Case library

3D AI Studio

A small Heilbronn team's text-and-image-to-3D platform, 3.3 million dollars ARR and 1.5 million registered creators per its own press kit

Jan Hammer founded 3D AI Studio in Heilbronn, Germany, in 2024 to generate 3D models from text or images, with texturing, remeshing, a node-based workflow, an MCP connector for Claude and ChatGPT and an API; the company's own press page (statistics as of 5 July 2026) states 3.3 million dollars in ARR, over 1.5 million registered creators, over 3 million generated assets and a small team. A third-party newsletter in July 2024 had relayed about 12,800 euros MRR.

Income · revenue · annual

$3,300,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-07

Adavia Davis

A 22-year-old dropout's network of faceless AI YouTube channels, six-hour 'history to sleep to' documentaries, about $700,000 a year gross per AdSense records reviewed by Fortune

Adavia Davis, who dropped out of Mississippi State University in 2020, runs five active YouTube channels whose videos are almost entirely AI-generated: a pipeline called TubeGen built by partner Eddie Eizner writes scripts with Claude and narrates with ElevenLabs, at as little as 60 dollars per video and up to six hours long. In December 2025 Fortune reviewed his analytics screenshots and AdSense payout records and put annual gross revenue at roughly $700,000; he says the network makes 40,000–60,000 dollars a month at 85–89% margins on about 6,500 dollars of monthly costs, with roughly two hours of oversight a day.

Income · revenue · annual

$700,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2025-12

AgentaOS

A 20-year payments engineer's merchant-of-record platform in Tallinn, run alone with AI agents, $9,500 MRR two months after launch

Panche Isajeski, a payments engineer from North Macedonia building in Tallinn since 2024, first built a fix for card payments in the Balkans, which failed for being too early, then pivoted to AgentaOS, a merchant of record that acts as the official seller for freelancers and SaaS founders, handling tax, invoices and chargebacks, and can be set up from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. In October 2026 he told Indie Hackers that since an August launch 400+ founders had signed up, 1,400+ payments had been processed and MRR was $9,500, with zero employees and AI agents handling onboarding, support, operations and much of the code.

Income · MRR · monthly

$9,500

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-10

AI Buddy

A laid-off developer's Chrome sidebar AI assistant, 15 paying users and $435 MRR six weeks after launch

Juejin author cwsaibuddy had built projects for five years without one passing a single user; after a layoff the author cut 11 of 12 ideas in week one and built AI Buddy, a Chrome sidebar AI assistant at 29 dollars a month. In June 2026 the author wrote that six weeks after launch it had 15 paying users and $435 MRR, that the first paying user came from a reply in an old Reddit thread, and that the product would be shut down if it did not reach 35 users within 30 days.

Income · MRR · monthly

$435

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-06

AI Podcasting

An ex-Paramount product lead's '80% AI, 20% human' podcast post-production service at 3,000 dollars a month, 14,500 dollars MRR

Adithyan Ilangovan, a video-engineering graduate, quit his job with no plan when ChatGPT launched, failed with a first technical product, then built AI Podcasting, a post-production service bundling editing, audio cleanup, clips, show notes, thumbnails, distribution and sponsor operations, done manually first and automated later; in March 2026 he told Indie Hackers it makes 14,500 dollars MRR, the site lists 3,000 dollars a month for independent creators, and the company is registered in Tallinn.

Income · MRR · monthly

$14,500

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-03

aiCarousels

An Argentinian designer's social-carousel tool built in ten days in Sweden, $5,000 MRR in six months at 95% profit

Fernando Pessagno, an Argentinian product designer in Malmö, built aiCarousels during a ten-day public challenge so non-designers can generate LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok carousels with AI; in a November 2023 Starter Story interview he said it reached $5,000 MRR six months in, about 95% of it profit, solo with no employees, with SEO as the biggest traffic source.

Income · MRR · monthly

$5,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2023-11

AIDesigner.ai

An ex-Meta product manager's solo AI UI design tool, from 1,000 to $9,500 MRR in 30 days

Tyler Yin (Wiz), who studied design at UCLA, taught at Parsons and was a product manager at Meta, built AIDesigner.ai alone to generate web and app interfaces from text, with an MCP server that plugs into Claude Code and Cursor; an MRR Story case shows him announcing $9,500 MRR on 1 May 2026, up from 1,000 a month earlier.

Income · MRR · monthly

$9,500

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

AI Flow Chat + Starpop

After a VC-backed failure and one viral tweet, Alexander Van Le bootstrapped two AI products to 20,000 dollars MRR combined

Alexander Van Le, with a computer-science and finance degree, co-founded a VC-backed fintech that died with zero revenue, went back to a job, quit after one tweet went viral and bootstrapped AI Flow Chat, an AI canvas for creators and marketers, and Starpop, an AI ad agent; in a February 2026 Indie Hackers case study he said the two bring in 20,000 dollars MRR combined, grown by community infiltration and cold DMs rather than ads.

Income · MRR · monthly

$20,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-02

Aitana López

An AI model created by the Spanish agency The Clueless, earning up to 10,000 euros a month according to her creators, usually about 3,000, at just over 1,000 euros per advert

Aitana López is a pink-haired AI model with a Barcelona persona, built by the agency The Clueless, founded by Rubén Cruz, during a slow stretch with few clients. Euronews reported in November 2023 (Laura Llach) that, according to her creators, she can earn up to 10,000 euros a month and usually averages about 3,000; she earns just over 1,000 euros per advert, became the face of the sports-supplement brand Big and posts paid content on the subscription platform Fanvue; she gained 343,000 Instagram followers in a year and a half. Recorded as €3,000–€10,000 a month, grade B (creators' statements relayed by media).

Income · revenue · monthly

€3,000–€10,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2023-11

Akemnoor Singh

A random-winner-generator platform delivered with Cursor and Claude without hand-writing code, one 500-dollar gig in about 25 hours

In an August 2025 Dev.to post, Akemnoor Singh recounted taking a gig to build a "Random Winner Generator" platform, generating the code with Cursor and Claude 3.7 Sonnet while handling requirements, testing and delivery in person, and earning 500 dollars for about 25 hours. A single self-reported job; recorded as $500 total, grade B.

Income · revenue · to date

$500

Founder's own disclosure · 2025-08

Aryan Mahajan

From AI chatbots and Upwork gigs to a Dubai AI services company (including Zoro) he says makes 100,000 dollars a month

The header of an August 2026 Indie Hackers case study says Aryan Mahajan went "from broke and idealess to building a 100,000-dollar-a-month AI services company". The ungated opening says he has been based in Dubai since September 2024, started with AI chatbots and Upwork gigs, productised the services, and now runs a portfolio that includes Zoro. Recorded as $100,000 a month at grade B; the gated body was not read, so team, pricing and what Zoro is remain unknown.

Income · revenue · monthly

$100,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-08

Base44

An Israeli programmer's solo AI app builder, bootstrapped to profit within months and sold to Wix for 80 million dollars

After extended reserve duty in early 2025, Maor Shlomo built Base44 alone, a platform that generates complete apps from natural language, with about 30,000 shekels of his own money and no funding; Globes reported it profitable by March 2025 with its first six hires in May. In June 2025 Wix bought it for 80 million dollars in cash plus milestone payments through 2029; Calcalist reported ARR of only "a few million" at closing, 100 million dollars in ARR nine months later under Wix, and about 90 million more due to the founder.

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Bazzly.ai

Quit a 7,000-dollar-a-month job for a Reddit marketing automation tool, 1,757 dollars MRR after 15 months

Filip Panoski's solo product Bazzly monitors Reddit for relevant posts, drafts AI replies and publishes them through aged accounts, aimed at SaaS and product teams. In an April 2026 MRR Story account he said it reached 1,757 dollars MRR and 40 paying customers after 15 months, mostly by posting from high-karma Reddit accounts. The site in October 2026 lists one plan at 199 dollars a month with 170 credits. Recorded as $1,757 MRR, grade B.

Income · MRR · monthly

$1,757

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-04

BetterPic

A bootstrapped AI headshot company from Ghent, 20,016 dollars gross in July 2024; the later '3M revenue' in its blog is a projection

BetterPic, the AI headshot and fashion-photo service built by Ricardo Ghekiere and Miguel Rasero, opened its books in a first-person Starter Story interview in August 2024: gross revenue of 20,016 dollars in July 2024, up 90% on the month, 3,680 dollars of profit before salaries and a 6.78% refund rate. A year later the company blog claimed 32 million photos and a 2.5-million-dollar seed round, but the '3M revenue' in its headline is projected annual revenue in the text, so the tracker records only the actual July 2024 figure.

Income · revenue · monthly

$20,016

Media report or relayed statement · 2024-07

BloggenAI

Mamun Miah's AI content generator, 216 dollars in its first three months, domain gone two years later

Mamun Miah launched BloggenAI in August 2024 to generate text, images, PDF chat and YouTube summaries, made nothing at first, added a lifetime price in October and posted in relevant subreddits and on X, selling two lifetime and three monthly subscriptions; on 30 October 2024 Mamun Miah wrote on Indie Hackers that August to October brought 216 dollars. By October 2026 the domain no longer resolved, so the status is unknown.

