebot. See earlier interview of the founder on FounderBeats
  • SignHouse, an eSignature tool, reached $500 in sales in 1 week
  • Fastdok with $4859 in sales was sold on Acquired.com. See founder Ayoub’s earlier interview on FounderBeats
  • Daniel Kempe crosses $61K MRR with Quuu - a suite of content marketing tools and services
  • InsertChatGPT, a tool to create white-label ChatGPT chatbots trained on your data, hits $30K MRR
  • GPTMyDay , an AI tool to plan your day, reached 300 users with a month of launch
  • Founders of My AskAI share insights on reaching $14K/MRR and 300 customers
  • Our Micro SaaS HQ Pro member Mariam grew AI Brews - a newsletter covering AI updates - to 1170+ subscribers in less than 3 months.
  • WideBundle a Shopify app, reaches $40K MRR. See this earlier interview of founder, Mat De Sousa, on FounderBeats
  • Chatbase built by Yasser reached $59,000 in MRR after launching on Twitter to his 16 followers 3.5 months ago
  • Ch Daniel shares how he’s making $200k per year from multiple products
  • Gwendal Brossard made $2,300 in sales within the first week of PaletteBrain - a macOS application that allows users to use ChatGPT across all their applications using a shortcut.
  • Unriddle, an app to query documents using GPT-4, generated $1.9k revenue in just over a week
  • meetergo reached $25k MRR in 1.5 years as a bootstrapped business
  • Ben Gorman on growing sif'd to $1K ARR in 6 weeks after launch.
  • AgentRunner.ai by Nicolas Trésegnie, an app for creating GPT-4 powered autonomous agaents, reaches 60+ sign-ups per day
  • Our Micro SaaS HQ Pro member Marving launched Dataaxy, a job board and reverse job board specialized in Data and AI Talents.
  • webtoapp.design, a tool to turn websites into Android and iOS hits $4K MRR.
  • Snappify by Dominik Sumer hits $1,402 MRR and 9,681 registered users. See his earlier interview on FounderBeats.
  • Bahauddin, founder of promotee.co, a micro-saas for Reddit marketing reaches almost $600MRR and 300 signups in 3 months.
  • Andrei shares how Edme, an online classroom for language teachers, became from an almost-dead project to a profitable one, generating $200 MRR in a single day.
  • Pageport, a tool to create personalized video-based landing pages for one person, reaches $1500 MRR.
  • Yaro bootstrapped InboxDone, an agency for email management as a service for entrepreneurs And professionals, to a 7-figure business.
  • Scrollsequence, a wordpress plugin that turns any video into immersive web experience hits $10000 in sales.

April

  • HeyGen, an AI video generation platform, reaches $1M ARR in just 7 months. Founder Joshua shares his story here
  • Zoltan gets 800+ users in 3 Months from Upsum.io built using No-Code tech stack. See his interview on FounderBeats.
  • helperAI, a tool to access ChatGPT on any Site that comes with source code and license to resell, generates $300+ in 5 Days.
  • Our Micro SaaS HQ Pro member Subro launches text2sheets, a chatGPT backed tool to create structured data from any text.
  • Adam Berecz hits $100K+ annual revenue from Vueform, a closed-source form builder tool designed for developers.
  • Senja, a testimonial tool by Wilson Wilson and Oliver Meakings, hits 200 paying customers. See this earlier interview on FounderBeats
  • Bhanu Teja crossed $9.8K MRR with SiteGPT, a tool to create AI chatbots without coding.
  • Formsly, a form and survey builder tool, hits reached 1000 signups in only 6 days after launch.
  • Andreas Reinhold reaches $2K MRR from Auto-Swiper.
  • ImagineMe, a bootstrapped generative AI tool reaches $2K monthly revenue.
  • Remote Rocketship, a job board for remote jobs by Lior Neu-ner hits $1,000 MRR.
  • Our Micro SaaS HQ pro-member Anton launched ChatYourDomain, an AI-powered chat interface that simplifies the process from idea to available domain.
  • Tom crossed $100 MRR from his iOS app Aiva: AI Virtual Assistant.
  • Nick crossed $9K MRR, without any ad spend, with Movevirtual, a platform for hiring off-shore growth assistants.
  • JobBoardSearch by Rodrigo Rocco reaches $16,308.10 or $1,359/mo. Here’s the founder’s earlier interview on FounderBeats.
  • Bruno Hills shares how he grew Featurebase to $2,500 MRR.
  • AI tool BBLY hits $3K MRR within the first month of launching.
  • WebMagic AI by Ryan Morrison hits €693 MRR and crossed 91 paying customers.
  • Hailey Ellis-Kelley had a $30k exit from Podcast Production School, a digital course + membership community.
  • Dan got 35 students and $53,000 in sales for a Build a GPT-4 chatbot course.
  • Inspect Flow, a developer tool for Tailwind CSS by Guillermo, reaches 275 total customers.
  • Ihor Stefurak shares how he created a chrome extension with the help of ChatGPT, received $1K worth of pre-orders within 24h and sold it after 3 weeks on Acquire.
  • Our Micro SaaS HQ Pro member Shree Munukuntla launched AISlash, a browser extension that brings GPT-based AI to any input type fields on any web page.
  • The founders of Supademo hit $1K MRR in 6 Months with 60 paying customers. See the interview on FounderBeats.
  • Pod Genie, a tool for creating bespoke podcasts by Michael, gets 4 paying customers just within a week of launching.
  • Lazztech Hub, a geolocation-based social app, by Gian Lazzarini crossed 1K user base
  • Anthony Castrio sold 20% of his Bot Eat Brain newsletter business for $10,000
  • Bakchich hits $35K revenue with 10K users in 6 month. It’s a crowdfunding platform for African content creators.
  • Klaas reached $1,000 MRR within 2 weeks from Webtastic AI, a lead discovery tool.
  • Our pro member, Artem Smirnov reached $100 MRR with Twool in only 2.5 months after his first commit. Interestingly, he got his 5 customers even before building the landing page by using only Twool.
  • Andrew Kamphey made $200,000 revenue in 3 years from BetterSheets. See his earlier interview on FounderBeats.
  • A recent tax code change in US might impact anyone having a US business.
  • Atua, a Mac app for access to ChatGPT by Yudax, hit $1000 in less than 24 hours.
  • Docswrite.com, a tool by Sandeep Acharya to move content from Google Docs to WordPress instantly, is currently at $387 MRR and made around $1.5k in March 2023.
  • Sebastian, shares his journey of one year full time indie hacking and reaching $450 MRR from two apps, HabitKit and Liftbear
  • Sébastien Lorber, founder of the the newsletter This week in React reached reached 19K+ subscribers and 5100€ turnover in March 2023
  • Noah Shreve reached $5000+ MRR in 2 months by launching adesign and Webflow development subscription service, shreve.one
  • LogoAI by Ping hits a new revenue milestone of $50k/month.
  • David Pokorny reaches $3.5K MRR by providing UI/UX and design services to early-stage SaaS businesses.

