Success stories

Fastest to revenue

Stated monthly revenue divided by the stated months to reach it. Self-reported unless the source is TrustMRR.

• Lovable AI app builder: $83K a month after 0.25 months

  Lovable went to 1 million ARR in a week from launch and is now valued at 6 billion.

  YouTube, self-reported Starter Story

• Autonomous AI platform that builds and operates companies (Pulsia): $833K a month after 5 months

  let me tell the story of how we went from zero to 10 million run rate in less than 5 months

  YouTube, self-reported Ben Cera

• Stella, a manifesting app with custom visualizations and daily affirmations: $300K a month after 2 months

  I built Stella, a manifesting app, which crossed over $300,000 in MRR in 2 months.

  YouTube, self-reported Starter Story

• Base44: $83K a month after 0.7 months

  it took 3 weeks to go from $0 to $1M ARR

  X, self-reported @MaorShlomo

• AI app builder with built-in backend from natural language: $83K a month after 0.75 months

  Uh, it took you three weeks to hit a million dollars ARR.

  YouTube, self-reported Lenny's Podcast

• Crayo AI short video generator for faceless creators: $300K a month after 6 months

  crayo hasn't even been around for 6 months and they're already generating over $300,000 in monthly recurring Revenue

  YouTube, self-reported Brett Malinowski

• Content Rewards, app paying clippers per 1,000 views: $100K a month after 2 months

  We built a $100,000 per month SAS app in 60 days with one marketing strategy.

  YouTube, self-reported Brett Malinowski

• Base 44 AI app builder: $250K a month after 6 months

  Base 44 hit 3 million ARR in 6 months.

  YouTube, self-reported Starter Story

• Daytona: $83K a month after 2 months

  $0 → $1M ARR in 2 months.

  X, self-reported @daytonaio

• Fastlane: $83K a month after 2 months

  We went from $0 to $1m ARR in two months, and it almost never happened.

  X, self-reported @gauravsbuilding

• Fastlane: $83K a month after 2 months

  We went from $0 to $1m ARR in 2 months

  X, self-reported @gauravsbuilding

• not named (YC company): $500K a month after 12 months

  We are now at over $6M ARR. 12 months ago, $1M ARR felt far away.

  X, self-reported @chrispisarski

• HeyReach: $1.4M a month after 36 months

  How we bootstrapped HeyReach to $17M+ ARR in 3 years:

  X, self-reported @nikolak47

• HeyReach (B2B SaaS): $1.4M a month after 36 months

  We took @heyreach_io from one customer paying $139/mo to $17M ARR in a little over 3 years, fully bootstrapped.

  X, self-reported @nikolak47

• Bootstrapped company (popups/marketing product): $542K a month after 14 months

  We scaled to $6.5M through word of mouth. ... In the past 14 months, we went from less than $100K ARR to $6.5M ARR without raising a single dollar.

  X, self-reported @iamshaanarora

• second SaaS (RobHoffman): $61K a month after 1.7 months

  we launched a second SaaS and hit $61k MRR in 53 days

  X, self-reported @RobHoffman_

• Social media scheduling tool (Postiz) that AI agents can use to schedule posts: $143K a month after 4 months

  and then in 4 months it skyrocketed to 143K growing by around 1K MR every day

  YouTube, self-reported Starter Story

• AI research, writing, and edtech tools (Jenny AI): $833K a month after 24 months

  collectively we do over 10 million a year we're profitable and we have over 5 million users

  YouTube, self-reported Starter Story

• second bootstrapped SaaS: $61K a month after 1.8 months

  that one hit $61K MRR in 53 days

  X, self-reported @RobHoffman_

• Trendtrack_io: $100K a month after 3 months

  $100K MRR in just a few months. Bootstrapped. @Trendtrack_io just hit 6 figures/month.

  X, self-reported @vincent_alonzi

• SaaS for finding trending products and opportunities: $750K a month after 24 months

  And Minia actually peaked at 750K MMR within 2 years.

  YouTube, self-reported Starter Story

• Pop-up tool for e-commerce brands: $333K a month after 12 months

  And last year, we went from $0 in revenue to 4 million ARR once we figured out our position.

  YouTube, self-reported Starter Story

• Rork: $83K a month after 3 months

  $1M ARR in 3 months after launch

  X, self-reported @daniel_dhawan

• agency: $417K a month after 15 months

  As an agency owner who's agency has grown from $1M ARR -> $5M ARR in the last 15 months

  X, self-reported @mattepstein

• Gojiberry AI: $292K a month after 11 months

  Gojiberry AI just hit $3.5M ARR. 11 months ago we were at $0.

  X, self-reported @pierreeliottlal

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