Income · revenue · to date

$216

Founder's own disclosure · 2024-10

Bluedot

A Ukrainian team's AI note-taking extension for Google Meet in San Francisco, over $1,500 MRR two months after a pivot from an unsellable first product

Ruslan Halilov, with a recruiting and sales background, and former product manager Dima started in 2022, spent six months on a first product they could not sell to anyone, then built in three months a Chrome extension that writes Google Meet notes without a bot joining the call; in a December 2023 Starter Story interview he said MRR was over $1,500 growing 50% a month at 18 dollars a seat, with three founders plus two staff, about 260,000 dollars from angels and a Google grant for Ukrainian startups.

Income · MRR · monthly

≥ $1,500

Media report or relayed statement · 2023-12

BridgeMind

A linguistics graduate's self-taught 'vibe coding operating system', live-streamed daily toward a million-dollar goal, about 14,800 dollars MRR

Matthew Miller, a linguistics graduate and former Hebrew and Yiddish translator who began teaching himself to program in late 2023, built BridgeMind, where AI agents claim tasks from a Kanban board, share project rules and turn voice into code; an MRR Story case compiled in May 2026 puts MRR at about 14,830 dollars, driven by daily YouTube live streams of up to six hours and 70,000 subscribers.

Income · MRR · monthly

$14,830

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

Chat Agency AI

A former Cisco design executive's New York AI platform-plus-bespoke-builds business, about 10,000 dollars a month after its first weeks

Chad Vavra led UX for Cisco.com and says he has worked with Pixar, Meta and Google; with a co-founder he runs Chat Agency AI in New York, building AI tools around a team's own process and requiring users to review and initiate each step. In a February 2026 Starter Story piece he said it started in January 2026, makes about 10,000 dollars a month and has two founders plus two employees; recorded as $10,000 a month, grade B. A podcast dates the company to 2024, so the start date is left blank.

Income · revenue · monthly

$10,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-02

ChatSEO

A Search Console AI assistant from three French co-founders, about 14,000 euros MRR on organic traffic alone

ChatSEO connects to Google Search Console and explains in conversation why a site performs as it does and what to fix first. Co-founders Paul Vengeons (a French SEO consultant), Nicholas Dulait and Léo Leducq said in a May 2026 MRR Story account that it makes about 14,000 euros MRR and 70,000 euros in its first five months with no paid ads, using free mini-tools built with Claude Code for traffic. In October 2026 the site lists Starter from 29, Pro from 49 and Ranker from 79 euros a month and claims 20,000+ site owners. Recorded as €14,000 MRR, grade B.

Income · MRR · monthly

€14,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

Chucaiji

A recipe mini program built by one person with AI in 19 days, earning only a trickle of ad revenue, with inconsistent figures (lead)

Indie developer 实用切口 (Shiyong Qiekou) started the WeChat mini program Chucaiji (recipes and pantry tracking) on 18 September 2025 and delivered it in 19 days; ad revenue after enabling WeChat's ad programme was minimal. A Juejin article from October 2026 retells it as an example of delivery speed mattering more than income in the AI era, but the income figures in its title, body and quoted original contradict one another, so the tracker keeps it as a lead and shows no income.

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clawr.ing

A Portugal-based developer's service that lets an AI agent phone you, 20+ subscribers and over $100 MRR within weeks

An OpenClaw user in Portugal built clawr.ing: paste one prompt and your AI agent can phone you when something you care about happens, such as an important email or a stock move, with interruptions and tool use during the call; in a March 2026 Hacker News post the developer said the service passed $100 MRR within weeks, with 20+ subscribers calling daily.

Income · MRR · monthly

≥ $100

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-03

CoverAI

A Nigerian developer's 386-dollar AI résumé tool with 13,000 organic customers, sold three months after launch to New York's Writesea for an undisclosed five-figure cash deal

TechCabal reported in October 2023 (by Ngozi Chukwu) that Chris Adolphus's CoverAI, an OpenAI-based résumé and cover-letter tool, cost 386 dollars to start, gathered 13,000 organic customers in three months with a 5-dollar basic plan, a 7-dollar premium plan and a 15-dollar lifetime plan plus a free tier, drew 12 bids on Acquire.com and was sold to New York-based Writesea in an undisclosed "five-figure cash deal" (one source put it under 50,000 dollars). No revenue figure was disclosed, so the case is grade C with only the exit and buyer recorded.

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Cuppa

Ryan Darani closed a 65,000-dollar-MRR SEO consultancy to join a friend's acquired AI writing tool, now at 41,000–45,000 dollars MRR in under two years

Cuppa is an AI writing tool for SEO-ready articles that Ryan Darani's friend acquired and the two now run together. The header of a 22 January 2025 Indie Hackers case study says 59,000 dollars a month; in the ungated opening Darani says Cuppa has over 1,000 members and MRR fluctuating between 41,000 and 45,000 dollars by season, plus a done-for-you AI content-operations service for agencies launched in November 2024 that signed ten clients by late December and sits at 13,500 dollars MRR. The tracker records Cuppa alone at $41,000–$45,000 MRR, grade B; the acquisition price and date are undisclosed.

Income · MRR · monthly

$41,000–$45,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2025-01

Daozai

Ran four online stores from a sickbed with AI instead of the ten-person team he had planned; says each store sold 50,000–80,000 yuan in January 2026 with 25,000–30,000 yuan of monthly net profit

Daozai (a handle; 35, Henan) planned to rent a warehouse and hire ten people to sell winter shoes, then spent 70-plus days bedridden and decided to "replace those ten people with AI": AI advises on ad budgets and demand trends, analyses top stores and batch-generates copy and images, and a Coze workflow produces a daily operations report; factories drop-ship, customer service is outsourced at 1,000 yuan a month plus a few dozen yuan of AI auto-replies, for about 2,000 yuan of monthly operating cost. In a September 2026 AIX Finance interview he said he had opened 12 stores and now runs 4 main ones, each averaging 50,000–80,000 yuan in sales in January 2026, with about 25,000–30,000 yuan of monthly net profit after allocating all costs. Recorded as ¥25,000–¥30,000 monthly profit, grade B.

Income · profit · monthly

¥25,000–¥30,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-01

Enhance.AI

YouTuber Adrian Twarog's OpenAI GPT writing site, built in a month and sold; the price appears only in third-party retellings and is not recorded

Web developer and YouTuber Adrian Twarog (419K subscribers) published a video titled, in the creator's words, I sold my OpenAI GPT Website for 30,000 dollars; its description says the creator designed and built a SaaS site with React and AI from scratch in a month and has now sold it, making "just over" that amount from the whole experience, a total that includes the sale, subscriptions and the video's own income. The sale price, subscription revenue and buyer appear only in third-party articles compiled from the video, which the tracker's rules do not allow, so the case is grade C: status sold, no income or exit price shown.

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EvyAI

A LinkedIn AI assistant from a New York agency owner, 23,000 users and revenue he says is approaching one million dollars a year

Joe Apfelbaum runs the marketing agency Ajax Union (about one million dollars a year, he says) and built EvyAI, an AI assistant that drafts LinkedIn posts and comments for sales and social teams. In a Mixergy interview on 30 December 2025 he said EvyAI is "approaching a million" dollars a year with 23,000 users in 40 countries and a Pro plan at 3,600 dollars a year. Recorded as ≤ $1,000,000 a year at grade B; Ajax Union's revenue is not counted here.

Income · revenue · annual

≤ $1,000,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2025-12

Ferry (渡)

Sahadev's desktop file organiser, about 70% AI-written code, first sale at 9.9 yuan and over 100,000 yuan cumulative in about six months

In the tenth post of a juejin series "How I went from idea to product and earned my first 100,000 alone in the AI era" (29 March 2026), Sahadev reviewed Ferry (渡), a desktop file organiser: over 100,000 yuan cumulative in about six months, a first order of 9.9 yuan, a free tier of 50 files, a cost of about 0.07 yuan per run and no ads; AI wrote about 70% of the code and 80% of the copy. The post ends by promoting a paid guide and community and gives no product link. Recorded as ≥ ¥100,000 cumulative, grade B.

Income · revenue · to date

≥ ¥100,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-03

Flibbo

A Turkish founder who cannot code outsourced an AI content app and says it makes about $55,000 MRR

Sina Sinry funded Flibbo, a mobile app that bundles AI photo, video and music generation with viral post ideas on top of third-party models such as Veo and Kling, with profits from an earlier e-commerce business and freelance developers from Upwork; in an MRR Story case compiled in May 2026 he put MRR at about $55,000 with peaks above 90,000, launched to his 900k-follower Instagram audience and grown with TikTok ads.

Income · MRR · monthly

$55,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

Footly

A teenage founder's AI football-training app from North Macedonia, past $10,000 MRR in its third month

Angel Stoevski's Footly lets players upload training or match clips for AI analysis of technique and a personalised training plan; in an MRR Story case compiled in May 2026 he said MRR crossed $10,000 in the third month after launch with over 10,000 players signed up, grown through mid-tier football creators rather than big influencers.

Income · MRR · monthly

≥ $10,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

ForgeGUI

A teenage solo developer's AI game-UI generator for Roblox and UEFN creators, 100,000 dollars ARR in six weeks

Giulio (@im_the_giulio) launched ForgeGUI on 12 March 2026 to generate game thumbnails, health bars, skill icons, inventory screens and Roblox clothing, locking a style from a reference screenshot, editing layers in the browser and exporting transparent PNGs; in an MRR Story case he said it crossed 100,000 dollars ARR (over $8,300 MRR) about six weeks later with more than 20,000 users, grown by building in public on X and word of mouth among Roblox and UEFN developers.