March

Feb.

  • Aayshu Nandini hits $4K in just one month with promotee - A Reddit Marketing tool that automates your process of generating, engaging and connecting with leads.
  • Sébastien Night is the founder of Nuro - an AI-driven video editor that fully automates the video editing process. He has grown Nuro to €18K+ in MRR
  • David Park, CEO Jenni, and shared that they are working on some collaboration with David Bressler, founder of excelformulabot, built using no-code Bubble.
  • 7todos - The Task Board Created For Makers, made over 5500$ in the last 5 months. See this earlier interview from the founder Gobie Nanthakumar on FounderBeats
  • Pratham and Savio made $4,500 in 10 days from their AI tool IconifyAI
  • Yasser shares hitting $1,240 CAD MRR just one week after launching Chatbase
  • Flurly was shut down by Stripe 'subject to a fine of $425,000' - See this post from Flurly for the details and how this impacts the sellers on the platform who get payouts through Paypal or Payoneer.
  • Domenico shares how he co-built and co-sold 3 micro-startups in 6 months with no code, and having a full-time job. ROI was 700%, 4000% and 4600% for the micro-startups
  • Kyle Nolan reached reached $6K MRR with ProjectionLab after 22 months. It took him 9 months to get to $1,000, 4 months to get to $2,000, 7 months to get to $5,000 and 2 months to get to $6,000
  • Serverless SaaS, SaaS boilerplate for React developers, got acquired. Founder Jake Prins, shares the journey here
  • GetMumu a macOS app bootstrapped by Wilbert Liu has been acquired for 5 figures
  • DataFetcher by Andy Cloke hits $15K MRR. See Andy's earlier interview at FounderBeats when he was at $8600 MRR
  • Aaron grows Choppity.com, a tool that edits TikToks/Reels using AI, to £117MRR in 37 days. He shares 5 things that made a huge difference
  • Alexander Belogubov made $2,350 in first month with Mention Tools - a social listening tool
  • Emailgurus a Gmail plugin reaches $500 MRR in Just 1 Month. See the interview of founder Aymane Sennoussi where he shares why he made the code open source and what led him to this success.
  • Our Pro member Ryan built AI based Domain Search and got 5 paying customers already.
  • Supabase has released ‘Supabase Clippy: ChatGPT for Supabase Docs’ - Here’s Greg explaining in detail how he built natural language search for Supabase docs.
  • Sébastien Lorber made €27300 in 2022, from his newsletter ‘This Week In React’ for React & React-Native developers.
  • Alex West has reached $500K/yr with his solo business CyberLeads that sends leads to digital agencies - handpicked companies that just raised millions and are looking to outsource.
  • Our Pro member Bhanu Teja has crossed $3K MRR with his blogging platform Feather - Here’s his earlier interview on FounderBeats when he was at $600 MRR
  • Leo Askan shares how he earned $913 by micro-exiting their side project in 1 month
  • Philip Baretto has reached $10,000 MRR from tiiny.host. Check out his earlier interview on FounderBeats
  • Founder of Tweetscrape shares how he used his own SaaS to grow it from 0$ to $5K MRR in 120 days using cold emails
  • Twitter has announced that from February 9, they will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead.
  • maven.com, the platform for live learning/cohort-based courses, is now open to the public for building courses. Earlier, teaching on Maven was invite-only and it remained in private-beta for 2 years.
  • TweetHunter.io, bootstrapped about 18 months ago, has been acquired for $1.4 million dollars upfront payment plus additional payment based on output for next 2 years between 3 founders.
  • Gary Darna, founder of a productized service for e-commerce operations management called Micromerch, reaches 14+K MRR in only 10 months! And he’s using a no-code stack. Check out his interview by FounderBeats
  • Sergey Bunas made a GPT-3 Chrome Extension for Twitter in one day and earned $1143 in 2 weeks! He shares his story here.
  • Mustafa Ergisi hits $1151 MRR and 128 active subscribers for ai2sql.io - an AI tool, powered by Codex for generating SQL queries.
  • tally.so has now reached $42.8K MRR. See the interview of Marie Martens, co-founder, on FounderBeats when Tally was at $25K MRR about 5 months ago!
  • Our pro member Christian Helvin has released artistembed.com - a tool that lets you generate your own free artist music widget in seconds.
  • shiftpro.io is an employee shift scheduling management platform, launched by our Pro member Yobiela, got 7 sign-ups in two months.
  • spellbound.cc is an AI writing app for Mac launched this week by our Pro member.

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