Founder stories
How AI founders hit their revenue milestones — the playbooks behind the numbers.
How Codédex hit $85k MRR making coding feel like Pokémon
Sonny Li went from failing CS student to teaching at Columbia — then quit to build the learn-to-code platform he wished
$85k
How Kleo hit $1M after LinkedIn killed its extension
Kleo grew to 70,000 users as a free Chrome extension. Then LinkedIn told the founders to kill it — in a single day. They
$1M
How Neural Frames hit $5M/yr on AI music videos
Physicist Nicolai Klemke bootstrapped Neural Frames from a Reddit side project to a $5M annualized run rate selling AI m
$5M/yr
How Photo AI hit $161K/mo: one founder, zero employees
Pieter Levels turned a Stable Diffusion experiment on his own face into a $161K/month AI photography business — solo, wi
$161K/mo
How Postiz hit $184K MRR: the dropout who open-sourced past SEO
Nevo David burned $12,000 on SEO that went nowhere, then open-sourced Postiz on a Monday — and watched Reddit, GitHub st
$184k MRR
How Rezi hit $261K MRR: the ATS whisperer who beat GPT to market
Jacob Jacquet turned his own resume-writing hack into a $3M+ ARR business — building in Seoul cafes between English clas
$261k MRR
How Gil Hildebrand bootstrapped to $62k/mo solo
Gil Hildebrand spent 25 years as an engineer, including as CTO of Seth Godin's Squidoo. Then he walked away from a funde
$62k+
How Supliful hit $179K MRR: the ex-VC who productized supplements
Martins Lasmanis invested in 80+ startups as a VC, bootstrapped a map-poster brand to $1.5M, sold it — then learned the
$179k MRR
How Matt Par turned YouTube fame into $78k MRR software
Matt Par spent a decade teaching faceless YouTube automation to millions. Vid.AI is the software version of everything h
$78k
How Zigpoll hit $142K MRR as a one-person SaaS
Jason Zigelbaum runs Zigpoll — $142K MRR of Shopify survey software — entirely solo, with AI coding agents as his team a
$142K