Income · MRR · monthly

≥ $8,300

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-04

FounderPal

The AI marketing platform in a laid-off founder's portfolio of indie tools, about $215,000 in two years

When the startup Dan Kulkov worked for ran out of money he turned to indie products, starting with low-hanging fruit and building five, selling one, leaving MakerBox, FounderPal and Lead Magnet Examples; in an October 2025 Indie Hackers case study he said the AI marketing platform FounderPal generated about $215,000 in two years and the three products together about 10,000 dollars a month, with FounderPal sold as a lifetime deal.

Income · revenue · to date

$215,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2025-10

FUNTASTIC YT

A Philippine computer-science student's AI kitten clips made with ChatGPT and KlingAI, nearly 600,000 subscribers and a best month of 9,000 dollars in AdSense

Mark Lawrence I Garilao, a 21-year-old computer-science student in the Philippines, posts AI clips about a kitten and its father on the YouTube channel FUNTASTIC YT: one or two a day, one or two hours each, with ChatGPT for the characters, KlingAI for the video and other software for editing. NPR reported on 28 August 2025 (John Ruwitch) quoting him: "The highest I made was in the month of May. I made $9,000 in just one month"; the channel has nearly 600,000 subscribers and nearly 500 million views, paid through Google's AdSense. Recorded as $9,000 a month for May 2025, the best month, grade B.

Income · revenue · monthly

$9,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2025-05

Garcy Studio

A three-person Prague design studio that halved headcount and workload with AI while holding revenue at about 340,000 dollars a year

Tom Garcy has run Garcy Studio in Prague since 2008. The header of an April 2026 Indie Hackers case study says 37,000 dollars a month; in the ungated opening he says revenue is around 340,000 dollars a year with a core team of three, flat for two years while headcount and workload were halved and revenue per project hour doubled or tripled, with AI applied to back-office, client and project management. Recorded as $340,000 a year, grade B. He also sold another company, Kyugo, to a private investor last year.

Income · revenue · annual

$340,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-04

GenAIPI

Jon Cheney started AI implementation consulting alone with 400 dollars and says it now runs at about 4.5 million dollars in annual recurring revenue

GenAIPI (General Artificial Intelligence Proficiency Institute), founded by Jon Cheney, helps companies adopt AI through fractional chief-AI-officer work, implementation and training. In an April 2026 Mixergy interview he said it runs at about 4.5 million dollars in annual recurring revenue, that he started alone with 400 dollars and reached about one million using AI tools before building a delivery team, and that pricing runs 10,000 to 15,000 dollars a month with an average client around 17,000. All figures are his own statements, grade B.

Income · revenue · annual

$4,500,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-04

GoStudio.ai

A jobless woman in Chandigarh taught herself AI and built a headshot site, about $1,500 MRR in six months from cold DMs

Jobless after two unpaid internships, Kanika built GoStudio.ai alone from a rented house in Chandigarh, a tier-3 Indian city, starting January 2025: upload 10–15 selfies and get 60+ professional headshots. In a July 2025 Hacker News post Kanika said it crossed about $1,500 MRR in six months, all from cold DMs, with no ads and no funding.

Income · MRR · monthly

≥ $1,500

Founder's own disclosure · 2025-07

Hovers.ai

A two-person AI SEO workbench from keyword research to publishing, $600 MRR in its first month

Anirban Roy and a co-founder built Hovers.ai, which puts keyword research, a 30-day content calendar, AI drafting, structured data and one-click publishing to WordPress and Shopify in one flow; in a September 2025 Hacker News post Anirban Roy said a launch on X brought 30,000+ impressions and 80+ signups, MRR reached $600 the previous month, and two enterprise clients were onboarded.

Income · MRR · monthly

$600

Founder's own disclosure · 2025-08

Jin Yong-hyun

Built an AI agent that automates client management for an accounting firm after work, about 2,000 dollars of extra income

The Korea Daily (Joongang Ilbo USA) reported on 2 July 2026 on the AI side-hustle boom among office workers and students; in it, 28-year-old AI developer Jin Yong-hyun built a custom AI agent service that automates client management for an accounting firm and says it brought about 2,000 dollars of extra income. He says a service of this size used to need substantial development time and cost, and now he can build and run it alone after work with AI in a short time. The report gives no time window or contract form; recorded as $2,000 total, grade B.

Income · revenue · to date

$2,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-07

JobBuddy

A UK developer's AI cover-letter tool, free for two years, past $1,000 MRR only in April 2025

Josh, a UK software developer known as @hellwaiver, posted a free AI cover-letter generator to Reddit in early 2023 and forgot about it; six months later he found 700 active users and added accounts and paid tiers. In an MRR Story case he said the product has over 10,000 users and 150+ paying subscribers, crossed $1,000 MRR in April 2025, and is run alongside a full-time job.

Income · MRR · monthly

$1,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2025-04

Lancer

After selling his agency, a North Macedonian founder's Upwork lead-gen agent hit 10,000 dollars MRR in two months and is now at 20,000 dollars

Ivan Nedelkovski sold his 15-person, seven-figure software consultancy in 2025 to start a product studio; its first product, Lancer, is an AI agent that finds and pursues Upwork leads for freelancers and agencies. In July 2026 he said it hit 10,000 dollars MRR within two months of launch and is now at 20,000 dollars, with a two-person team.

Income · MRR · monthly

$20,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-07

Launch Fast

An Amazon seller who cannot code built a product-research tool in Cursor in 48 hours, distributed it through one coaching community, and reached 30,000 dollars MRR

Hasaam Bhatti ran two Amazon brands beside a corporate job, had no CS degree and had never written code, and had ten or twelve products that never shipped until he used Cursor to turn his own 20-to-30-hour product-research routine into Launch Fast, pitching the seller coaching community Legacy X, where he had bought a course two years earlier: give me 48 hours, partner with me if you like it. In June 2026 he told Indie Hackers it hit 10,000 dollars MRR on day 30, 21,800 dollars on day 90 and 30,000 dollars now, with a Chrome extension and an MCP server for AI agents.

Income · MRR · monthly

$30,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-06

Leadmore AI

After a failed consumer AI product, Richard Wang built a Reddit marketing tool to about 30,000 dollars MRR in four months with no marketing spend

After three months on a consumer AI product that found no users, Richard Wang shut it down, went looking for cheap acquisition channels and found that Reddit delivers traffic without followers; he built a community of about 300 before writing code, then shipped Leadmore AI, which finds subreddits, posts safely through built-in accounts and surfaces prospects. In December 2025 he wrote on Indie Hackers that it reached about 30,000 dollars MRR four months after launch with no marketing spend, and in February 2026 that a one-day run rate put it past a million dollars annualised.

Income · MRR · monthly

≥ $30,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2025-12

Li Yizhou's AI course

40 lessons at 199 yuan, about 250,000 copies and an estimated 50 million yuan in a year, suspended by WeChat and hidden on Douyin in February 2024 (closed)

Li Yizhou, a Tsinghua design PhD and startup mentor, pivoted his personal-brand course to "AI for Everyone" in 2023, listed at 999 yuan and sold at 199; the data vendor Feigua estimated about 250,000 copies and roughly 50 million yuan in a year, and TechNode reported over 200,000 copies. In February 2024, after buyers complained of thin content and upselling, his WeChat mini program was suspended, the Channels storefront removed and his Douyin account hidden; he has not posted since, so the tracker records it as closed.

Income · revenue · annual

¥50,000,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2024-02

Lin Yuan

From running three Amazon stores at a trade company to a one-person Shenzhen company selling heated gloves to Russia with ChatGPT, Midjourney and Amazon's AI tools; 7,000 orders in one winter, no money figure

In March 2025 Lin Yuan was operations lead at a Shenzhen trading company, managing three Amazon stores with a team of four or five; in mid-2025 he quit, registered a one-person company and now runs it from a 30-square-metre flat. He had AI crawl 5,000 negative reviews in the warm-wear category on the Russian marketplace over three months, found "finger dexterity" and "battery life" as the pain points, and had a factory upgrade the fingers of a heated glove; ChatGPT writes the Russian descriptions and ad copy, Midjourney designs the main images, Amazon's AI tools analyse competitors and keywords, and an AI avatar voices product videos in Russian. A Xiaguang News report in April 2026 quotes him: "last winter this glove sold seven thousand orders". The report gives no price, cost or revenue figure, so the case is grade C with no income shown.

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Mediastorm's AI course

A 49-yuan course by the 10-million-follower studio with TapNow, 100,000 copies on day one, an estimated 4.9 million yuan in a day

The tech-video studio Mediastorm (founder Tim, a team of 100+, revenue past 100 million yuan in 2024) launched a 16-lesson AI course with the AI platform TapNow in a July 2026 livestream, priced at 99 yuan with a 49-yuan coupon; Jiemian and others reported over 100,000 copies sold within a day, an estimated 4.9 million yuan, with 1,600+ positive and 80+ negative reviews on the Douyin product page, the latter about templated exercises and "paying 49 yuan to watch hours of ads".

Income · revenue · to date

≥ ¥4,900,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-07

Meerkats.ai

A 20-year GTM consultant's AI agent platform, over 3,000 dollars MRR four weeks after launch, kept running on a university venture grant

After 20 years in SaaS go-to-market at Gartner Consulting and Tata Consultancy Services, Santanu Dasgupta built Meerkats.ai, which orchestrates AI agents from a chat interface to do lead generation, campaigns and follow-ups; in May 2026 he said MRR passed 3,000 dollars four weeks after launch, with a University of Chicago Polsky Center grant, agency services and cloud credits covering operations.

