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read a guide saying 18-36 months to $10k MRR solo is the realistic band and honestly it tracks. the part nobody posts: the first 6-12 months of tweets about it convert to like 3 users and 200 likes from other founders doing the same

That feeling when launching a new product 🫰
@farmspotai

Let's see if I can scale this new project to 100k$ MRR
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I make ~$12K/month as a backend developer.

My SaaS makes $39 MRR.

Would you still work 12-14 hours days and sacrifice your free time to build a SaaS in my position?

Or would you just enjoy life?

I just chatted with a 19-year-old who built an AI app that makes $10K/month, and he’d never written code before.

His name is Vadim. At 17 he was working at a marketing startup while still in high school. At 18 he quit to build a web app with zero coding experience. In his words: “burning all the bridges.”

The app is Vugola, an AI video editing agent that turns long-form content into viral clips for clippers, creators, agencies and brands.

He got the idea in October, spent 4 months prompting Lovable, then moved to Claude and now Codex.

Today he’s at $11,200 MRR with about 400 paying users.

His first $2-3K MRR came entirely from X, where he tied Vugola into AI trends that were already going viral.

The jump to $10K+ came from a routine that takes him 45 minutes a day:

> Start a brand-new Instagram account and connect ManyChat ($15/month)
> Spend a full day doom scrolling your competitors’ viral UGC formats
> Copy the format exactly: hook length, audio, transitions, demo, CTA
> Post 3–6 times every single day
> Only swap the sound. Keep the same demo and CTA
> Run one format until it’s saturated, then move to the next trend

Result: 10.8K followers on a brand-new account and one video at 132K views. The only thing he pays for is the $15 ManyChat subscription.

His #1 lesson: “Simplify everything you’re doing… as a solo founder in the age of AI, your biggest asset is your time.”

26 years old.

$1.2k MRR, 80+ hours a week, no major growth.

Most of my money now comes from being an "influencer", but I want to build products!

Meanwhile 20-year-olds are making millions.

Am I already too late?

We grew maxfusion to $1,000,000 ARR not by chance

The start was the hardest

Arcads was still prominent in the landscape

We had to find a way to diffrentiate

Our team was deep into audio guided model setups

So we launched RIZZ - our own talking head audio guided model

That was the first step

Finally an answer to the annoying question

What's the difference between you and...

Sales started happening

Follow me for the post series about the journey

it took us:

- around 10 dead startups before this one worked
- 5 brutal months stuck at $8K MRR
- 597 sales calls to figure out who we were for
- 10 investors telling us no
- 2 rejection emails from YC
- 6 months from niching down to $1M ARR
- 882 days from launch to $10M ARR

today @heyreach_io is at $19M ARR. fully bootstrapped.

people see the $19M and scroll right past the 882 days.

My current monthly revenue:

BangerKit: $39 MRR
𝕏 monetization: ~$1,000/month

What’s your current MRR?

AI Companions are an underrated niche:

Multiple apps printing $100k+ mrr by only wrapping ChatGPT API

(screenshot is from appkittie.com)

$100k app idea:

Replicate this $400k MRR bible app but for Muslims = Quran Widgets

Use Claude + Funnelfox MCP to replicate its onboarding as a web funnel and avoid Apple’s 30% cut

Thank me later

Just a small reminder

If your app makes $1,000/month, you’re already ahead of most people who ever tried

At $5,000/month you can live almost anywhere in Europe and work on your own terms

At $10,000/month you’re in the top 16% of US earners, and you make about 4x the average EU take-home pay (6x in Poland)

Most of the MRR screenshots you see on here are peak days, not normal months

And my rule: if someone sells a course about making money online, cut their numbers in half

Stop comparing yourself to the timeline. If your app made its first $100 this month, you’re doing finefine

I just cross e $10k ARR crossed with Swipefast.

That young, scared, and doubtful 7 year old boy who questioned everything?

The one who had the wildest dreams?

The one who lived in so much uncertainty…

But wanted to pursue his heart?

You made him really fucking proud 😭

how beautiful is this? 😭

helumi just crossed $1k mrr.
next goal: $10k mrr. let's gooo

founder of Sentry also posted about hitting $100M ARR after a decade.

I've been enjoying my bootstrapped journey and growing at my own pace... but it would be cool if that pace was a little faster

I feel like I’m @paulg right now.

A consumer agentic company I advised through @intro has grown to $22M in ARR in three month and their retention is 2x better than the closest competitor. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen.

And it’s not a data broker.

SaaS is dead.

I'm doing $15k MRR with .md files.

We scaled to $150K MRR with a UGC farm.

First few months: ~0 views.

The fix wasn't better scripts. It was better creators.

Here's how I find my competitors' best creators and DM them on autopilot 👇

Comment "SPY CREATORS" and I'll DM you the top 10 creators working for your competitors.

built an agency to over $3m ARR

now exploring the AI data market

the funny thing is that the skills that matter most are still the same

finding customers

building relationships

getting people to trust you

building a strong team of engineers

technology changes so quickly but business is still business

Sentry hit $100M ARR (a few years ago). It took us almost a decade.

Its ok if you didn't get there in one quarter, or two quarters, or like us, ~fourty quarters. As long as the means to get there are sustainable, and the revenue is actually _recurring_.

Its a marathon.

One founder built an AI startup making $160K a year in profit by letting people ask questions about their data.

And they run the entire business themselves.

Pretty incredible!

The founder built an AI analytics tool that connects to spreadsheets, databases, and business apps.

Users can literally ask questions in plain English and get charts, reports, and dashboards in seconds.

And the numbers are impressive.

> $248K TTM revenue
> $160K TTM profit
> $248K ARR
> 1,000–5,000 customers
> 64% profit margins
> Bootstrapped

Founded in 2023 with no employees.

Revenue is down 19% annually, but the business is still generating six figures in profit.

Now the founder is asking just $400K for the entire business.

Pretty wild what one person can build with AI and a laptop.

Now live on @acquiredotcom.

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