Income · MRR · monthly

≥ $3,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

Motionvid.ai

A Cyprus developer's AI motion-graphics video tool, 40,000 dollars in four days from an AppSumo lifetime deal, $7,775 MRR

Anatoly Pashias built Motionvid.ai in Limassol with a filmmaker friend to generate motion graphics, infographics and map animations from text or reference images, on a claimed proprietary model plus Veo and Kling; an MRR Story case shows an AppSumo lifetime deal that brought 40,000 dollars in four days in April 2026, MRR of $7,775 in May and over 44,000 dollars all-time.

Income · MRR · monthly

$7,775

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

Mumu

A macOS emoji app whose search keywords were generated with GPT-3, hundreds of paying customers, sold for an undisclosed five figures via Acquire.com

On 10 February 2023 indie developer Wilbert Liu posted an AMA on Indie Hackers: Mumu, a macOS emoji-search app, used GPT-3 to generate search keywords for every emoji, had hundreds of paying customers, and after about six months listed on Acquire.com was acquired for "five figures", closing within one to two weeks. Price and revenue were not disclosed, so the case is grade C with only the exit recorded.

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My AskAI

Two Brits' AI support agent that plugs into Intercom and Zendesk, around 40,000 dollars MRR

After his insurance startup died in the pandemic, Alex Rainey turned to bootstrapped products and in early 2023 founded My AskAI with Mike Heap, letting companies drop an AI support agent into the helpdesk they already use; in July 2025 he said it handles 75,000+ support chats a month at about 40,000 dollars MRR, still with a team of two.

Income · MRR · monthly

$40,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2025-07

Nichesss

A self-taught programmer's GPT-3 writing tool run from Rio, 100,000 dollars net in its first AppSumo month, about $30,000 a month

Malcolm Tyson got GPT-3 API access in November 2020 and built Nichesss within a month to generate business ideas, blog posts, ads and social copy; an AppSumo listing in January 2021 brought 100,000 dollars after the platform's cut in its first month. In a January 2022 Starter Story interview he said it makes about $30,000 a month, has been profitable from the start, is run solo with AppSumo as the main channel, and spends 2,000 dollars a month on AI generation. The site was still running in 2026 selling a 59-dollar lifetime deal.

Income · revenue · monthly

$30,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2022-01

NinjaPear

After Proxycurl was sued by LinkedIn and sold, Steven Goh built a B2B company-intelligence platform with Claude Code in two weeks, over 15,000 dollars gross a month six months later

Steven Goh describes himself as a software engineer of 20+ years who has sold two companies; his LinkedIn data API Proxycurl reached 10 million dollars ARR, was sued by LinkedIn in January 2025, settled out of court and was sold to a competitor. Immobilised by a broken foot, he then prototyped and launched NinjaPear, a B2B company-intelligence and data-enrichment platform, with Claude Code in two weeks. The opening of a 7 July 2026 Indie Hackers case study says they did over 15,000 dollars in gross revenue the previous month, six months after launch. Recorded as ≥ $15,000 a month, grade B; Proxycurl's sale price is undisclosed and not part of this case.

Income · revenue · monthly

≥ $15,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-07

NoNerds

An AI course platform founded in 2022 by a 19-year-old Jordanian, sold to JoAcademy in 2026 for about 140,000 dollars, with the founder joining to lead AI

NoNerds, founded by Mohammad Alsufi in 2022, lets students and educators create and sell online courses, with AI turning teaching material into flashcards, quizzes, notes and study paths. Waya reported in June 2026 that Jordanian edtech company JoAcademy acquired NoNerds for 140,000 dollars, with the founder joining JoAcademy to lead its AI work; no revenue was reported, and other outlets cite about 12,000 students. Recorded at grade C with only the exit price and buyer.

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Nureply

An Ankara solo developer's GPT-3 cold-email icebreaker tool, 4,000 dollars a month in its fourth month

Onur Geneş, who previously ran a software agency and wrote nearly the same outreach email every day, built Nureply in April 2022: OpenAI's GPT-3 models (later a custom model) generate a personalised icebreaker for each recipient, sold to SaaS and agency owners. In a first-person Starter Story piece dated 12 September 2022 he said "Nureply makes $4,000 per month in the 4th month", solo with no employees, acquiring customers through email outreach, Facebook, Twitter and word of mouth with no paid ads, at about 300 dollars per customer. Recorded as $4,000 a month, grade B. In October 2026 the site is still live and its structured data lists DuoCircle LLC as the parent organisation; no announcement of a sale was found, so the status is recorded as uncertain.

Income · revenue · monthly

$4,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2022-09

ParakeetAI

A Slovenian engineer's real-time AI call assistant, bootstrapped to over 1 million dollars a month in two years

Ex-Microsoft engineer Jure Sotošek built ParakeetAI in 2024 to feed answers in real time during interviews and sales calls; in a September 2026 Indie Hackers case study he said it was bootstrapped past 1 million dollars in monthly revenue in under two years, with 1.5 million users, grown through organic short-form video.

Income · revenue · monthly

≥ $1,000,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-09

Payout

A two-founder, roughly 10-dollar-start class-action-claims app built with AI assistance that reached one million dollars ARR in nine months

Payout, by Casper Opala and Connor Burd, helps consumers discover and file claims for corporate class-action settlements, says it has surfaced over 80 million dollars in available settlements, and markets itself as a discovery platform, not a law firm. In a May 2026 MRR Story account the founders said it reached 1,003,227 dollars ARR in nine months, shown on a live dashboard during an X AMA on 2 May 2026, from a roughly 10-dollar start with 80% organic growth. The product is not AI, but it was built and marketed (AI-agent comments) with AI; recorded as $1,003,227 a year, grade B.

Income · revenue · annual

$1,003,227

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

pdforge

After selling a stake in a SaaS, a solo founder's AI-agent PDF generator whose first customers were the founder's ex-partners, $1,000 MRR

After four years growing a B2B SaaS to 2 million dollars ARR, Marcelo Breum sold the stake back to the partners and built pdforge alone: a no-code PDF generation platform driven by AI agents. In a March 2025 Hacker News post Breum said it was at $1,000 MRR, that the former co-founders became the first customers before the founder had even left, and that the goal is 83,000 dollars MRR as a company of one.

Income · MRR · monthly

$1,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2025-03

Pep AI

A University of Oregon student's peptide and GLP-1 tracker with a paid AI meal scanner, $60,000 MRR a few months after launch

Cedric Roberge built a waitlist in Reddit's weight-loss and biohacking communities, then launched Pep AI in early 2026 to log doses, injection sites and side effects, with AI meal and body scanning behind the paywall; in an MRR Story case compiled in May 2026 he said it reached $60,000 MRR within months, and that a 30,000-dollar influencer month returned 60,000 dollars in the same month.

Income · MRR · monthly

$60,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

PixelPanda

A store-owning developer tired of paying for product shoots built a 5-dollar-for-200-photos AI tool, earning 'low three figures' a month

A developer who runs a 60-SKU home-goods store and spent over 6,000 dollars on product photography last year (posting as kungfupandaryan) built PixelPanda: upload a phone snap and get 200 studio-quality product shots in about 30 seconds for a one-time 5 dollars. In March 2026 the developer wrote on Indie Hackers that it sells about 2–3 times a day for low-three-figure monthly revenue, with roughly 50 dollars a month of infrastructure, Google Ads at 35 dollars a week yielding one sale, and ChatGPT referrals as the best channel. By October 2026 the site had switched to subscriptions.

Income · revenue · monthly

$300–$450

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-03

PressW

An Austin custom generative-AI development firm whose founder says it did over 2 million dollars last year

PressW, founded by Tarun Thummala, builds custom generative-AI systems for regulated, document-heavy industries, such as automating court documents from 5,000 court systems for a background-check company and a chat system for a Texas family-law firm. In a January 2026 Mixergy interview he said the firm "did over 2 million last year", recorded as ≥ $2,000,000 a year at grade B; about 80% of the team are software people and the services business started three years earlier. The site describes PressW as an official Anthropic partner.

Income · revenue · annual

≥ $2,000,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2025-12

Proofsource

An internal AI-visibility tool built for a finance product became its own product, five customers paying 1,500 dollars a month in the first week out of beta

Lokesh built a tool to check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews mention the finance ERP product Rivane that Lokesh also runs; friends wanted it too, so it became Proofsource. In an October 2026 Hacker News post Lokesh said it had five paying customers worth 1,500 dollars a month in total in the first week out of beta, with over 60 brands having used it.

Income · MRR · monthly

$1,500

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-10

ProspectZero

A US indie developer's LinkedIn prospecting agent, 1,100 dollars MRR in 30 days, back to 900 after one customer churned

Matt Anderson built ProspectZero with Claude Code: it derives an ideal-customer profile from a URL, tracks buying signals, scores prospects and sends outreach on LinkedIn, while Reddit, Quora and content agents do his marketing; in an MRR Story case compiled in April 2026 he said it reached 1,100 dollars MRR in about 30 days, then fell to roughly 900 when one poorly matched customer churned.

Income · MRR · monthly

$900

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-04

Remodex

A Naples CS student's overnight iOS remote for Codex, about $10,000 in total revenue a month after launch

On 8 March 2026 Emanuele Di Pietro set out to ship an iOS remote control for OpenAI's Codex before OpenAI did, using Codex itself to help, and had a working version by 4 a.m.; the Mac bridge is open source. In an MRR Story case he said that after a Product Hunt launch and a MacStories review it reached roughly $10,000 in total revenue about a month after launch, solo with no employees.

Income · revenue · to date

≥ $10,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-04

ReplyDaddy + NoobBookLM

A Bengaluru ex-product lead's two solo AI tools, over $5,300 MRR combined

After four years in product at the commerce platform Dukaan, Neel Seth went solo and built ReplyDaddy, which uses Claude's API to find Reddit threads and draft replies for indie founders, and NoobBookLM, an AI tool for teaching and strategy; in an MRR Story case compiled in May 2026 he said the two make over $5,300 MRR combined, about 1,500 from ReplyDaddy and 3,800 from NoobBookLM's enterprise deals and warm intros.

Income · MRR · monthly

≥ $5,300

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

ResumeUp.AI

Two Bangalore engineers' AI resume tool, launched in three months, hundreds of customers from an AppSumo deal, about $4,000 MRR

Hareesh Vemasani and Rohith started ResumeUp.AI in Bangalore in August 2025, built AI resume generation, an ATS checker, LinkedIn optimisation and an application tracker in three to four months and hit #1 on Product Hunt; in a November 2025 Starter Story interview he said MRR is about $4,000, the team is two founders plus three employees, and the first dollar came three days after launch.

Income · MRR · monthly

$4,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2025-11

Rezi

An AI resume builder run from Seoul, launched 2019, GPT-3 since late 2020, 215,000 dollars a month and profitable by the founder's account

Jacob Jacquet had the idea for Rezi in 2015, lost four years to financing and an outsourced build, launched it as B2C software in September 2019 and added GPT-3 in December 2020; in an August 2024 Starter Story interview he said it makes 215,000 dollars a month, is profitable, has 11 staff in a Seoul office and about 2.62 million users, and that he stopped ads that cost 15,000 dollars a month without a positive return.

Income · MRR · monthly

$215,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2024-08

RotateProduct

A Kosovo developer's one-photo-to-360° product video tool, $6,772 MRR after 21 weeks of building in public

Lorik Morina, with 20 years of development behind him, built RotateProduct, which turns one product photo into a 3D rotating video (iOS, web and a Shopify app), and SecureVibing, a vulnerability scanner for vibe-coded sites; in an MRR Story case compiled in May 2026 he said the portfolio hit $6,772 MRR in week 21 of building in public, 6,512 from the app and 260 from the web, with Meta ads from 20 dollars a day.

Income · MRR · monthly

$6,772

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

Setter AI

Two Germans' AI appointment setter that went from 10,000 dollars MRR to zero and back above 10,000 dollars

After selling his e-commerce agency, Timo Tzschetzsch built Setter AI with self-taught developer Josef Büttgen: an AI agent that answers leads within seconds on WhatsApp, SMS or web chat and books meetings straight into the calendar. In separate 2025 Indie Hackers case studies both said it had reached 10,000 dollars MRR, collapsed to zero and been rebuilt back above 10,000 dollars.

Income · MRR · monthly

≥ $10,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2025-09

ShortGen

A 21-year-old developer's website-to-TikTok-slideshow tool, 815 users and $80 MRR

A 21-year-old developer posting as Fr1tz1707 launched a first real SaaS, ShortGen, in 2025: enter a URL, product link or prompt and the AI turns it into a slideshow-style TikTok, later adding clip extraction from YouTube videos; in a July 2025 Hacker News post the developer reported 815 users and $80 MRR, and that free plans activated poorly while card-backed free trials converted far better.

Income · MRR · monthly

$80

Founder's own disclosure · 2025-07

Six Atomic

Singapore apparel-automation software bootstrapped on enterprise projects, 40,000 dollars a month with a team of 22

Taime Koe founded Six Atomic in Singapore in April 2020 to automate made-to-order apparel: Synthesis grades a design to any size and outputs manufacturing files, Inference estimates body measurements from height and weight, and Envision recommends a size and shows the fit. His September 2022 Starter Story page lists 40,000 dollars a month, two founders plus 20 employees, revenue mostly from enterprise client projects, self-funded and bootstrapped on that revenue.

Income · revenue · monthly

$40,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2022-09

Sleek.design

Three friends' chat-to-design tool for mobile apps, 10,000 dollars MRR within a month of launch with no marketing spend

Mattia Pomelli, coding for eight years, built four design tools in a year with two friends; the latest, Sleek, lets app developers without design skills generate full mobile UI by chatting with AI and export to Figma or code. In January 2026 he said it reached 10,000 dollars MRR within a month of launch without a dollar of marketing.

Income · MRR · monthly

$10,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-01

South Shore News

A town select-board member turns 19 towns' meeting videos into AI-written news, 350 paying subscribers two months after a paywall

Justin Evans, a Whitman select-board member with a full-time state job, started South Shore News in 2024 because nobody covered local government: Gemini transcribes town meeting videos from YouTube, Claude writes first drafts and another model edits, published on Substack across 19 towns south of Boston. The Boston Globe reported in June 2026 that two months after an April paywall (8 dollars a month or 80 a year) it had 350 paying and over 3,000 free subscribers, with 25,000 dollars of revenue expected this year against under 2,000 in costs.

Income · revenue · monthly

$2,333–$2,800

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-06

Stanley for X

A Stan co-founder turned a ghostwriter's playbook into an AI and hit $4,000 MRR within 48 hours of launch

Vitalii Dodonov, co-founder and CTO of the creator platform Stan, was paying a ghostwriter thousands a month for his X posts, so he documented the ghostwriter's method in 31 pages and built Stanley, an AI 'head of content' you talk to by text message; an MRR Story case shows a 22 April 2026 launch, $4,000 MRR within 48 hours, driven by his own X following and a #1 Product Hunt finish.

Income · MRR · monthly

$4,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-04

Sunbelife

An AI-written book, DeepSeek from Beginner to Monetisation, drafted in a week and said to have sold over a hundred thousand copies, with no income figure

On 9 September 2025 sspai author Sunbelife wrote in the first person that a friend asked for a beginner's book on DeepSeek and making money with it, 80,000 characters in seven days; the author outlined it, had AI expand sample chapters, found DeepSeek alone insufficient and rotated Grok, GPT and DeepSeek while proofreading by hand, and says the book sold "well over a hundred thousand copies". No royalty, fee or income figure is given, so the case is grade C with no income shown.

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SupaBird

A Berlin indie hacker's AI growth coach for X, over $2,000 MRR after two years of organic-only growth

Farid Shukurov, an Azerbaijan-born former UX designer in Berlin, launched SupaBird in August 2024 to analyse top creators, generate post ideas in the user's voice and suggest posting times on X; in an MRR Story case compiled in May 2026 he said MRR is over $2,000, with 2,057 dollars withdrawn from Stripe in the last 30 days, about 70% from organic and social channels, driven mainly by SEO case studies about other founders.

Income · MRR · monthly

≥ $2,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

Superbot (슈퍼봇, @superbot_origin)

An AI cinematic-video creator with 300 million cumulative views who says offline classes brought in over 700 million won last year

In a Q&A interview published by Korean youth outlet Careet on 10 March 2026, AI cinematic-video creator Superbot (슈퍼봇) said their work has about 300 million cumulative views; income comes from offline formal classes (over 700 million won last year), brand deals, YouTube revenue and e-books; AI tool subscriptions cost 300,000–1,500,000 won a month; the first income came in January 2024, about three months in. Recorded as ≥ ₩700,000,000 a year from classes, grade B; the three other creators in the piece gave only unit prices and are kept as leads.

Income · revenue · annual

≥ ₩700,000,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2025-12

Superpower ChatGPT

An engineer's browser extension shipped within three days of ChatGPT's launch, free for nine months, then 20,000–30,000 dollars MRR

Software engineer Saeed Ezzati shipped Superpower ChatGPT, a two-feature enhancement extension, within two or three days of ChatGPT's launch, with no prior extension experience; in an August 2024 Starter Story interview he said it stayed free for about nine months before charging for new features, now makes about twenty to thirty thousand dollars in MRR, is a one-person operation with no paid ads, and has a sponsor-funded newsletter on the side.

Income · MRR · monthly

$20,000–$30,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2024-08

Swan AI

A three-co-founder, zero-employee "autonomous business" that went from 0 to 200 customers in a year, says it is closing in on seven-figure ARR, and then raised 6 million dollars

Amos Bar-Joseph's Swan sells an "AI GTM engineer" that runs outreach and sales workflows for B2B teams. On Indie Hackers in February 2026 he said the company went from 0 to 200 customers in 2025, was closing in on seven-figure ARR, and had just three full-time people, the co-founders. A 25 February 2026 company press release announced a 6-million-dollar round led by Link Ventures, 200+ customers added in 2025 and a three-person team. Recorded as ≤ $1,000,000 a year at grade B; funding is not revenue.

Income · revenue · annual

≤ $1,000,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-02

TheFluxTrain

An Indian robotics engineer's solo platform for training your own image models, 112 paying users and over 1,900 dollars a month after two months

Saquib, a former research engineer in the UK, built TheFluxTrain after the Flux model was released so users can train their own image models for virtual influencers, cartoon characters and brand styles; in a November 2024 Indieniche newsletter interview he said that two months after launch it had 80–90 signups a day, 8–10% conversion, 112 paying users and over 1,900 dollars last month versus 300 in the first, with the first customers from a Reddit post. By 2026 the site had grown into an AI film studio on credit subscriptions.

Income · revenue · monthly

≥ $1,900

Media report or relayed statement · 2024-10

Topliner

An AI executive-search product tested and distributed through a co-founder's agency, reporting five figures a month

Arsen Ibragimov's Topliner is an AI product for executive search. The header of a February 2026 Indie Hackers case study says 10,000 dollars a month, and the ungated opening explains the product was honed inside a co-founder's recruiting agency and distributed to its clients, with Topliner "bringing in five figures per month". Recorded as ≥ $10,000 MRR at grade B; the gated body was not read and no official site was found.

Income · MRR · monthly

≥ $10,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-02

Trimbox

A two-founder inbox cleaner that used AI to port code, run support and model valuations, sold at the end of 2025 for over 4 million dollars at 232,000 dollars MRR

Trimbox, by Jordan Gaston (Austin) and David Emelianov (Bay Area), began as a Chrome extension for one-click unsubscribing and Gmail cleanup and later shipped iOS and Android apps. A May 2026 Business Insider piece (syndicated on Yahoo, by Agnes Applegate) says monthly recurring revenue was 232,000 dollars when they began considering a sale in 2025, and that it sold at the end of 2025 for "over 4 million dollars" to an unnamed buyer; AI was used to convert React to React Native, for design, a support bot and valuation simulations. Recorded as $232,000 MRR and a $4,000,000 floor exit, grade B.

Income · MRR · monthly

$232,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

Truein

After selling his first company, a Pune founder built face-recognition attendance SaaS to $40,000 MRR and 20 staff in four years

After selling a ride-sharing company to an automaker, Ankit Tanna founded Truein in Pune in April 2017 to replace unreliable fingerprint attendance with face recognition for contract workers and distributed sites in industries such as construction, priced per user; in a November 2021 Starter Story interview he said MRR was $40,000 with 20 employees, early customers came from his network and cold calling, and Google Ads returned about two dollars per dollar. In 2026 the site claims 500+ customers and 500,000+ users.

Income · MRR · monthly

$40,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2021-11

Vidon.ai

A London team's blog-post-to-video tool, $6,000 MRR in five months, mostly from a handful of content-marketing agencies

Alex Robinson started Vidon.ai in London in May 2022: a document-style editor that reads a blog post aloud, animates its sections and adds images to produce a video. In an October 2022 Starter Story interview he said it reached $6,000 MRR in five months, most of it from about half a dozen content-marketing agencies on big contracts, with no investment, profitable from day one, and a team of one founder plus three.

Income · MRR · monthly

$6,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2022-10

VisualizeAI

A Bubble-and-Replicate AI design renderer sold for 30,000 dollars three months after launch with 1,500 dollars of revenue

In November 2023 Vatsal Sanghvi wrote on Indie Hackers that VisualizeAI, the AI design-rendering tool the team built, was acquired for 30,000 dollars in July that year when it was three months old, having made 1,500 dollars in total; the stack was Bubble, Stripe, Crisp, Replicate and Loops, and the channels Product Hunt, AI directories, Reddit and Twitter. Recorded as $1,500 total and a $30,000 exit, grade B. In October 2026 visualizeai.pro is still live selling credit packs; the current owner is not named.

Income · revenue · to date

$1,500

Founder's own disclosure · 2023-07

Visualizee.ai

A Polish developer's side-project AI renderer for architects, stuck near 150 dollars a month for two years, then 8,600 dollars MRR six months after a chat-based rebuild

Piotr Obidowski started Visualizee.ai, an AI rendering tool for architects and interior designers, about three years ago and sat near 150 dollars a month in one-off sales for two years; in a May 2026 Indie Hackers post Obidowski said that after rebuilding it around a chat assistant called Vizzy and switching to subscriptions, it reached 8,600 dollars MRR in six months, still solo around a full-time job.

Income · MRR · monthly

$8,600

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-05

Wang Zhongyang

A Hangzhou tech director's AI customer-service outsourcing, quoting 120,000 yuan at a claimed 75%+ margin, three deals for just over 500,000

Juejin author Wang Zhongyang (tech director at a Hangzhou company) wrote in October 2026 that for an enterprise AI customer-service system others quoted 250,000 yuan for four people over two months while Wang quoted 120,000 with 20–30 thousand in cash costs, using "AI employees" for requirements, code generation and testing; three enterprise projects were delivered within three months for just over 500,000 yuan. The author also runs a paid AI job-coaching programme that is recruiting, so the post has a marketing motive.

Income · revenue · to date

≥ ¥500,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-10

Wave AI

A former Uber New York GM's solo, vibe-coded AI note taker at about 7 million dollars a year

After Uber, Josh Mohrer taught himself to code and from late 2022 used ChatGPT as a pair programmer to build Wave, an iOS app that transcribes and summarises recordings and phone calls; in a February 2026 Mixergy interview he said it runs at about 7 million dollars a year, flat for a few months, keeps roughly half after Apple and Google's cut and about a third for himself, gets 800–1,000 installs a day, and that he is the whole team.

Income · revenue · annual

$7,000,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-02

Yang Ping (Yapie)

A Chengdu programmer's DeepSeek-written, AI-composed song “Seven-Day Lover” sold its copyright for five figures; his one-person company made just over 200,000 yuan in nine months

Yang Ping, a 28-year-old programmer trained in information security at UESTC, used DeepSeek to write lyrics in Jay Chou's style and Make Best Music to compose, producing “Seven-Day Lover” (《七天爱人》) in a few hours in February 2025; it passed 2 million plays on NetEase Cloud Music, charted, and its copyright sold for a five-figure sum. A musician reported him for 'unfair competition' over his DeepSeek songwriting tutorials. In March 2026 media reported his one-person company had made just over 200,000 yuan in nine months from tech monetisation and content.

Income · revenue · to date

≥ ¥200,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-03

Zipchat

After an 8-million-dollar ARR business died overnight, a Bulgarian founder's AI sales agent for e-commerce nears 2 million dollars ARR

Ruslan Leteyski's Shopify checkout product once reached 8 million dollars ARR and vanished overnight when Shopify locked down checkout; in 2024 he co-founded Zipchat, an AI sales agent for e-commerce stores, in Sofia, and in August 2026 said it handles 700,000 conversations a month and is about to cross 2 million dollars ARR.

Income · revenue · annual

≤ $2,000,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-08

AutoShorts.ai

An ex-Instagram employee's AI faceless-video tool at $31,000 MRR about three and a half months after launch

Eric Smith's AutoShorts.ai writes scripts, adds AI voice-overs and visuals, and generates and schedules faceless short videos for users; per Indie Hackers' summary of his public updates, it launched in late January 2024 and hit $31,000 MRR on 9 May, growing through Facebook/Instagram ads and affiliates.

Income · MRR · monthly

$31,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2024-05

Casey Botticello

An AI-drafted, human-edited tech blog earning about $21,700 a month from ads some 11 months in

Blogging-guide author Casey Botticello started an unnamed tech site in early 2023, wrote the first 29 posts by hand, then drafted 700-plus with Koala AI and edited each for about an hour, earning from Mediavine display ads; on the Niche Pursuits podcast he said the previous month (about November 2023) brought in about $21,700.

Income · revenue · monthly

$21,700

Media report or relayed statement · 2023-11

Cluely (formerly Interview Coder)

An AI interview-assist tool whose founder admitted lying about revenue

Roy Lee built an AI tool that feeds answers during technical interviews while at university, later renamed it Cluely and raised a 15-million-dollar Series A led by a16z; in March 2026 he admitted on X that the annual revenue figure he gave TechCrunch in summer 2025 was false. The Stripe screenshots he posted afterwards are unverified, so the case is a lead only.

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DimeADozen

An AI business-idea report tool two friends built in four days for $185, sold for $150,000 after making over $66,000 in about seven months

Long-time startup CTO Sal Aiello and product designer Monica Powers chained hundreds of pre-written ChatGPT prompts into a tool that turns a business idea into a roughly 50-page research report for 39 dollars; CNBC, after reviewing documents, reported over $66,000 in about seven months and a sale for $150,000 around September 2023.

Income · revenue · to date

≥ $66,000

Derived from public counts × public price · 2023-10

Echo Janitorial

A Canadian cleaning-company owner runs calls and email with AI, with 2025 sales just under 1 million dollars

Rick Chorney, 29, runs a commercial cleaning company in British Columbia, Canada, using ChatGPT, Claude, an AI receptionist and automated intake forms for day-to-day operations; Fortune, after reviewing company records, reported 2025 sales of just under 1 million dollars.

Income · revenue · annual

≤ $1,000,000

Derived from public counts × public price · 2025-12

Jenni AI

An academic writing assistant stuck at 2,000 dollars a month for three years, then 5 million dollars ARR via short video and creators

David Park and Henry Mao's academic writing assistant Jenni AI sat at about 2,000 dollars a month for years, then broke out through a viral tweet, a TikTok account network and creator deals; BaiJing compiled the founders' public posts at USD 5 million ARR in 2024 (figures vary by source).

Income · revenue · annual

$5,000,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2024-11

No-code AI landing-page audit tool

497 customers, 1,000 dollars a year

An AI project listed on Microns: gives personalised conversion-rate recommendations for landing pages, built on Bubble with OpenAI. The marketplace shows revenue of $1,000 a year.

Income · revenue · annual

$1,000

Marketplace seller disclosure (vetted by the marketplace) · 2024-03

Florian Vates

A German developer's AI expense tracker MonAi, $40,000–$60,000 a month across his apps

German iOS developer Florian Vates built the AI expense tracker MonAi on the side in 2023, grew it with a content-creator partnership and went full time in 2026; he says his four apps make $40,000–$60,000 a month, about 90% from MonAi.

Income · revenue · monthly

$40,000–$60,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

Mr Zhang

A solo developer making bullet-comment games with AI, six titles in a year and 0.8–1 million yuan take-home

Game developer Mr Zhang quit his job in March 2025 and, using Doubao, AI 3D-modelling tools and AI-written code, makes a bullet-comment game alone in about 15 days, six in a year; he told Tech Planet that total turnover was close to 20 million yuan, that the platform and streamers take most of it and the developer keeps about 8%, and that his own take-home was about 0.8–1 million yuan.

Income · revenue · annual

¥800,000–¥1,000,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

Brandon Thomas

Open-source Adobe look-alikes built with Claude, used to draw people to a paid AI studio

In late September 2026, ArtCraft's Brandon Thomas released open-source apps modelled on Photoshop, Premiere and other Adobe software, built with Claude Opus 5.5 in Rust; PhotoCraft alone drew about 68,000 GitHub stars. The apps are free; the company earns from credit subscriptions to its ArtCraft AI image and video studio, but revenue is not public.

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AudioPen

A voice-to-text writing tool built in 12 hours on Bubble, 15,000 dollars a month solo

Louis Pereira built AudioPen in a 12-hour build event with Figma and Bubble, turning rambling speech into clean text; in his May 2024 Starter Story account he says it makes about USD 15,000 a month, run solo and profitable from day one.

Income · revenue · monthly

$15,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2024-05

Chen Yunfei

Built the “Kitten Fill Light” app in an hour and hit the iOS charts, but most of his near-million-yuan year came from corporate AI consulting

Chen Yunfei, who left a big tech firm and says he cannot code, built nine products in a year with AI coding tools; “Kitten Fill Light” passed 100,000 downloads and its Pro version topped the paid chart. 36Kr reports he made nearly a million yuan in a year with AI, but mostly from corporate AI consulting, not the apps.

Income · revenue · annual

≤ ¥1,000,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2024-12

fly.pieter.com

A browser flight game written with AI in 30 minutes, 87,000 dollars MRR in 17 days, zero a year later

Pieter Levels made a free browser multiplayer flight game with AI coding tools, earning from in-game ad slots and a paid jet; he posted about USD 87,000 MRR some 17 days in (about 1 million a year), but by mid-2026 his X bio listed the project at zero dollars a month.

Income · MRR · monthly

$87,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2025-03

HeadshotPro

Danny Postma's AI headshot business, widely said to make 300,000 dollars a month, with no verifiable figure from him

Dutch indie developer Danny Postma built AI headshot service HeadshotPro on open-source and custom models, widely reported as a “one-person 300,000-dollar-a-month” business; but every source we could open is either a third-party estimate or an interview with no revenue figure, so it is kept as a lead.

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idoubi

A former Tencent developer built 11 AI products in a year; ThinkAny hit 600,000 monthly visits, but his main income is a paid community

After leaving Tencent, idoubi built 11 products in a year, including AI search ThinkAny and AI podcast PodLM; ThinkAny reached 600,000 monthly visits in three months. In a Founder Park interview he said his main income is actually a paid community and his goal is 10,000 dollars a month; with no public figure, it is kept as a lead.

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Interior AI

Pieter Levels' AI interior-design renderer, about 35,000 dollars a month by mid-2026

Interior AI, another of Pieter Levels' AI projects, turns a photo of a room into redesigns in different styles; per a report summarising his X bio, it made about USD 35,000 a month by mid-2026.

Income · revenue · monthly

$35,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-06

AI book-summary app

Peaked at 600 dollars a month, down to 35 after the team stopped working on it

An AI project listed on Microns: a web and iOS app that summarises any book with AI and lets users ask ChatGPT custom questions about it. The marketplace shows revenue of $1,114 a year.

Income · revenue · annual

$1,114

Marketplace seller disclosure (vetted by the marketplace) · 2026-05

A multi-agent kit that turns Claude Code into an engineering team

105 subscriptions in 7 weeks

An AI project listed on Microns: a developer tool for solo founders: one command runs a team of specialist AI agents from idea through architecture, test-first build, code review and deployment, pausing for approval at each step. The marketplace shows MRR of $343 a month.

Income · MRR · monthly

$343

Marketplace seller disclosure (vetted by the marketplace) · 2026-10

AI LinkedIn outreach extension

3,300 dollars a year at a 77% margin

An AI project listed on Microns: a Chrome extension that automates LinkedIn connection requests, follow-ups and engagement, with AI-drafted personalised messages and profile summaries. The marketplace shows revenue of $3,300 a year.

Income · revenue · annual

$3,300

Marketplace seller disclosure (vetted by the marketplace) · 2026-10

AI writing assistant

527 users and 2,250 dollars a year, from a seller running 35+ apps

An AI project listed on Microns: an AI writing platform built on GPT-4 for startups and small-business owners. The marketplace shows revenue of $2,250 a year.

Income · revenue · annual

$2,250

Marketplace seller disclosure (vetted by the marketplace) · 2026-10

An AI tool that roasts YouTube thumbnails

About a thousand dollars a month, sold for USD 3,000

An AI project sold on Microns: uses AI to score, roast and rewrite YouTube thumbnails and titles, audit channels, A/B-test thumbnails and generate shareable roast cards. The marketplace shows MRR of $942–$1,270 a month.

Income · MRR · monthly

$942–$1,270

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-07

AI old-photo restoration iOS app

About two thousand dollars in its first year, sold for USD 2,000

An AI project sold on Microns: an iPhone app that restores, enhances and colourises old photos with AI. The marketplace shows MRR of $151 a month.

Income · MRR · monthly

$151

Marketplace seller disclosure (vetted by the marketplace) · 2026-08

Hosted screenshot-to-code

The paid version of a popular open-source tool, listed at USD 38,000

An AI project listed on Microns: turns a screenshot, design mockup or URL into working HTML/Tailwind, React or Vue code with AI. The marketplace shows MRR of $4,200–$5,300 a month.

Income · MRR · monthly

$4,200–$5,300

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-09

Kenyan developer Enoq Moka built AI site builder WeBuilda in two months and sold it for USD 7,200 in 21 days

An AI project sold on Microns: WeBuilda (webuilda.com) is an AI-driven no-code website builder with templates and a drag-and-drop editor. The marketplace shows revenue of $4,040 a year.

Income · revenue · annual

$4,040

Media report or relayed statement · 2024-09

PDF.ai

A 10,000-dollar domain, 25,000 dollars MRR four months after launch

Testimonial.to co-founder Damon Chen paid about 10,000 dollars for the PDF.ai domain and built a chat-with-your-PDF tool; an October 2023 breakdown puts it at about USD 25,000 MRR in its fourth month with 1,250+ paying users, over half its organic traffic from “PDF AI” keywords.

Income · MRR · monthly

$25,070

Media report or relayed statement · 2023-09

Peng Qingyun

A brand designer laid off because of AI, now running a one-person company in Hangzhou making AI dramas for overseas, tens of thousands of yuan a month

Born in 1991, Peng Qingyun lost his job in 2023 when his department was cut because of AI, learned AI video through the WaytoAGI community, and co-created the award-winning AI drama “War of the Gods”; he set up a one-person company in Hangzhou's Shangcheng district in January 2026 and, per City Express, earns tens of thousands of yuan a month with a partner, mainly producing AI dramas for overseas platforms.

Income · revenue · monthly

≥ ¥10,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-08

Photo AI

Pieter Levels' solo AI photo app, peaking at 150,000 dollars a month, about 100,000 by mid-2026

Pieter Levels, known for working solo without investors, built AI photo service Photo AI on fine-tuned Stable Diffusion; he posted a record USD 150,000 month in September 2025, and his X bio showed 100,000 a month by mid-2026.

Income · revenue · monthly

$100,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-06

Polsia

A one-person, zero-employee “AI runs your company” platform, a self-claimed 10 million dollar run rate, while about one in ten companies on it has earned a dollar

Ben Cera (written Ben Broca in some reports) runs Polsia alone: AI agents write users' code, run their ads, answer support and post their tweets. He claims a USD 10 million run rate (last 30 days × 12) and raised USD 30 million at a 250 million valuation in May 2026, yet says only about 10% of companies on the platform have earned at least a dollar.

Income · revenue · annual

$10,000,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-05

SiteGPT

Support chatbots trained on a site's content, past 10,000 dollars MRR within a month

Bhanu Teja launched SiteGPT in March 2023, using OpenAI and Pinecone to turn a site's content into a support chatbot; he told Starter Story it passed USD 10,000 MRR within a month and was at about 15,000 six months later, after losing nearly half its customers after month one.

Income · MRR · monthly

$15,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2023-10

AI Tansuojia

Paid AI column “365 Practical ChatGPT Use Cases” on Xiaobaotong, 565 readers (price not public)

AI Tansuojia sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 565 readers shown on the column page; the price is not public, so no income is estimated.

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Alchian Huasheng

Paid AI column “ChatGPT Mastery Guide” on Xiaobaotong, 683 readers

Alchian Huasheng sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 683 readers shown on the column page; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at at most ¥204,217 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

≤ ¥204,217

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

Daquan

Paid AI column “AI from Basics to Income (DeepSeek)” on Xiaobaotong, 10,322 readers

Daquan sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 10,322 readers shown on the column page; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at at most ¥205,408 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

≤ ¥205,408

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

Fanfan

2 paid AI columns on Xiaobaotong, 9,885 readers in total

Fanfan sells paid AI columns on Xiaobaotong with 9,885 readers shown on the column pages; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at at most ¥289,012 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

≤ ¥289,012

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

Feng Xiong

Paid AI column “AI Coding for Complete Beginners” on Xiaobaotong, 3,662 readers

Feng Xiong sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 3,662 readers shown on the column page; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at ¥60,789–¥105,466 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

¥60,789–¥105,466

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

findyi

3 paid AI columns on Xiaobaotong, 12,154 readers in total

findyi sells paid AI columns on Xiaobaotong with 12,154 readers shown on the column pages; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at ¥237,109–¥557,829 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

¥237,109–¥557,829

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

IDO Lao Xu

Paid AI column “Earning Small Sums with AI Models at Zero Cost” on Xiaobaotong, 3,572 readers (price not public)

IDO Lao Xu sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 3,572 readers shown on the column page; the price is not public, so no income is estimated.

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Jingshui Liushen

Paid AI column “Earning Overseas with AI” on Xiaobaotong, 16,526 readers

Jingshui Liushen sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 16,526 readers shown on the column page; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at at most ¥165,260 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

≤ ¥165,260

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

Junjun Radio

Paid AI column “AI Writing: A Guide to Quality Content and Income” on Xiaobaotong, 507 readers

Junjun Radio sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 507 readers shown on the column page; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at at most ¥100,893 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

≤ ¥100,893

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

Karl

Paid AI column “Viral Xiaohongshu Posts with AI” on Xiaobaotong, 2,243 readers

Karl sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 2,243 readers shown on the column page; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at at most ¥64,598 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

≤ ¥64,598

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

Liu Fei

Paid AI column “Advanced Midjourney Idea Library 2023” on Xiaobaotong, 2,242 readers (price not public)

Liu Fei sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 2,242 readers shown on the column page; the price is not public, so no income is estimated.

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op7418 (Guizang)

Paid AI column “Guizang's AIGC Weekly” on Xiaobaotong, 1,424 readers (price not public)

op7418 (Guizang) sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 1,424 readers shown on the column page; the price is not public, so no income is estimated.

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Pao Ye

Paid AI column “AI + WeChat Image Posts, from Zero to a Million” on Xiaobaotong, 9,646 readers

Pao Ye sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 9,646 readers shown on the column page; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at at most ¥191,955 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

≤ ¥191,955

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

Teacher Pite

Paid AI column “AI WeChat Official Accounts from Basics to Income” on Xiaobaotong, 1,478 readers (price not public)

Teacher Pite sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 1,478 readers shown on the column page; the price is not public, so no income is estimated.

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R

Paid AI column “Mastering ChatGPT” on Xiaobaotong, 1,152 readers

R sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 1,152 readers shown on the column page; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at ¥114,048–¥229,248 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

¥114,048–¥229,248

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

Sitin Peng Tao

Paid AI column “ChatGPT in 5 Minutes” on Xiaobaotong, 1,491 readers

Sitin Peng Tao sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 1,491 readers shown on the column page; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at ¥147,609–¥356,349 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

¥147,609–¥356,349

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

Wang Kai

Paid AI column “Business Teardowns of AI Projects” on Xiaobaotong, 4,699 readers (price not public)

Wang Kai sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 4,699 readers shown on the column page; the price is not public, so no income is estimated.

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Xiaoqijie

2 paid AI columns on Xiaobaotong, 5,321 readers in total

Xiaoqijie sells paid AI columns on Xiaobaotong with 5,321 readers shown on the column pages; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at at most ¥445,401 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

≤ ¥445,401

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

Yihui

Paid AI column “50 AI Side Gigs Anyone Can Do, Broken Down” on Xiaobaotong, 773 readers

Yihui sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 773 readers shown on the column page; readers × the price in the author's intro puts cumulative sales at ¥153,827–¥231,127 before discounts, refunds and fees.

Income · revenue · to date

¥153,827–¥231,127

Derived from public counts × public price · 2026-10

Yuan Liuwei

Paid AI column “AI Money-Making Prompts” on Xiaobaotong, 3,259 readers (price not public)

Yuan Liuwei sells a paid AI column on Xiaobaotong with 3,259 readers shown on the column page; the price is not public, so no income is estimated.

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Zhao Chunxiang

Three AI apps built alone, including the food diary Bellybook (胃之书), no ad spend, 12,000 dollars in five months

Former big-tech product manager Zhao Chunxiang codes and runs everything alone across three apps, including the AI food diary Bellybook (胃之书) and a stranger-alarm app, charging from day one with no ad spend; 36Kr reports about 90,000 users and USD 12,000 in revenue in five months.

Income · revenue · to date

$12,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2024-12

AEO Engine

Getting brands cited by ChatGPT and AI Overviews, 700,000 dollars ARR in six months

An agency for answer-engine optimisation that serves brands with 50+ AI agents plus an outreach team; a January 2026 press release claims USD 700,000 ARR within six months and 50+ brands under management.

Income · revenue · annual

$700,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-01

BasedLabs

Two founders built an AI video site in three days and hit 10,000 dollars MRR in under three months

Andrew Adams and a co-founder built an AI video site in three days on an open-source image-to-video model and Replicate's GPUs; he told Starter Story it hit USD 10,000 MRR in under three months with 150,000 sign-ups and under 500 dollars of marketing.

Income · MRR · monthly

$10,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2024-04

Chatbase

A solo project started in a final university semester, past 10 million dollars ARR in three years

Yasser Elsaid built an “upload a PDF, get a custom ChatGPT” tool on OpenAI models in late 2022, prototype in two weeks, no funding or co-founder; per Supabase's May 2026 customer story, Chatbase is past USD 10 million ARR.

Income · revenue · annual

≥ $10,000,000

Media report or relayed statement · 2026-05

Class Pet Garden

A sole trader's AI-coded classroom points-and-pets tool, said in an interview to have taken 400,000 yuan in 30 days

Class Pet Garden, run by a sole trader in Zhaoyang, Yunnan (web + WeChat mini-app + Android), lets primary-school teachers reward pupils with points that feed virtual pets; 9.9 yuan per class or 29.9 yuan a year for everything. In a YouTube interview the developer says they only finished primary school, built it with AI coding tools, and took 400,000 yuan in 30 days on a few thousand yuan of server and AI costs. The figure is self-reported; a third party says the video shows back-office data, which this site could not verify.

Income · revenue · monthly

¥400,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-07

GojiberryAI

Validated with a done-for-you service first, 2.5 million dollars ARR in 10 months

Three French founders built an AI prospecting platform for B2B teams after validating demand as a service; their YC profile cites USD 2.5 million ARR in 10 months, profitable, with 2,000+ customers.

Income · revenue · annual

$2,500,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-10

Open Exam Prep

A solo, AI-built free exam-prep site with 23,000+ exam pages

Tax and financial adviser Ran Chen used AI coding tools to mass-produce exam pages and practice questions, monetised with display ads on English search traffic, and ten months after launch the founder's own public dashboard lists the site in the ≥ 10,000-dollars-a-month tier.

Income · revenue · monthly

≥ $10,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-10

Postiz

Open-source social scheduler, founder reports 186,000 dollars MRR

Nevo David's open-source social scheduler Postiz leans on letting AI agents such as ChatGPT and Claude call it directly; his September 2026 post reports about USD 186,000 MRR and 2.2 million ARR, with acquisition almost entirely from steady posting on X and short-video platforms.

Income · MRR · monthly

$186,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-09

Seena Rez

Pilates grip socks picked with YouTube transcripts + ChatGPT, a self-claimed 2.7-million-dollar brand

E-commerce educator Seena Rez says in a July 2025 video that he fed transcripts of lifestyle YouTube videos to ChatGPT to find recurring products, picked Pilates grip socks, built a brand called Grounded and sold 2.7 million dollars' worth through short videos and retargeting ads. The figure rests on his own account alone, with no checkable store or back-office page, so it is kept as a lead.

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John Rush's AI tool portfolio

20 tools at 3.5 million dollars ARR, SEObot alone at 120,000 a month

Serial founder John Rush told Latka in May 2025 that his 20 AI tools under MarsX make USD 3.5 million ARR combined, with the autonomous SEO-writing agent SEObot alone at USD 120,000 MRR.

Income · MRR · monthly

$120,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2025-05

TypingMind

A Vietnamese indie developer's “better ChatGPT UI”, 1 million dollars in a year within 20 months

Tony Dinh launched TypingMind in March 2023, a bring-your-own-API-key alternative ChatGPT interface first sold as a one-time license; his November 2024 newsletter reported USD 1 million in revenue over the trailing 12 months.

Income · revenue · annual

$1,000,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2024-11

V2EX user vvenvw

An AI-coded outsourcing job, a multi-store Weidian order system for 50,000 yuan

In a June 2026 V2EX thread asking whether AI projects actually make money, user vvenvw said they built a multi-store Weidian order-management system as an outsourcing job for 50,000 yuan and is considering turning it into SaaS.

Income · revenue · to date

¥50,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-06

V2EX user yuewolf

Three small AI-coded jobs for about 11,000 yuan, while yuewolf's own OCR SaaS sold one subscription and refunded it

In the same V2EX thread, yuewolf listed income from AI-built work: a B2B English company site, a custom CRM and a WeChat group-messaging tool for about 11,000 yuan combined, while yuewolf's own OCR SaaS sold one 49.99-dollar subscription and, after a payment bug and refund, netted about 37 dollars.

Income · revenue · to date

¥11,000

Founder's own disclosure · 2026-06